Time compression / Ellipsis
Watch as an animation →Cut out the unnecessary middle to shrink a long stretch of time into a few seconds.
Departure to arrival, morning to evening, skipping across many years.
Handle changes in time and weather between cuts. Change one of the light, the clothes or the props so it reads as "time has passed", and join with a dissolve or a cut on the beat.
Three-shot sequence with a locked camera on the same cafe window table, hard cuts, 1.5 seconds each: Shot 1, morning, an empty table with a steaming coffee cup; Shot 2, afternoon light, the cup half empty and a notebook open; Shot 3, night, a lamp on and a stack of finished pages. Only light and props change.
Washed Out — The Hardest Part (Paul Trillo, decades compressed into 4 minutes with Sora)