Multiple Points of View

Multiple points of view, it is quite simply what it states, the use of multiple points of view within a film, many people get this confused with just a lot of cuts within a scene, but it isn't. The best example I can use to describe this is Roshomon, directed by Akira Kurosawa. He used on a set multiple cameras to film the same scene, he is quoted saying "Film the film freely and splice together the pieces which have caught the action forcefully, as if flying from one piece to another.". 

The first two to three minutes of this clip portrait the paragraph above very well, and whilst there isn't many cuts it is more of a free flowing powerful introduction.