Continuity editing is the dominant style of film editing in the western world and most cinematic cultures around the rest of the globe. Its purpose it to 'smooth' over the essential discontinuity of the process of editing and to establish a logical coherence between sequences and the constitutive shots from which they are composed.
The act of cutting represents a detraction from the continuous progression of a piece of action in real time. Removing or adding frames condenses or expands the time of the original action. If we cut from one angle to another there is a noticeable break from the continuous action of the first take to the new shot. The task on continuity editor is to reduce that noticeability, so that the viewer's immersion in the story is undisturbed.
Continuity editing is a process which attempts to make deviations from the continuous real time action of a single stretch of footage as inconspicuous as possible.
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