Cross-cutting

A parallel editing or cross- cutting or changing interface (English cross-cutting ) is a technique in film editing in which repeated between two or more lines of action of a film is back and hergeschnitten.

Parallel montages make a connection between two or more independent spatially disparate action segments dar. Usually find these events in the diegesis of the film, at the same place. However, the cross -section also acts that take place at different times to merge, and thereby establish an emotional connection. Parallel montages thus serve mostly the voltage increase.

The director D. W. Griffith is one of the pioneers of this technology in the U.S. cinema by making them in 1909, inter alia, has been used in the films The Country Doctor and A Corner in Wheat. However, the parallel montage was already earlier, for example, in The Great Train Robbery (1903 ), are used.

Examples

• A Corner in Wheat (1909 ): This film contains three episodes, which are alternately shown in parallel montage. The events intersect, on a purely practical level, in any way. At this time, political films were not welcome, a film could be released with A Corner in Wheat, where the viewer only through the use of parallel editing, itself creates the political connection.
• In The Fifth Element repeatedly parallel montages are applied. The screenwriter and director Luc Besson, this together in a way that some part thereof sentences are terminated by distant people in a humorous way.