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Of course, once a film is edited it has a canonical order. When editing a film there are no intrinsic rules about shot order, however. Even in more conservative styles of film making, for instance classical Hollywood cinema, the formal rules are reguarly broken (knowingly or otherwise). The point is simply that when presented with a series of shots that are to be edited together there are numerous possibilities not only for the order but also which shots, and then how much of which shots, are to be included. These are analogous to what Moulthrop (1992) has described as granularity. In hypertext one also has to decide where within a node a link is to appear, and it is not unreasonable to think of a densely linked node as being 'granularised'. In some ways this is the experience of such work where links are visually marked - a page with many links is a different cognitive experience to a page with no visible links.
Adrian Miles: Hypertext syntagmas: cinematic narration with links
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