New Technique, New Convention• The technique by which a modern film is able totranscend real time and real space is what we might call'elliptical editing'.• Here, a chunk of real-time action is removed betweenshots (in reality, it is probably never even photographedat all) and it is connected with the following shot bymeans of a simple edit in which we simply 'cut' to thenext piece of continuous action within the same scene.• The audience understand this by narrative and filmicconvention.