Theories #4: Bordwell and Thompson’s (2001), Four categories of Film Editing:

TEMPORAL

Conerns time of action and contributes to the plots' manipulation of story time - order, duration and frequency
The ORder of presentation of events can be manipulated = changes in story-plot relations which interrupt temporal order.
Example: Flashbacks (to past events) increases storyw knowledge and flashforwards (to future events) creating enigma.
Duration of story events within the plot can be altered via use of ellispis (presents action in less screen time than within story)

Ellipsis:

• Punctuation shot change e.g. dissolve, wiple and fade signals ommision of time
• Empty frame e.g. figure of interest seen moving out of a frame, cuts to empty frame where figure moves into it
• Cutaway e.g. figure moves into it
• Cutaway a shot of another event elsewhere that does not last as long on the ommited action

The frequency of events in continuity editing tend to be shown only once. Repetition can provide a powerful tool for building tension and expectation often to show explosive action