Combining shots into sequences

There are two reasons you combine shots into sequences, one can be for continuity, making the cuts seem like they're not there or the other could be to intellectually challenge the viewer, to make the audience think about why certain cuts have been made.




The clip above is an example of how combining shots into sequences is for continuity. In this clip you can't tell where the cuts are because you are focused on the action, the cuts have been made for continuity rather than to intellectually challenge the viewer.




This clip is an example of how combining shots into sequences is to intellectually challenge the viewer whats going on. So the audience will really have to think about what each shot means because there are some shots that don't quite fit the sequence but have been put there for a reason.



Shots of Kerensky are juxtaposed of a mechanical peacock which is an editorial technique which contrasts with continuity. After the Kerensky shot the peacock is shown which goes against the continuity of the Kerensky shot and makes the audience think why has the peacock been placed there.



In each of these sequences several shots are used and shots are assembled in different ways for different purposes, Sometimes shots are assembled to make the most of the production value sometimes they are assembled to excite and engage the audience, or they are put togeteher to challenge the audience intellectually. The resulting sequence preserves continutity and the effect is that both editorial technique and the cuts themselves become invisible and at other times we are acutely aware of the editing technique of the cuts, and of some sort of meaning being created through juxtaposition