Seamless, is an editing style and is referred to as classic Hollywood continuity editing and its principle aims is to make the mechanics of the editing process invisible to the viewer.
Good continuity 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 '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 erroneously across a cut breaks continuity and leads to editing which is not seamless.
Any unit of action that does not match properly across a cut also breaks continuity and this again leads to editing which isn't seamless.
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