Manipulation of diegetic time and space is the editing technique when time is portrayed un-usually it can be used in films and music. It can be flashbacks, flashforward and the speed either making it slow down or speed up the film that it features in. For example. They could film hours of getting ready for a night out of a date, and compress hours into seconds. Another example when a character is growing, they put years into an hour or half an hour. Editors do this so that they can make a storyline of a film move along quicker.
