Discontinuous editing describes the deliberate or accidental violation of rules of continuity when editing films. Continuity editing is the predominant style of editing in Narrative cinema and television Film editing is an art of storytelling practiced by connecting two or more shots together to form a sequence, and the subsequent connecting of sequences to form an As a deliberate technique, it may be used to connote authenticity or to create alienation. The distancing effect (from the German Verfremdungseffekt) or alienation effect, is a theatrical and cinematic device coined by Playwright The viewer's expectation of continuity can be violated by such methods as changing image size or tone between shots, changing direction or changing shots before the viewer has time to recognize what is happening . [1] It is also known as montage editing, and employs a series of often rapid and non-matching cuts which creates a style the audience is conspicuously aware of,[2] or alternatively that create uneven and unpredictable rhythms and emphasize the rapidity of movement between images [3]
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- ^ Goldman, Robert; Stephen Papson (August 1994). Soviet montage theory is an approach to understanding and creating cinema that relies heavily upon editing ( montage is French for "putting together" A jump cut is a cut in Film editing where the middle section of a continuous shot is removed and the beginning and end of the shot are then joined together "Advertising in the Age of Hypersignification (reprint)". Advertising in the Age of Hypersignification," Theory, Culture & Society 11,3: pp. 23-53.
- ^ http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/jeanrenoir/Film%20&%20Narrative%20handout.htm
- ^ hyperreal encoding