Film Language Tag: constructive editing

The ways in which the joining of two shots yielded an effect or meaning not evident in either shot alone. For example, the implication through editing that characters or objects shot individually are interacting with one another despite never including the relevant visual elements in the same frame. To make a space appear continuous without ever showing that it is. Adapted from Bordwell, David. On the History of Film Style. Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press, 1997.