Scribd
Upload
158 views4 pages

Editing Assignment 1 20

The document provides guidance for an assignment on understanding film editing techniques and applications. Students must produce a 5-minute documentary on pioneers of editing from early techniques to modern approaches. They must also submit a 1000-word report including a script and edit list analyzing how meaning is created through continuity/non-continuity editing, editing functions, and how effectively techniques fulfill intended purposes. Resources are provided on editing pioneers, textbooks, and example videos to illustrate techniques like montage, parallel editing, and match cutting.

Uploaded by

api-547450236
Copyright
© © All Rights Reserved
We take content rights seriously. If you suspect this is your content, claim it here.
Available Formats
Download as DOCX, PDF, TXT or read online on Scribd
158 views4 pages

Editing Assignment 1 20

The document provides guidance for an assignment on understanding film editing techniques and applications. Students must produce a 5-minute documentary on pioneers of editing from early techniques to modern approaches. They must also submit a 1000-word report including a script and edit list analyzing how meaning is created through continuity/non-continuity editing, editing functions, and how effectively techniques fulfill intended purposes. Resources are provided on editing pioneers, textbooks, and example videos to illustrate techniques like montage, parallel editing, and match cutting.

Uploaded by

api-547450236
Copyright
© © All Rights Reserved
We take content rights seriously. If you suspect this is your content, claim it here.
Available Formats
Download as DOCX, PDF, TXT or read online on Scribd
You are on page 1/ 4

Pearson BTEC Level 3 National Extended Diploma in Creative Digital Media

Production

Unit(s): 21: Film Editing

Assignment Details Contents


Title: Unit 21: Film Editing Unit introduction
Assessors: Kevin Ward A wide range of editing techniques and conventions
School: Media, Multimedia & have been developed to create meaning in film
Performing Arts sequences. Such techniques are used to engage the
Programme level: 3 Assignment viewer and keep their interest by following the
number: 1 action, moving the narrative forward, or eliciting an
Issue date: 06.10.20 Interim emotional response.
hand-in (if
applicable): In this unit, you will learn about the development of
Feedback: Due: different editing purposes, conventions and
15/12/20 12/01/21 techniques. You will explore how the pioneers of film
editing have used editing techniques and how
IV: IV date: they have developed more sophisticated applications.
Joe Kennedy 08/09/20
You will develop skills in digital editing
techniques and create a final, edited sequence for a
specific purpose. The skills you will develop in this unit
can be applied to edited sequences for a range of
different purposes, and the sequence you produce for
this unit can form part of a digital portfolio of work for
progression to employment or higher education.

Outcomes:

In this unit you will:


A: Understand the techniques and applications of editing for film and television
Pearson BTEC Level 3 National Extended Diploma in Creative Digital Media
Production

Unit(s): 21: Film Editing

Scenario
P1,P2,M1,D1 Assignment 1 – Understand the techniques and applications of editing for
film and television.

You have applied for a role as an Editor in a film studio and as part of the application
process you are asked to produce a video report which will demonstrate your
understanding of the techniques and applications of editing for film and television.
Please include all research notes and preproduction documentation to support your video.

Tasks Pass Criteria


Task 1: P1.P2.M1.D1 P1.M1.D1

Produce a mini doc (maximum 5 mins) about To achieve each outcome a learner
pioneers of editing. Tracing the journey from early must demonstrate the ability to:
film editing to modern day editing techniques.
Download clips and images, from the internet and P1: Explain the types, purposes and
use a voice over to narrate your documentary be functions of editing for film and
careful not to plagiarise verbally or with written television.
text on screen.
P2: Explain how meaning is created
Produce a written report/production log to in one genre of film or television
accompany your video (maximum 1000 words) this programme through the different
should include your voice over script & Edit applications of editing techniques
list/screen shots of compiling footage in your M1: Analyse how meaning is
editing programme. created through the application of
editing, techniques for different
You will need to analyse and evaluate the editing types, purposes and
following: functions

● how continuity and non-continuity editing D1: Evaluate the effectiveness of


are applied to different purposes and genres in film different editing techniques applied
and television for different purposes in fulfilling
● the applications and functions of different their intended purposes.
editing techniques
● how meaning is created by the use of editing
techniques
● how effectively the editing techniques used
in your examples fulfil their intended function

Some more guidance:


Pearson BTEC Level 3 National Extended Diploma in Creative Digital Media
Production

Unit(s): 21: Film Editing

Pioneers of
Editing:http://newmediateacher4.blogspo
t.com/2011/12/pioneers-of-editing.html
Further Guidance

Textbooks
● Chandler, G., Film Editing: Great Cuts Every Filmmaker and Movie Lover
Must Know, Michael Wiese Productions, 2009, ISBN: 978-1932907629
● Dancyger, K., The Technique of Film and Video Editing, Routledge, 2010,
ISBN: 978-0240813974
● Historical and contemporary review of the aesthetic principles of editing
Videos
The following videos are useful to show early and more contemporary uses of editing
techniques for discussion.
● Battleship Potemkin: The Complete Odessa Steps Sequence, documents an
early use of montage https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=laJ_1P-Py2k
● Way Down East - DW Griffith, Early Example of Parallel editing
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lI2e3pXat54
● Example of Parallel Editing in "The Silence of the Lambs" (1991) -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ts1x6uADFtM
● Rocky III Training montage https://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=4soF2wigKSM
● Team America - spoof montage explains the use of montage well, though
the lyrics may not be appropriate for younger audiences.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fhWiTORp22k
● “The Cutting Edge: The magic of Movie Making” https://vimeo.com/335100287

The following videos are useful to explain and illustrate techniques.


● Moviemaking Techniques - The 180 Degree Rule
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HdyyuqmCW14
● Tech Tip - Cutting on Motion/Match Cutting
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=59PjgIjImEk
● www.FilmmakerIQ.com
● Video Editing and Shot Techniques: Study of jump cuts, match cuts and
cutaways
Pearson BTEC Level 3 National Extended Diploma in Creative Digital Media
Production

Unit(s): 21: Film Editing

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ONMSe_zhq70
* Revisit class presentations/powerpoints on moodle

You might also like