Editing

montage theory

fragmentary unrelated details can be linked together to create a unified action

realist editing

lengthy take, pann craning tilt tracking instead of cutting. cut after content curve. preserve real time rather that cutting to continity or flashbacks.

sequence shot

long take with no editing. a shot that continue for an unusualy lengthy time before the transition to the next shot.

the cut

most basic tool of editing

intellectual edit

moves the story forward but keeps us thinking about why the two particular moments are juxtaposed, known as formal edit it draws attention to the cut instead of diverting it.

dw griffith

pioneer of classical style and immensly controversial subject matter

intellectual montage

sequence of edits between two vastly different actions creats a meaning beyond any of those actions shown alone

montage sequence

sequence that show a long process in just a few minutes

kuleshov effect

short film intended to show power of editing viewer assumed that the footage of the actor in each example was different, when in fact it was the same shot with diff object

The shot

the basic building block of editing

the 180 degree rule

the camera must remain on one side of an invisible line that cutes thu the middle of a scene; if the camera were to flip, the screen image will flip; thus, confusing the audience

Rough cut

the editors first pass at assembling the shots into a film, before tightening and polishing occurs.

distortion of time

time can be condensed or expanded

elliptical editing

tries to preserve the fluidity of an even without showing all of it. ommisions are done through transistions like dissolves, cuts, jump cuts.

distortion of space

two distinct filming locations can be made to metaphorically occupy the same cinematic space.

classical editing

unobtrusive, cuts for intensity and emotion

Cut dissolve

used for transitioning from one place to another

fade in.out

used to communicate the passage of time.

formalist editing

when filmakers deliberately choose to manipulate shots so that the transitions between them are not smooth or continuous

jump cut

2 sequential shots of the same subject are taken from camera positions that vary only slightly, often look like mistakes but can be done to emphazize an action or emotion

match on action

A continuity cut that splices two different views of the same action together at the same moment in the movement, making it seem to continue uninterrupted.

parallel editing

A technique of cutting back and forth between action occurring in two different locations, which often creates the illusion that they are happening simultaneously. Also called "cross cutting."

eyeline match cut

- A match cut that joins shot A (often POV shot of a character looking offscreen in one direction) and shot B (the person or object that the character Is seeing).

shot/reverse shot

One of the most prevalent and familiar of all editing patterns, consisting of parallel editing (crosscutting) between shots of different characters, usually in a conversation or confrontation. When used in continuity editing, the shots are typically framed over each character's shoulder to preserve screen direction.

What is Editing?

Process of selecting, arranging, and assembling the essential visual and sound elements to tell a unique version of a story.

continuity editing

The 'Classical Hollywood' style of editing; intended to establish a logical coherence of time and space between shots, suggesting that everything in the scene is physically continuous.

graphic match cut

a non-continuity edit in which a following shot is linked to the immediately previous shot purely by a visual image; an object, action, color etc.

sergei eisenstein

believed that nature was a conflict of opposites and that editing brough this out on film

cutting at the peak of the content curve

cuts at the point we have absorbed all we need to know to move on with the understanding of events.

discontinuity editing

cutting before the peak of the content curve, disorienting effect as it cuts before all info necessary to understand shot is given