Elliptical Editing

Elliptical Editing

Elliptical editing is a technique in which inessential shots are cut out of the film in order for the on-screen duration to be shorter than the story's duration. There any many types of skills that can be used in elliptical editing. The one most commonly used is a cut between two different shots, which both show a part of the same event. The cut between the two shots allows the editor to reduce the time of the event on screen by bypassing a part of it.

Elliptical editing allows us to control the pace of the story. For example a lengthy uninteresting circumstance that would take a while can be edited down using elliptical editing so that the audience only has to sit through a few minutes. It also allows us to get rid of the dreary shots that might make the viewers become bored.

Elliptical editing is used in almost every movie in some way. Many films use this to shorten down journey times where a character is travelling a large distance; so what would be an hour journey would only be a few minutes, which stops the audience becoming uninterested and keeps their attention.

We used elliptical editing in our preliminary task: