Editing is the process for looking at all the different parts of the film or t.v programme and then placing the different parts in the right order you want it in to make what you want much better.
The speed of editing can change the way the viewers find how much tension as they would speed up the editing.If they wanted to give something like a romantic scene they would slow it down. they would also slow down the editing at the start of the film to set the scene of the story. Trailers of movies will have fast editing if it is a action packed film e.g. the man in the iron mask.
The speed of editing
Near the end of the movie it switches between charters to show their side of the story.
scenes at the beginning of a film (telling the beginning of the story) must be long enough for people to understand what the story is about and find out who the main character(s) are.
As the film progresses scenes may become shorter as the editing cuts between telling two or more story at the same time
A example of this is spiderman.
The first part where he is catching his bus this is setting the scene and showing the main characters
and at the end of the film it is changing between shots quicly showing the action of the fight.
No editing
this is where the shot is continues and never ends with no cuts or edits. a example of this is russian ark
Trailers
They are what introduce the films to people and show part of the film to the audience. this will make the audience look at the trailer and feel they want to watch it. a example of this is the man in the iron mask this advert makes a lot of people want to watch it.
Action sequence
This is the exciting part of the film with a lot of action which could be a gun fight sword fight where people will be fighting or even chasing someone across a certain area or even if it was just someone being attacked as shown in this scene from psycho.
Slow to fast editing
This is when the editing of the film starts of slow at the beginning of the film to introduce what is happening. then during the end of the film the editing of the film starts to speed up for the action or building tension.
style of editing
All shots are linked together in a certain way. The movement between one shot to another is called a transition.
Straight cut
This is the most common forms of transition.
One shot moves instantaneously to the next without attracting the person who is watching attention
straight cuts help retain reality. they do not want the viewer to break suspension of disbelief.
Dissolves
Fading one shot off the screen while a different shot is slowly fading in.
the audience will be able to see both of the shots will they are changing
Fades
A gradual darkening or lightening of an image until it becomes black or white
this is used to indicate the end of a particular section of time within the narrative. Also can show passing of time
A movie that uses all this is Citizen Kane
Wipes
One image is pushed off the screen by another image. images can move left or right (more common being pushed to the left-hand side as the movement is more consistent with the sense of time moving forward)
Signal a movement between different locations that experiencing the same time.
a example of this is star wars films.
Jump cut
A jump cut is where the audience's attention is brought into focus on something very suddenly
this occurs by breaking the continuity editing.
This is known as discontinuity
It appears as if a section of the sequence has been removed
A example of this is breathless 1960
Graphic match
The filmmaker can choose to place shots in a certain order so as to create a smooth visual transfer from one frame to the next. when two consecutive shots are matched in terms of the way they look it is called
A graphic match
A example of this is psycho of the eye. where it turns from the drain to the eye of the dead woman
Montage theory
lev kuleshov was among the very first to theorise about the relatively young medium of the cinema in the 1920s. He argued that editing a film is like constructing a building. sometime around 1918 a russiab director lev kuleshov conducted an experiment to prove this was true.
montage editing
contains many different images quickly edited together. images that do not provide a sense of the narrative moving forward - it still has full of meaning. rapid cuts force the viewers to consider the connections between the images being shown. there may not even
eye line match
this is when a person in the film is looking towards something then the camera switches towards what they are looking at.
match on action
this is when there is a lot of action happening and the camera follows the main part of the action.
continuity editing
this retains a scenes of realistic chronology and generates the feeling that time is moving forward. this could be the use of flashbacks/forward but the narrative will still be seen to be progressing forward in an realistic way
