Unit 7: Editing: Discontinuity

Question 1

Editing: Discontinuity, Self-Reflexivity, and Intertextuality

Answer 1

•Continuity
-invisible editing
•Alternatives to Continuity editing (discontinuity editing)
-visible editing
•Soviet Montage
•disjunctive/distantiation

Question 2

Disjunctive Editing

Answer 2

A variety of alternative editing practices that call attention to the cut through spatial
tension, temporal jumps or graphic pattern so as to affect viscerally, disorient of
intellectually engage the viewer.

Question 3

Distantiation

Answer 3

showing parts that were put together to form the completed work so that it could not be
consumed without thinking.

Question 4

Distantiation achieved through

Answer 4

alienation effects
–jump cut
–continuity breaks
–emphasis on fragmentation

Question 5

Elliptical editing

Answer 5

Shot transitions that omit parts of an event, causing an ellipsis in plot and story duration

Question 6

Jump Cut

Answer 6

An elliptical cut that appears to be an interruption of a single shot. Either the figures seem
to change instantly against a constant background, or the background changes instantly
while the figure remains constant.

Question 7

Freeze Frame:

Answer 7

A still picture in the course of a movie or television film, made by running a series of
identical frames

Question 8

Reflexivity:

Answer 8

A tendency to call attention to the fact that the film is an artifact or an illusion.

Question 9

Intertextuality

Answer 9

A critical approach that holds that a text depends on other, related texts for its full
meaning.

Question 10

Interextual references

Answer 10

references to other films or works of art.

Question 11

Hollywood montage

Answer 11

usually reserved to denote
thematically linked sequences and sequences that show the passage of time by using
quick sets of cuts or other devices, such as dissolves, wipes, and superimpositions, to
bridge spatial or temporal discontinuities

Question 12

Analytical Editing

Answer 12

•typically there is an establishing shot before the action is broken down into detail shots.
•the scene is analyzed or broken down by the camera to direct attention from the general
perspective to increasingly more specific views

Question 13

Constructive Editing

Answer 13

•directors create a scene entirely out of separate areas of space, without ever showing a
master framing (establishing shot).

Question 14

Intensified Continuity

Answer 14

• A type of continuity editing
• Associated with Hollywood film production
• Brief average shot lengths (ASL)
• ASL 2 to 3 seconds on average

Question 15

Intensified Continuity (stylistic choices)

Answer 15

• use of telephoto and zoom lens
• multiple cameras
• tend to use ‘walk and talk’ with steadicam rather than shot/reverse shot
• handheld or steadicam shots that circle or follow the actors
• establishing shot appears at the end of a scene