Classical continuity editing the predominant form of editing in TV and Film.
That DOESN'T mean its the ONLY form of editing.
Expose yourself... to other forms.
Check out, for a moment, some early Man Ray. This guy predated MTV by about sixty years. He was an artist, interested in rhythm and pace and emotion and he created this.
What can you learn from this? That you dislike, or possibly hate French artists from the 1920s? But think about most modern film title sequences, they are laced with this non-narrative out of focus screen saver-ish type of beauty.
Man Ray, I suspect, was an artist and therefore interested not in telling 'stories' but in revealing something about ourselves by dipping into our subconscious.
How to do that? By taking us back to our early days, when the world was just colour and sound and blur without much meaning. Could that have been his reasoning? Is that how screen savers and other effects work - because they relax us or do something to our mind?
The other question, which the Russians tried to answer (more on them later) is how far can film go to get under your skin and into your mind? How powerful is the image?
The answer already been answered. It's all powerful. So powerful it is normal and we rarely question it anymore.
What can you do with that as an Editor?
Sorry, this should've been about continuity editing.
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