A Study of Transitional Object in Moving Image Continuity Editing

Abstract

In time-based visual media, logical coherence is achieved by cutting to continuity, which emphasizes a seamless transition of time and space. Moving images incorporate visual and audio continuity into a more complex symbolic editing which also tries to show the psychological impact of shots by transitional objects. The radical montage editing technique relies on a visual association of ideas between shots rather than an association of simple physical action for its continuity. It has become increasingly clear that traditional theories of visual editing methods, which grew spontaneously over the years, need to be reexamined and related to the established discipline of visual design elements. Among many editing methods, the Gestalt principles of perception, such as object similarity, often convey textual meaning exquisitely through symbolic and metaphoric nuance rather than through the more pictorial methods of motif collection or technical aspect. Throughout this study, visual references that contain a film object as an editorial purpose are shown for vivid gestalt grouping experience. Films are also categorized using various methods and based on psychological editing implied in the film’s storytelling. The editing which results from object similarity reduces complexity and reinforces the storytelling relatedness regardless of the content’s complicated time and space’s compositional order. Over the years, a considerable degree of editing technology has been developed in the semiotic visual media, especially in cinematography and editing, as to whether it is possible to dissolve visual media criticism and moving image aesthetics into a special and time province of the general science of visual storytelling continuity. If the concept of visual design elements is to be used in the cinematic text, it must be used scientifically through suggestive metaphoric and symbolic visual language. The metaphoric continuation and its meaning should keep pace with and respond to the message that the creator intends to suggest in the storytelling as changes and developments in the study of other media, other arts, and other modes of communication.