Editing Introduction

Editing is the process of looking at all the footage shot during the making of a film/TV programme and placing it in the desired order and joining it together.

Two key areas to concentrate on when editing are;

1. Speed of editing- how long does each shot last.
2. Style of editing- how each shot is joined together to the next?

The speed of editing will help to determine the mood of whats taking place on screen.
If the audience feels anxiety and suspense the editing will be quick- the scenes/shots will change frequently. For example in an action sequence.

As the film progresses scenes may become shorter as the editing cuts between telling two or more story lines at the same time.

It is important to consider;

1.How quickly or slow the shot appears as sequences

2. How long they appear on the screen for.


Style of Editing

- How shots are linked together.
- The movement from one shot to the next is called a transition.


Straight Cut

- Most common and "invisible" form of transitions.
- One shot moves in spontaneously to the next without attracting the audiences attention.
 Straight cuts help retain reality. They do not break the viewers suspension of disbelief.


Dissolves

-Fading on shot off the screen while another shot is fading in

- The audience will be able to see both shots on the screen on the mid-point of the dissolve.

- Used if the film maker wants to show a connection between two characters, places or objects.

Fades

- A gradual darkening of lightening of an image until it becomes black or white.

- One shot will fade until only a black or white screen can be seen.

- used to indicate the end of a particular section of time within the narrative.

- can show the passing of time

Wipes

-One image is pushed off the screen by another

- images can be pushed left or right

- used to signal a movement between different locations that are experiencing at the same time.

Jump Cut
- a jump cut is where the audience's attention is brought into focus on something very sudden

- this occurs by breaking the continuity editing

-this is also known as discontinuity

- it appears as if a section of the sequence has been removed

- used to startle the view and to draw attention to something.