D.W. Griffith was a storyteller, who dreamed to become a writer and was well known for inventing the conventions of editing and continuity. Such as, the 180-degree rule, intercutting, eye match shots and establishing shots. He was the first to cut in to the shots and also play around with the different shot sizes. With all the editing techniques combined, he directed the first blockbuster film in 1915, which is known as ‘The Birth if a Nation’. In this film, Griffith was the first to cut into shots, where near the beginning we see one of the characters walking towards the horse and carts but in the next shot it is a mid-long shot of the same character talking to another, who is sitting in the cart. This then helps to combine the shots into
