Editing

Editing- The stage in which you make changes/corrections and where sound and pictures are organised to create a narrative, part of the film making process. 

•Continuity

When the editing makes the action seem continuous. 

•Continuity Editing

–180 degree rule

–Match on action (match cuts)

–Shot reverse shot

–Eye-line match

–Cross cutting

•Insert shot

•Cutaway

•Pace

•Time

•Transitions

•Special Effects

•Montage Editing

•http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ggFKLxAQBbc

Cutting on action 0:04 

Cut 0:05

Match cut 0:07

Shot reverse shot 0:12

0:28 drink changes

0:35 wine bottle appears on the table

0:37 Tv is on and salt and pepper has moved and so has the herb pot

0:40 there are 2 wine bottles on the table

0:44 he's wearing a different shirt and there are three bottles on the table

180 degree rule is where you establish what side the characters are facing and so you orientate the audience. 

Match on action 

•Is multiple cuts to show one continuous action. 

•Match on action is part of invisible editing which creates flow when watching a scene.

•The cuts MATCH together so that the audience know it is one action.

•Shot reverse shot is when a shot goes from shot A, shot B, shot A, shot B etc.

•It goes continuously back and forth between the 2 shots to show there is a connection

between them

It is often used in conversations so you see what both characters are saying

•It is a form of eye-line matching if the character is looking at someone and the next shot is

what they look at 

•Imagine if a conversation was just 1 shot of character A and you didn’t see character B’s face

at all?

Shot A: character is looking off screen

Shot B: what character is looking at

Is a following shot that follows what character is looking at, makes cuts smoother the audience expects the cut to happen and is eager to see what happens next/what character sees.

Example,

a)A person’s phone rings, she turns and looks in direction of phone

b)Close up shot of phone ringing

Cross Cutting

•Technique of continuously alternating 2 or more scenes that often happen

simultaneously (at same time) but in different locations.

•As they cross, pace gradually gets faster and fast and tension builds

•Often the parallel scenes will intersect to create a climax. 

Insert shot

•In film, an insert is a shot of part of a scene as filmed from a different angle and/or focal 

length from the master shot (original/establishing shot). Inserts cover action already 

covered in the master shot, but emphasize a different aspect of that action due to the 

different framing. 

•An insert differs from a cutaway as cutaways cover action not covered in the master

shot.

Example

–CLOSE-UP of the gunfighter,

–INSERT of his hand quivering above the holster,

–TWO SHOT of his friends watching anxiously,

–INSERT of the clock ticking.

My first attempt at editing was on the whole a pretty successful one. I've cut and

moulded each clip so that the film, on the whole, runs pretty smoothly and continuously. 

Some of the transitions I've used however, are quite tacky. Once I have become

comfortable with the soft wear i believe that will improve. 

J-cut- sound is heard before the visual starts