In the opening bank robbery scene the director uses parallel editing in this scene. Cross-cut editing was used to show the simultaneous events in this first action scene. In this scene you have the robbers outside of the bank, the police out front of the bank and the S.W.A.T. team going into the bank. You first see what is going on in the bank with the robbers, and then you are taken outside where the police are in a gunfight with the robbers outside. Then you see another shot of the S.W.A.T team entering the bank. All of these shots are alternating to give the audience the idea that all these things are happening at once. This scene probably lasted 30 minutes but with juxtaposing these shots it intensified the suspense and action and also reduced the time.
Another example of editing seen in S.W.A.T is cutting to continuity. In this scene Hondo (Samuel L. Jackson) is asking Street (Collin Farrell) to drive him around to find the new S.W.A.T recruits. In this scene you see them getting into the car, driving downtown, eating a hot dog, leaving downtown, interviewing a recruit and then driving back to the police station. These shots were arranged to persevere the fluidity of the scene without showing all of it. Again, this scene probably took 30 minutes but with this style of editing it was condensed to 15 seconds and yet nothing essential was left out.
Toward the end of the movie you have three of the S.W.A.T members in a car with the international terrorist. At this point in the movie one of the S.W.A.T. members turns on the others and decides to help the terrorist escape. Instead of doing a long shot of the characters in the car, the director does a breakup of shots of each character. This sequence shot is showing the reaction of each individual S.W.A.T member instead of the reaction of the whole group. Each of their reactions are different and in these sequence shots the director was able to capture it.
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