However certain shots could be arranged in different ways to give the viewer a different scenario. For instance, lets say shot A is a shot of a man staring at the floor and looking up in surprise, and shot B is a shot of another man pulling out a gun and firing it towards the camera. If the sequence was shot A first followed by shot B, the order would imply that the first man was shot. However if the sequence was shot B followed by shot A, it would appear as if the man fired a gun and the man from the first shot was watching the gun being fired.
When the editor has hundreds of scenes, the editor has a lot of control over the basic continuity and message of the production. Changing swapping two shots with each other means that the audience will perceive the message in that scene in a completely different manner.
Continuity editing mainly suggests showing the audience a sequence in events, during which you show them what they want to see, when they want to see it. At the end of the series of events, you will have told a story or shown a series of events as well as shown the conclusion.
Occasionally the film makers will want to leave the audience hanging for dramatic effect by not showing them what they want to see, for example, if a character checks her phone and pulls a shocked face, the viewers will want to know what was on the screen of the phone. However the film makers will leave the viewers wondering up until a point in the story in which they will find out what was on the screen.
The short extract above is from the film Tsotsi (2005). In the clip, the characters are first shown walking up onto the ground floor from an underground train platform. One of the characters is shown staring at a man who clearly has money, after which the man walks onto a train and the main characters follow him. The main characters then proceed to rob and kill the man. The shots are all in order, showing a series of events that tell a story. The first shot is an establishing shot which is common for continuity editing.
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