This week we have focused on these editing terms:
Montage - a succession of shots, varied distance and take length, that condense a period of time into a short and watchable package. They often show background information (as in The Street or Criminal Justice) or character development that would take too long to show in real time. They are often accompanied by music to heighten their significance. They often finish when the music fades or stops.
Ellipsis - where time is left out and we have moved forward several hours, days, months or years. There is an ellipsis cut in the bedroom scene in The Street signified by the change in ambient sound from the faint juke box to near silence broken by a single distant car.
Parallel editing or parallel action - where two stories are happening at the same time but in different places. This was seen in Criminal Justice and there was a very good example in the whole structure of this week's new BBC drama Paradox.
Crosscutting - is the type of cut that moves the action from one parallel action sequence to the other - and back again.
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