Manipulation of diegetic time and space

Manipulation of diegetic time is when a director uses specific shots to make time seem slower or faster or to take us through time itself. Using a scene where a object is coming closer to a character can be used to slow time down as the object can almost always reaching its destination without it actually reaching it. An example of making time seem faster is the use of montages, a montage can cut down a twenty minuet scene in to a two minuet scene by only showing fast important points. An example of taking the view through time would be flash backs and flash forwards showing the viewer what happened earlier to a character or what a character is going to do later on.

Manipulation of diegetic space is when a director uses different lenses or shot sizes to make a scene seem bigger or smaller. An example of changing space would be the level of focus there is on an object, this is called deep or shallow focus.