In professional productions, the applied 180-degree rule is an essential element for a style of film editing called continuity editing.

Dissolves are most common in classic cinema (see continuity editing), but are now less often used.

The director also plays with other aspects of continuity editing, such as subverting the 180 degree rule and shot reverse shot.

The film employed various innovative techniques such as jump cuts, character asides and breaking the eyeline match rule in continuity editing.

This key element of this invisible filmmaking lies in continuity editing.

Rather "loose" plots and a lack of continuity editing made most early films rife with such errors.

Match cuts form the basis for continuity editing, such as the ubiquitous use of match on action.

Classical style is fundamentally built on the principle of continuity editing or "invisible" style.

The main principle in this film style is continuity editing, where editing, camera, and sound should be considered "invisible" to the viewers.

The other two are recreations of the execution with actors, cut together in an early example of continuity editing.