Fast & Slow Cutting

Fast Cutting

It is a film editing technique which refers to several consecutive shots of a brief duration (e.g. 3 seconds or less). It can be used to convey a lot of information very quickly, or to imply either energy or chaos. Fast cutting is also frequently used when shooting dialogue between two or more characters, changing the viewer's perspective to either focus on the reaction of another character's dialog, or to bring to attention the non-verbal actions of the speaking character. One famous example of fast cutting is the murder-scene in Alfred Hitchcock's film Psycho (1960).

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Slow Cutting

It is a film editing technique which uses shots of long duration. Though it depends on context, it is estimated that any shot longer than about fifteen seconds will seem rather slow to viewers from Western cultures. A famous example of slow cutting can be found in Stanley Kubrick's A Clockwork Orange (1971). In a segment that lasts three minutes and fifteen seconds and contains only three shots, the main character (Alex de Large) is followed as he walks the length of a futuristic record store, meets two young ladies, and brings them back to his (parents') house. Another example is Alfred Hitchcock's film Rope (1948) consisting of only eight cuts. Each cut lasts about as long as a full 1000 foot roll of 35 mm film (about 10 minutes). And of course, the prime-beef of slow-cutting being Russian Ark, which consisted of one long two hour plus shot.