Editors can manipulate viewer’s perception of the flow of time.

When editing objects, it is

important to keep the direction of the screen constant. One way that you can make sure that you
don’t run into screen direction problems is to stay on one side of a moving object. The 180° rule
will make sure that you will not have direction problems while editing the film. Sometimes you
want different objects to go in different screen directions. The use of screen direction to tell us
stories goes beyond the old western and war movies. The compression of time is done so often
that viewers don’t notice it when watching a tv show or movie. But it is a critical part of
storytelling. Filmmakers also have the ability to expand time when it suits their purpose. Another
trick that editors have is to make it seem that two separate scenes are happening at the same time.
That technique is known as parallel editing. Parallel editing can an effective editing tool.