Ellipsis

During editing, I've been reading up on ellipsis. The narrative device dictates that the audience doesn't need to see the entirety of an action to understand what has happened. For example, man doesn't need to be seen standing up from a chair, walking across a room, opening a door and walking out of it for us to understand that he has left the room.

Hopefully I can make good use of this in my edit.

Here's the article I've been reading:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ellipsis_(narrative_device)