Film editing techniques are relying more and more on quick cuts and shorter camera lag times and jerky movements, simulated hand-held camera motion and shorter scenes, and fades and dissolves are being replaced by abrupt cuts. Sometimes, you start hearing dialog from the next scene even before the last scene ends! And have you seen how a woman's scream will instantly morph to a train whistle? Supposedly, this appeals more to younger viewers who have shorter attention spans and who lose interest when the camera lingers too long on an interesting face or beautiful landscape. Its video game perception, and young adults are where the money is, as far as advertisers are concerned. They are the ones who spend the money on what is being advertised.

Studies on commercials and film cinematography have documented and quantified these new techniques, its what is being taught in film schools, they have been used to cram more content into shorter time spans, and to ensure that people's minds don't wander or get bored--or think too much about what they are being sold.

We're old farts, we're not used to this frantic editing, its not part of our cinematographic experience, we find it disorienting, or annoying, once we realize what they are doing and why. But Gen Xers and Millenials are comfortable with it, in fact, they expect it.

We are being monitored and studied so they can sell to us more effectively, which affects how programming is put together and the film maker's vocabulary. Show kids today a film by Kubrick, like "2001", or "Barry Lyndon", with its long, slow scenes, deliberate pacing and meticulous visual development and gradual transformation, and the kids just lose interest. Its what they call BOR-ING.