Continuity editing
As well as the technological requirements needed to edit together two shots, there are subtle but more important basic editing conventions to be satisfied if the viewer is to remain unaware of shot transition. It would be visually distracting if the audience’s attention was continually interrupted by every change of shot.
Moving images in film or television are created by the repetition of individual static frames. It is human perception that combines the separate images into a simulation of movement. One reason this succeeds is that the adjacent images in a shot are very similar. If the shot is changed and new information appears within the frame (e.g. what was an image of a face is now an aeroplane), the eye/brain takes a ...
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