Elliptical editing is a form of editing used in film which allows a duration on screen to be shorter than it actually is, cutting out the unnecessary parts to make it shorter. This technique is primarily used in film when a character is travelling somewhere yet the footage would be too boring for the audience to watch the full duration of their distance, so elliptical editing is used to cut out the uninteresting, boring parts with still showing the audience that they have travelled somewhere.
An example of this choice of editing is in Batman Begins in which Bruce Wayne is making a huge journey which in real time would take hours but in fact is just shortened to one minutes and thirty eight seconds. This is used very well as even though the clip is so short as an audience we can still gather the fact that this is a very gruelling and long journey that he is making.
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