The Flow of Time
Sequential composition explores the way a story’s events take place over a specific amount of time. The use of cinematic language and traditional techniques used in editing can be incorporated into the stories to tell them in a more comprehensible and meaningful way.
The process of continuity editing has been used to make logical sense of the time and space in the world that is being explored. Using motion vectors and indexes can help preserve the viewer’s knowledge of logical and theoretical sense of space between each scene.
Both sides of continuity, including graphic and temporal, are used in projects to help aid in making smooth transitions between scenes and the plot’s manipulation of story time. Temporal ellipsis can condense time in order to have the ability to leave out unimportant information that might lead the audience's attention in a different, unrelated direction.
Discontinuity is used to create anticipation and anxious feelings. Breaking away from spatial continuity can be an interesting bet since it relies on the imagination of the person watching. Spacing out the use of event duration and repetitions allows the creator to tell the difference between actual story time and the time it’s shown on screen.
Montages can be incorporated to help the audience members connect and/or identify with the subject discussed. There are two types of montage, conceptual and sequential. Conceptual involves merging two different ideas to create a separate, third idea. Sequential tells the stories in condensed components to show the original cause-and-effect order. It interrupts the implied flow of time by stopping the story to focus on a specific alternative event or action taking place.