Creating pace

Creating pace usually happens by moving from longer takes to shorter takes,  from few cuts in a given stretch of film time to many cuts in a given stretch of film times.



Here is an example of a scene from the departed where it starts of with a few amount of cuts to several cuts when the more dramatic scene came on. In the beginning tension was building where the cuts were slow and not many of them but as soon as the body drops from the roof and the men start coming out the building the number of cuts tend to increase which makes the scene move at a quicker pace.