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In this 1960’s interview on of cinema’s masters talks through 3 different style of editing.
Montage – he describes this as more assembly than cutting as mosaic. He references the the famous shower scene of “Psycho”. I would be impossible just to show a nude woman being violently stabbed on scene. But by stylistically assembling little suggestive shots the effect is achieved. this scene used approx 78 shots in 45 seconds.
Orcestral: Here Hitchcock talk about how he varied shot length to create impact and shock. As it the 2nd murder in “Psycho”
Finally Hitchcock explains it alos the order of film and context that sets the meaning as Eisenstein did before, what you place in-between identical shots changes the impression. From kindly old gentleman to dirty old man for example.