https://padlet.com/justincjd/orv84139jdqq Made by Justin en-us 2019-03-27 13:44:07 UTC 2023-03-17 18:06:23 UTC hello@padlet.com justincjd https://padlet.com/justincjd/orv84139jdqq/wish/345698197 Editing is an essential part of media. Editing is the process of cutting and putting together a variety of footages into a coherent sequence. Editors are the people who edit and there goal is to create a seamless product. Editing is very important in creating a story and a big part of storytelling. With editing, editors and directors can organise where each shot is going to go and create their film. Filmed shots are combined and put together to make a sequence. It is important to be successful with this editing process because it will determine if the sequence and the scene will flow smooth or not. With editing filmmakers can tell a linear or non linear stories. Linear storytelling is where the the story/film has a beginning, middle and an end. The timeline in the story is always moving forwards. Unlike linear, non linear storytelling is not straight forward in timeline and it will feature flashbacks and it will break the timeline with its time jumps. It can also be where the beginning of the film might be at the end or the middle and the end at the middle or at the beginning. Most popular film examples would be Pulp Fiction and Memento. It is important to engage the audience to the film depending on the genre. And this will happen with the help of editing. Filmmaker will use quick pace to make the audience excited and get their adrenaline going forward. Slow pace films will make the audience feel the moment and the film. It will engage them in a different way compared to quick pace films. Slow pace also creates tension. Quick pace films usually uses slow pace moments to slow the film, dialog scenes and give exposition. In the genre horror, filmmakers use slow paced editing to build the tension and the scene which will probably end with a jump scare. After the jump scare it is usually changes to a faster paced because the main characters will end up running away from the scare. This technique also works to create even more tension because after the jump scare the audience would be scared and it will get their adrenaline running, combine that with the quick cuts after the scare, will give you a typical modern horror films. A good example would be The Conjuring or the Insidious film series. In action films filmmakers use quick cuts to make the audience excited and have a good time. The Fast & Furious film series are a perfect example of this technique. Every film in the series uses the same techniques and it is clear that it works because it makes a lot of money like modern horror films]]> 2019-03-27 13:50:16 UTC https://padlet.com/justincjd/orv84139jdqq/wish/345698197 justincjd https://padlet.com/justincjd/orv84139jdqq/wish/345732248 2019-03-27 14:47:23 UTC https://padlet.com/justincjd/orv84139jdqq/wish/345732248 justincjd https://padlet.com/justincjd/orv84139jdqq/wish/346470141 2019-03-29 09:50:53 UTC https://padlet.com/justincjd/orv84139jdqq/wish/346470141 justincjd https://padlet.com/justincjd/orv84139jdqq/wish/346470954 Montage is an editing technique in film editing. This is where a series of shots are edited into a sequence to condense time and information. Filmmakers use this technique to jump in time and give information in minimal time. In 1920's a Soviet film director and film theorist, Sergei Eisenstein practiced and was a pioneer in the montage theory. Also early Soviet directors used montage in their films. 
Rocky's training montage in 1976's Rocky would be the perfect example for this topic. It is one of the well known montages to be used in a film. In this montage we can see that Rocky is training for his fight. Rather than giving showing this whole training, the filmmaker used a montage scene to condense time and give important information in a short time. And it does succeed, because we got our information that he is really training for the fight with showing him doing multiple exercises and at the same time it shows this whole process under 4 minutes. ]]> 2019-03-29 09:53:49 UTC https://padlet.com/justincjd/orv84139jdqq/wish/346470954 justincjd https://padlet.com/justincjd/orv84139jdqq/wish/346471137 In-camera Editing is a technique where the director will shoot the film in order rather than editing the shots into a sequence after the filming is done. In this technique the last shot the director uses is the end of the filming process and the production. If the director doesn't have the equipment, they will use this technique. Alfred Hitchcock used this technique in his 1948 film Rope. The film is considered to have a real time effect. It contained long unbroken shots. It does have editing because they used a 35mm and it will only hold 10 minutes of footage. But they used seamless editing so it looked like a one continues shot with the help of long takes. Jean-Luc Godard's 1960 film Breathless also used this technique and it is understood that both of these films paved the way for this technique to grow and done with better technological equipments. ]]> 2019-03-29 09:54:25 UTC https://padlet.com/justincjd/orv84139jdqq/wish/346471137 justincjd https://padlet.com/justincjd/orv84139jdqq/wish/346477603 2019-03-29 10:18:10 UTC https://padlet.com/justincjd/orv84139jdqq/wish/346477603 justincjd https://padlet.com/justincjd/orv84139jdqq/wish/346477685 Shot variation is where multiple shots are used in a film. Long shots are used to show the audience the scenery and can make the audience just to focus on the main character. Medium shots are used in dialog scenes and sometimes action scenes. These shots make the the narrative easier to follow. Close ups are used to show the emotion and the expression of the character. This makes the narrative move forward. Shot variations are important in film because it makes the film interesting and not dull. More variations in shots, the better.
Analogue Editing was used before our modern digital editing. Editor used to edit the films by cutting the film tape and sticking them back together. It must have been very difficult because there is no rewind button if the editor makes a mistake. If the editor cuts the wrong part then the movie is messed up. It was all by hand and doing anything by hand is a challenge by itself. After realising editing with hand was hard they brought the splicer, which wasn't easy as digital editing now but it made editors life easier. It meant that they didn't have to cut and edit with hand. ]]> 2019-03-29 10:18:35 UTC https://padlet.com/justincjd/orv84139jdqq/wish/346477685 justincjd https://padlet.com/justincjd/orv84139jdqq/wish/346477739 Seamless (Invisible) Editing is where the audiences eyes are following the action that they don't see the cut in between shots, so this makes the editing in the scene seamless. It looks and feels like natural when it's done right. 
