Elliptical editing is the technique used in films and media to show the passage of time by cutting two scenes together and editing out the journey from one place to another.
One example of this would be right here in which rather than walking through the entirety of the house like previously, the characters appear to walk back in to the house and are then upstairs, making it apparent that they walked from outside to upstairs
An example of this in a short film would be in Bottle Rocket where the characters are walking to a house and rather than showing the whole process of walking to the house, the scene is edited so a little bit of the scene is walking, then a cut to the characters jumping over a fence and finally a cut to the characters inside the house closing the door, making it obvious that they broke in but without showing the whole process of that in order to save time.
An example of this in a short film would be in Bottle Rocket where the characters are walking to a house and rather than showing the whole process of walking to the house, the scene is edited so a little bit of the scene is walking, then a cut to the characters jumping over a fence and finally a cut to the characters inside the house closing the door, making it obvious that they broke in but without showing the whole process of that in order to save time.
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