Intro_To_Film_Editing_UMT
Put Murch's "Rule of 6" in the proper order.
#1. → Emotion, #2. → Story, #3. → Rhythm, #4. → Eye-Trace, #5. → 2D Plane of Screen, #6. → 3D Space of Action
You can never judge the quality of a sound mix by simply...
...counting the number of tracks.
Confronted by an angry person who is unblinking, you can possibly deduce that he/she might be...
...occupied by a single thought.
Murch states that "most of all, editing is a..."
..kind of dance.
Put these filmmakers in chronological order of their contributions to film editing.
1 : → Eadweard Muybridge, 2 : → The Lumière Brothers, 3 : → Thomas Edison, 4 : → Edwin S. Porter, 5 : → D.W. Griffith
What does Murch say is the average ratio of unfinished minutes to minutes found on screen in typical Hollywood films?
20 to 1
According to Murch, "The truth of the matter is that film is being cut ____ times per second".
24
Match the pioneering filmmaker with the project they're known for:
A Trip to the Moon → Georges Méliès, The Great Train Robbery → Edwin S. Porter, Birth of a Nation → D.W. Griffith, The Horse in Motion → Eadweard Muybridge
The Moviola (an old style editing bench) closely resembles what?
A sewing machine.
The selling points of editing digitally rather than mechanically include reduced costs and people involved, increased speed, easier access, the ability for the director to review the work, and...
All of the above.
What is the "dream test" Murch refers to?
All of the above.
When Murch wrote the first edition of this book, he felt we would not know where we were until what milestone had passed?
All of the above.
Why is the first use of parallel editing important to cinema?
All of the above.
What does Murch mean when he says "the actual instant of the blink itself" is significant?
All the above
According to Murch, an overactive editor can be a negative thing, not allowing the audience to make choices for themselves. What does he compare an overactive editor to?
An overactive tour guide.
What are Dailies like, according to Murch?
Auditions.
What does Murch start to link in real life to the cuts in movies (with the help of the interview he read with John Huston)?
Blinking
Different editing softwares run on different operating systems, but essentially function the same way:
Both a and b.
D.W. Griffith introduced what controversial debate in filmmaking?
Can a film's bad content be separated from it's good technique?
When a scene has been reworked and refined, there comes a point when the shots themselves seem to...
Create each other.
What does Murch describe as "the moment of transition from one shot to the next?"
Cut
According to Murch, what are you doing when you say "I like this frame better than that frame?"
Editing
What is "King" according to Murch?
Editing
What is cross-cutting (or parallel editing?)
Editing where two or more stories can be followed at the same time.
What culture's artwork utilized visual discontinuity to illustrate the human form?
Egyptian
What does Murch say is the thing you come to last in film school because it is difficult to define and deal with?
Emotion
What does Murch say are "extremely tightly connected" and bonded together?
Emotion, story, and rhythm.
If we were only limited to a continuous stream of images, what would be the result?
Films would not be as sharp and to-the-point.
To what innovation does Walter Murch compare to the advent of editing?
Flight
This filmmaker is credited with first utilizing the "in-camera edit," thus leading toward camera tricks.
Georges Méliès
According to Murch, a badly edited film can make the audience what?
Hold back
I've often used the phrase "a good editor is a fast editor." How does Murch support the idea of speed with his discussion of multiple editors?
If multiple editors can get your film out that much earlier, they've effectively paid their own salaries.
What happy accident did Murch discover by taking stills from the dailies of The Unbearable Lightness of Being?
It caused you to think about things.
What was special about the year 1995?
It was the last time the number of films edited mechanically equaled the number of films edited digitally.
According to Murch, what is the main risk of collaborative editing?
Lack of coherence
Always try to do the _________ with the least.
Most
One of the disciplines that Murch follows is to hit the "_________" by marking it in real time.
Out point
Which one of the following did Murch not say was "much more than that" when referring to editing?
Performance.
Murch believes that our "rate of blinking" might be linked more to our what?
Psychological state
What does Murch compare audience reactions to?
Referred pain
Murch keeps working on a scene until he can no longer...
See himself in the scene.
What Russian filmmaker pioneered the ideas of montage editing in direct opposition to Griffith's seamless editing?
Sergei Eisenstein
What does Murch describe as "splices considered, made, and then undone or lifted from the film?"
Shadow Splices
According to Murch, what is the main advantage of collaborative editing?
Speed
There is a way of editing that ignored Murch's philosophies about blinking and rhythm. What does he call it?
The "Dragnet" System.
What is the name of the camera invented by the Lumiére Brothers?
The Cinématographe
This is what Cartier-Bresson refers to in still photography that Murch was able to translate to film via the stills from the dailies.
The Decisive Moment.
What is the name of the camera invented by Thomas Edison?
The Kinetograph
What does Murch say we suggest when we say someone is a "bad actor?"
The actor is not really in the moment.
According to Murch, the editor has some immediate control over two perceptual issues in the editing room. What are they?
The amount of detail visible in the image and the size of the image.
What contribution to filmmaking can we thank Muybridge for?
The first moving image.
Match the names of montage editing to their descriptions.
The juxtaposition of images which have nothing to do with each other but when placed next to each other create an idea in the audience-Intellectual Montage. The juxtaposition of images whose content is similar to generate a "theme" or "mood" within the series of images-Tonal Montage. Cutting the footage to any sort of driving beat that can come from music, sound, dialog, or what is actually happening on screen-Rhythmic Montage. A method of Montage based on the physical length of the cuts. Shorter cuts are used to generate growing intensity, while longer cuts are used to create a calm sense or even anticipation-Metric Montage. A method of Montage that includes all of the other types of Montage-Overtonal Montage.
Who performs the same task for the writer that the film editor performs for the film director?
The text editor
Murch discusses editing choices and not attempting to change the film half-way through the editing process. What does he compare this to?
The way a human and chimpanzee embryo grow differently in the womb.
What are possible reasons Murch gives for a person "blinking too much", "not blinking at all", or "blinking at the wrong times?" Select one:
This person is not listening.
Who did Edwin S. Porter work for?
Thomas Edison
How long is generally accepted as a "generation in the evolution of computers?"
Two and a half years.
Murch states that, "in an ideal world" he would like to do what after finishing the first edit?
Watch all the dailies again.
