Preview: The Scene: Unit of Time and Space
A scene is the cinematic unity of time and space. A scene consists of one or more shots of an event that takes place during a certain period of time and on a certain location. A script is the chronological listing of scenes that underlies the movie story from the beginning until the end.
There are four ways of interpreting time and space that mark the boundaries of a movie scene:

1. Same Space - Same Time
2. Leap in Space - Same Time
3. Same Space - Leap in Time
4. Leap in Space - Leap in Time.

Preview: Same Space - Leap in Time
The following excerpt from Notting Hill (1999), Roger Michell shows how to bridge a full year by using the characteristics of the four seasons. At first glance the scene looks like one long shot of 95 seconds. But presumably there are two shots where the splice is at the blue coat around second 66.

Place of action is a market street. The actor Hugh Grant walks through the street while the seasons are changing. Within the shot you can recognize little hidden stories. You can see a pregnant woman at the beginning of the take (1a). At the end she has given birth to the child and holds it in her arms (1b). A young couple in love are walking along the market booths (2a). At the end of the shot they have a fight and break up (2b).