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Editing Key

The document discusses various editing techniques used in film including: shots being edited together to create scenes and scenes edited together to tell a story. It notes that editing is a creative process that can make or break a film and influence its overall shape. Specific techniques covered include match cuts, continuity editing, jump cuts, montages, shot reverse shots, and the 180 degree rule. Editing is described as constructing a film like a puzzle or building by fitting individual shots together to form the overall picture for viewers.

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Editing Key

The document discusses various editing techniques used in film including: shots being edited together to create scenes and scenes edited together to tell a story. It notes that editing is a creative process that can make or break a film and influence its overall shape. Specific techniques covered include match cuts, continuity editing, jump cuts, montages, shot reverse shots, and the 180 degree rule. Editing is described as constructing a film like a puzzle or building by fitting individual shots together to form the overall picture for viewers.

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EDITING

TECHNIQUES FOR
FILM
The Editing Process

Shots are edited together to create scenes.


Scenes can be edited together to tell a story.
Editing
Many regard it as the
single most important
creative step in
determining the look an
shape of the finished film

Dede Allen - BONNIE AND CLYDE, REDS


A good editor can save a
poorly directed film

A bad editor can damage


the work of even the
finest director

Thelma Schoonmaker - RAGING BULL, THE DEPARTED,


CASINO
"... Editing is a lot about patience and
discipline and just banging away at
something, turning o the machine and
going home at night because you're
frustrated and depressed, and then
coming back in the morning to try again."
Watching a film is like putting
together a puzzle

Overall picture emerges when all


the little pieces have been fit
together
Each piece is a shot
When put together properly, the
viewer sees the whole picture and
not just the pieces
Lev Kuleshov
Kuleshov said that
editing a film was like
constructing a building.
Brick-by-brick (shot-
by-shot) the building
(film) is erected.

Kuleshov Experiment
Just
as two images joined together form a third meaning not
inherent in either of the two images alone
the way the many images making up a film are put together
creates a meaning not inherent in the individual shots
Viewers infer meaning based on context.

The viewers didn't


realize it, but the
emotion and the
story they felt
were the result of
the human need
to fill in the
blanks.
Editing Basics
Sample of EditingTechniques

1.% Master
2.% Match cut
3.% Continuity editing
4.% Jump Cut
5.% Montage
7.% Shot Reverse Shot
Master shot
A master shot is a film recording of an entire dramatized
scene, from start to finish, from an angle that keeps all the
players in view.

Usually, the master shot is the first shot checked o


during the shooting of a scene; it is the foundation of what
is called camera coverage, other shots that reveal dierent
aspects of the action.
NIGHT OF THE HUNTER
Match cut

It is a cut in film editing from one scene to another, in


which the two camera shots' compositional elements
match, helping to establish a strong continuity of
action.

It can be used to underline a connection between two


separate elements, or for purely visual reasons.
Continuity

Continuity editing can be divided into two categories:


temporal continuity and spatial continuity.
Temporal Continuity
Diagenic sound: Match on action cuts:

sound that actually A cut which splices two


occurs within the dierent views of the
story during the same action together at
action being viewed. the same moment in the
movement, making it
seem to continue
uninterrupted.
Spatial Continuity

the 180 degree rule


the Eyeline match
Eyeline Match
The eyeline match creates order and meaning in
cinematic space.

For example, character A will look o-screen at


character B.

Cut to character B, who will return that look and


so 'certify' that character A is indeed in the space
from which we first saw her or him look.

Eyeline Match
Continuity Errors
Shot Reverse Shot
One character looks at the other character and then back
again - they appear to be looking at each other but are
not in the same frame.
Example
Jump Cut
An elliptical cut that appears to be an interruption of a
single shot. Either the figures seem to change instantly
against a constant background, or the background
changes instantly while the figures remain constant.
Montage
A montage is a short sequence in a film in which
narrative information is presented in a condensed
fashion.

The
Graduate
montage
Do The Right Thing clip

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jc6_XgtOQgI
The Graduate montage

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