This document discusses various aspects of editing, including:
1. Editing involves joining separate shots together and adding/removing effects, graphics, sound, time, framing and establishing shots.
2. There are different cinematography techniques used in editing like match cuts, short reverse shots, and reaction shots.
3. Transitions like fades, dissolves, and wipes are used to join scenes, and continuity and montage editing styles are discussed.
2. Editing is a process of joining together
separate shots. Also, it can be said to be an
element which deals with the adding or
subtracting of effects, graphics, sound, time,
framing and establishing shots. Further more,
to develop more understanding about
editing, we will discuss the following factors:
3. 1. Importance of editing
2. Cinema photography
3. Transitions
4. Importance of effects in editing
5. Styles of editing
4. 1. Editing helps us to organize and import video elements.
2. Editing helps us to create a rough assembly or draft.
3. Editing helps us to create a final result using effects.
4. Editing helps us to develop and improve the visual quality
of shots.
5. Editing helps us in the splitting, combining and trimming of
shots.
Link:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EvG5wkBOfcEb
5. In editing, there are 6 cinematography
techniques. And for now, we will discuss 3
patterns which are :
Match cut
Short reverse shot
Reaction shot
6. Match Cut is a pattern that shows two different
shots, in which an object from the one scene closely
resembles another object at the beginning of
another different scene.
Link: e.g.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mI3s5fA7Zhk
7. Short reverse shot is a pattern that shows a
character looking at another character. Now,
seeing both characters are shown facing each
other in opposite directions, the audiences or
viewers of the film subconsciously think that
they're are looking at each other.
8. Link: e.g.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rI82hsBrq8w
9. Reaction is a pattern that usually shows a
character reacting to an event or dialogue or
action taking place in a scene.
11. Transition is a method or process of joining a
certain amount of scenes from a shot.
In editing, there are 8 main transitions. For
now, we will discuss 3 transitions which are:
Fade
Dissolve
Wipe graphic match
12. Fade is a transition that occurs when a shot
gradually fades to create a single colour,
occasionally black or white. In films, this
effect is created by a change in exposure.
And so as a result, it is widely called a “fade
out / fade in” transition.
Link: e.g. http://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=3bup_zehvBo
13. Dissolve is a transition that occurs when a
shot gradually moves from one image to
another. In films, this effect is created by
double exposure from frame to frame;
transitioning from one end of a shot to the
beginning of another shot.
Link: e.g.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=I1bUEztCT0c&feature=related
14. Wipe graphic match is a transition that occurs
when an effect is marked between two shots. In
other words, when one scene is shown, it
automatically changes itself into a completely new
scene. Furthermore, the wipe technique acts as a
clear indicator of change between scenes in a shot.
Link: e.g.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xCDoEVb5Lmw
15. 1. Effects helps us to improve the visual
qualities of shots.
2. Effects helps create a spectacle of great
produced films.
3. Effects enhances creativity.
4. Effects helps us improve other video
elements such as sound, colour, light,
framing and establishing shots.
16. In editing, there are 2 distinctive styles which
are as follows:
Continuity editing
Montage editing
17. Brief history:
Continuity editing was a style developed during the early era of
European and American films. Movies like Intolerance and The
birth of a nation by D.W. Griffith, made extensive use of
continuity editing, because the style focuses on the
enhancement of narrative structure and also it promotes the
use of camera techniques.
Continuity Editing is a style constructed as a continuous or
advance flow of an action in a film. Furthermore, it implies the
camera movement of 180 degree rule, shot reverse shot and
establishing shots.
Link:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8xauSCz1mEk
18. Brief history:
Montage sequence involves an extensive amount of short shots
that are edited into a narrative sequence. Occasionally it is used
to advance a story. A good example of montage editing can be
seen in the film 2001: A Space Odyssey (the film depicts about
the start of man's first development from apes to humans).
Montage editing is a style that deals with shots assembled , by
means of dissolves, in order to serve as a medium of general
video effects. And so as a result, montage editing acts as a
sequence of condense narrative sequence.
Link:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tgLyIYvwQmE
