Resumo

Cinematic rhythm is a complex phenomenon involving probably all cinematic parameters. This essay focuses on rhythmic structures in human behaviour as one of these parameters.
In face-to-face communication humans are normally both self-synchronized and interactionally synchronized.
Introducing discontinuity in established behavioural patterns, through editing,will most likely have an emotional effect on the audience response to scenes, even though the changes in the patterns are so small, or of such a character, that the audience do not consciously experience them.