180 Degree Rule is where two characters in a scene should maintain there left/right position. And it called a reverse angle when the camera passes over the crossing line between two characters]]> 2019-03-29 10:18:47 UTC https://padlet.com/justincjd/orv84139jdqq/wish/346477739 justincjd https://padlet.com/justincjd/orv84139jdqq/wish/346480612 Cut, Dissolve and Wipe are the tree primary transitions used in film. This transition is used to connect two sequences with one and other. It is basis of editing. If there wasn't any cut in the film, it would make the film a on take/shot film. This transition is used in nearly every film, it is mainly used to change the scene.  ]]> 2019-03-29 10:30:07 UTC https://padlet.com/justincjd/orv84139jdqq/wish/346480612 justincjd https://padlet.com/justincjd/orv84139jdqq/wish/346481528 Dissolve is another editing technique that is used in film. Dissolve is a transition of one image/shot to another and it overlaps two shots. Filmmakers would use this transition because it a creative way to change the scene. The terms fade in and fade out/fade to black are used to when a shot transitions to or from a blank screen. ]]> 2019-03-29 10:33:51 UTC https://padlet.com/justincjd/orv84139jdqq/wish/346481528 justincjd https://padlet.com/justincjd/orv84139jdqq/wish/346483383 Wipe is a transition where one shot is replaced by another by travelling across the screen. It is usually seen going left to right or vice versa. But filmmakers do use different shapes in this transition. The most notable example would be Star Wars. Every film uses wipe transition to change variety of scenes. ]]> 2019-03-29 10:41:50 UTC https://padlet.com/justincjd/orv84139jdqq/wish/346483383 justincjd https://padlet.com/justincjd/orv84139jdqq/wish/346485417 A POV (Point of View) Shot is a technique used in filmmaking. It is where we see the shot from a characters eyes. It is used so that the director can make the audience concentrate on one thing rather than just filming a scene with the character looking at that specific thing. ]]> 2019-03-29 10:49:39 UTC https://padlet.com/justincjd/orv84139jdqq/wish/346485417 justincjd https://padlet.com/justincjd/orv84139jdqq/wish/346486326 Shot reverse shot is another technique in filmmaking. It is mainly used in conversations. It is where a character is shown looking at another character (off screen) and that character is looking back at the first character. Both of these characters would be facing the opposite directions, so that the audience thinks they are looking at each other. This is a classic continuity editing that would come across as linear and chronological. This is also an example of eyeline match.  ]]> 2019-03-29 10:53:41 UTC https://padlet.com/justincjd/orv84139jdqq/wish/346486326 justincjd https://padlet.com/justincjd/orv84139jdqq/wish/346486929 Cutaways are shots that interrupt a continuously filmed shots by inserting a view of something else. Cutaways help the editor make the sequence longer. For this reason editors use cutaways to different objects while the action is happening to give a different perspective. Popular American TV show Family Guy uses a lot of cutaways to tell or show a joke and it is now popular for it's cutaway jokes. ]]> 2019-03-29 10:56:03 UTC https://padlet.com/justincjd/orv84139jdqq/wish/346486929 justincjd https://padlet.com/justincjd/orv84139jdqq/wish/346534520 Using rhythm in editing for films is a very creative of making the audience get excited. It is where they cut footage and the sound effects to the beat or the rhythm of a song/music that is playing in the scene. The trailer for Kong: Skull Island uses rhythm editing. The sound effects of the guns reloading and shooting matches with the beat of the music in trailer.]]> 2019-03-29 13:18:22 UTC https://padlet.com/justincjd/orv84139jdqq/wish/346534520 justincjd https://padlet.com/justincjd/orv84139jdqq/wish/346537126 Edgar Wright features cutting to the beat technique in his films. Most well known is in Baby Driver. In this clip the sound effects cut to the beat so that the audience encages more in the film and get even more excited. It also a stylish way of making fast cuts. Everything starts with when the song starts. Nearly every movement is sync with the song. ]]> 2019-03-29 13:23:20 UTC https://padlet.com/justincjd/orv84139jdqq/wish/346537126 justincjd https://padlet.com/justincjd/orv84139jdqq/wish/346539181 The same technique is also used in this clip, which also the film Baby Driver. The gun shots in this gun fight is sync with the beat of the song. The film feature multiple scenes like this. ]]> 2019-03-29 13:27:06 UTC https://padlet.com/justincjd/orv84139jdqq/wish/346539181 justincjd https://padlet.com/justincjd/orv84139jdqq/wish/346543806 Filmmakers can give information to the audience with the help of editing. For example, cut aways/flashbacks and montages are the most affective ways to provide the audience with information. Flashbacks are a good way to give information about one characters past or an action happened in the past. Rather than the filmmakers giving an information about a specific thing, they can use flashbacks to cut away and show that information in action. And montages are an affective way to give information in a small amount of time. Like the famous scene in Rocky, rather than showing this scene in 30 or 40 minutes, the filmmakers showed the training in a short time to save time and provide audiences with information about what Rocky was doing.
Editing can mislead audiences as seen in this clip from The Silence of the Lamb. In this scene, they have used a parallel editing. It shows the police enter a house, which the movie shows it as if it's the killers house. It is actually the wrong house they enter and the killer is in an another house. This is a clever editing style to mislead and build fake suspense in the scene.]]> 2019-03-29 13:36:55 UTC https://padlet.com/justincjd/orv84139jdqq/wish/346543806 justincjd https://padlet.com/justincjd/orv84139jdqq/wish/353775697 2019-04-24 15:14:31 UTC https://padlet.com/justincjd/orv84139jdqq/wish/353775697