Fast/Slow Cutting By: Robin Alexander

Definition of Fast and Slow Cutting Fast cutting is a film editing technique which refers to several consecutive shots of a brief duration (e.g. 3 seconds or less) Slow cutting is a film editing technique which uses shots of long duration.(6 seconds or more)

Movies That Have Fast Cutting One famous example of fast cutting is the shower scene in Alfred Hitchcock's film Psycho (1960). More recent examples include the Can-can scene in Baz Luhrmann's Moulin Rouge! (2001). The film Mind Game makes extensive use of fast cutting to convey hundreds of short scenes in the space of fifteen minutes. In Lola Rennt fast cutting is used to quickly tell stories about minor characters to show how the casual actions of the protagonists have profound impact on what happens to them.

Movies that have Slow Cutting A famous example of slow cutting can be found in Stanley Kubrick's A Clockwork Orange (1971).

My example of Slow Cutting

My example of Fast Cutting