Serious obstacles to this approach are the paucity of sampling sites and the lack of temporal continuity among observations from different locations.

Continuity editing can be divided into two categories: temporal continuity and spatial continuity.

The important ways to preserve temporal continuity are avoiding the ellipsis, using continuous diegetic sound, and utilizing the match on action technique.

The simplest way to maintain temporal continuity is to shoot and use all action involved in the story's supposed duration whether it be pertinent or not.

So although in many cases the ellipsis would prove necessary, elimination of it altogether would best preserve any film's temporal continuity.

Match on action technique can preserve temporal continuity where there is a uniform, unrepeated physical motion or change within a passage.

The montage technique is one that implies no real temporal continuity whatsoever.

Just as important as temporal continuity to overall continuity of a film is spatial continuity.

It is not concerned with the depiction of a comprehensible spatial or temporal continuity as is found in the classical Hollywood continuity system.

We reconstruct temporal continuity based on what is represented in the individual islands of consciousness.