In film, editing is very important as it can make you edit a film in any way you want such as cutting out things that you don't want in your film and adding sequences together to make a series of events that you shot in a week, look like it all happened in a day. Editing can be a whole range of things such as slowing down set movements which makes things appear in slow-motion or adding special effects such as the title or writing on the screen and explosions and computer generated image ( CGI ) where you can add anything in your film through a computer. People who edit are called editors and they are mainly used to edit films such as cutting clips and adding images and then putting sequences together to make a film.
This is one of the older black and white films and is an example of bad editing as you can clearly see when the shot ends and then the screen blacks out before going to a new shot and this will slow down the story and keep the film boring.
Continuity Editing
Continuity Editing is a style of film editing and video editing used in the post-production of filmaking. The reason continuity editing is used is so that the discontinuity can be smoothed over and to edit shots together to make a sequence of events happen straight after each other and to get footage which was shot in a week and fit it into a few minutes of film. Continuity editing helps the film to flow through sequences and events and this keeps the audience engaged with the story and understand what is happening in the film. Editors put clips together to make a film and so when watching one clip, it smoothes into the next clip without pause so the audience understand what is going on in the film and can follow the sequence of events. Continuity editing is important in filmaking and good for the story and plot as it doesn't get confusing plus in modern film you cannot notice the changes when a clip cuts into the next. With continuity editing you can suggest to the audience that the camera simply changes angles during a single event when really its a series of different shots. Also match on action is when something happens in the scene and when there is a cut then this shows to the audience that the action is still going on and is an important part in helping the audience to keep up and understand what is happening. This is an example of continuity editing.
Continuaty editing is divided up into two categories:
Temporal editing
This is when you connect shots together in order to create and support a narrative so the audience will not get confused with the plot of the film and to keep the flow going between shots. The shots can be linear in order to create a simple linear progression in a film or can include flashbacks or flash forwards to show the audience that a significant amount of time has passed from one shot to the next and also can improve on the narrative by showing what has happened in the past or what will happen in the future in a films narrative.
Spatial editing
This editing creates unified space through the editing. shots from different angles & framing. Shot / reverse shots. also kuleshove effect this also includes something known as parrelel editing.
180 degree rule
Reverse shot
this is a shot where the camera is placed behind a character who is looking off screen at another character and then the camera is placed behind the second character as if to show the second character is looking back at the first. This technique is used to show that the characters are looking in opposite directions at each other and this shows the audience that the two characters are facing each other.
year: 1949
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0041482/
Filmography: great train robbery
year: 1903
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0000439/
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