Montage

film editing

Cross cutting is an editorial technique in which a narrative alternates between two or more spatially or temporally separate storylines, scenes, or actions. Rather than showing...

Film Theory & History

Sergei Eisenstein’s concept of montage redefined how filmmakers construct meaning by pairing images to generate ideas beyond what each shot contains. This guide explains the c...

film editing

An oblique cut is a cut in which the incoming and outgoing shots do not share consistent spatial or editorial relationships, producing a disjunction that signals a shift in time...