Editing Styles and Convention

Montage is the french term for 'putting together'



From Wikipedia
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Hollywood Montage - Montage is a technique in film editing in which a series of short shots are edited into a sequence to condense space, time, and information. It is usually used to suggest the passage of time.

Soviet Montage - Soviet montage theory is an approach to understanding and creating cinema that relies heavily upon editing (montage is French for "putting together"). Although Soviet filmmakers in the 1920s disagreed about how exactly to view montage, Sergei Eisenstein marked a note of accord in "A Dialectic Approach to Film Form" when he noted that montage is "the nerve of cinema", and that "to determine the nature of montage is to solve the specific problem of cinema".

The purpose on continuity editing is to make the editing in a scene seem smooth and seemless so the editingn isn't obvious.

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