Editing Activity

Editing Notes/Activity Question #1 and #4


Understanding and Using Editing

• Gestalt: a theory in Psychology that suggest, even though the mind only sees the parts, it fills in the gaps to create a whole.

The aims of this factsheets are to:

  • provide a general introduction to editing
  • explain a range of useful editing techniques
  • provide some practical tips to creating a successful narrative in film and video coursework

Editing has several functions:

  • to make a programme the required length and to remove unwanted material or mistakes
  • to alter the sequence of events, to move from one location to another and to move back and forth through time
  • to establish a style of the production
  • to move from one person's point of view to another, to create relationships between characters or between characters and objects to alter the pace by lengthening or reducing time
Wipe

• a type of transition where one shot replaces another by traveling from one side of the frame to another.

Cut


• where one shot is instantaneously replaced with the next.


Fade-out


• a gradual transformation of an image to black and this technique is used to suggest time has passed but that the narrative is continuous.


Match Cut/Graphic Match


• a cut between either two different objects, two different spaces, or two different compositions in which objects in the two shots are similar in some way.


Iris Wipe


• takes the shape of a growing or shrinking circle. This was a convention of editing in early films but can also be used to denote an eye.


Dissolve


• a gradual transition from one image to another where the two shots appear on screen at the same time until one gradually vanishes.


Continuity Editing


• the name given to the editing technique that creates the illusion of continuous time without showing everything that happens.


Elliptical editing


• its purpose is to draw attention to the action and heighten tension.


Jump Cut


• a dramatic edit that breaks time and space continuity by drawing the viewer's attention to the edit.


Montage


• a useful way to convey a story using images without having to go into narrative detail.


Questions


Activity 1

The second clip tells the story of the fire man is telling a story through editing. There are cuts throughout the film while the firemen are heading from the station to the house that has been impacted. There is also contrast and simultaneity as they are moving through the town.


Activity 4

The cuts move in a sequence throughout the film to show the passage of time. As the cuts progress, Carl and Ellie become older and experience the world together.

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