Seamless

Seamless:

What is Seamless?

- When an editing style is referred to as classic Hollywood continuity editing. This is because one of you its principal aims is to make the mechanics of the editing process invisible to the viewer.
- Good continuity editing shouldn't draw attention to itself in any way. The viewer's focus and attention should not be taken away from the action, from the story. This aim of invisibility leads us to the term of reference [seamless].
- To be seamless, cuts should take on an invisible quality about them, the viewer should not notice them.
- To be seamless continuity in terms of all elements of mise-en-scene and all elements of action in the frame should be preserved perfectly from one clip or take to the next across the cut.
- Any mise-en-scene element such as the position of figure or object changing wrongly across cut breaks continuity and leads to editing which is not seamless.
- Any unit of action hat doesn't match properly across a cut also breaks continuity and this again leads to editing which is not seamless. 
- Breaking the 180 degree axis rule - or any of the associated rules will also result in continuity issues and undermine the goal of invisible editing. 

Here is an example of Seamless Editing:



References:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IFVfDpHzkAA (Seamless Editing Video)