2. Alfred Hitchcock was a pioneer in
collage editing with such films as
Psycho.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x
JcQgQHR78Q
Above is an informational film about
early editing
Alfred Hitchcock was a pioneer in
collage editing with such films as
Psycho.
3. Tempo is a rapid form of editing
that switches between long shots
and slow edits with longer cuts
lasting closer to 20 seconds and
the shortest being less than a
second.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v
=2ETruidd5lQ (Bourne identity
Paris car chase scene)
It is believed that shots are
increasing in pace is a direct
correlation with the golden age of
Hollywood.
Tempo editing is key to the
changing of the ways that films are
made.
4. It is argued that it takes a viewer
an average of three seconds to
adjust to a new cut so what
happens when the cuts are less
than three seconds apart and the
audience cant keep up?
It is argued that younger
generations do not enjoy old
classic dated films because their
brains are to used to really fast
editing so find slow shots really
boring.
5. The second way editors can change
up the tempo is shot transitions
Most of the time the transitions we
see are fades, where one shot
fades into another over a period of
time, a cut where one shot goes
straight to the other in a smooth
transition and the dissolve when
one clip dissolves into another.
A scene that uses cut transitions -
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v
=PE9Qm8mShik
6. These shot transitions either
represent a passing of time or
simply a transition to another shot
at the same time, for example
cutting between two characters as
they speak to each other with over
the shoulder shots to have
whoever is speaking in the shot
Fades slow down films, often used
in sadder more solemn moments
when the editing should be slower
to suit the mood of the scene.
7. Timing of shots can be different to
gain different effects on the
audience for example a shot at the
beginning of a film that keeps on
being reverted back to in order to
put the film into context such as a
story being told by a character in
the film or a narrator.
8. Narrative sequencing is when the
story is told in chronological order
which is the most common way of
showing a film when the events
happen from beginning to end.
Media res is the term used when a
narrative is not in chronological
order.
9. Condensing and expanding time is
something that is very often used
in editing, for example perhaps
one of the most famous montages
that makes it seem like a lot of
time has past in one quick
montage is the world famous
training scene from Rocky .
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v
=DP3MFBzMH2o
Expanding time happens usually
when a scene is more intense and
time needs to go slower, for
example in an action film there
might be a slow motion scene of
the protagonist being blasted in
the air by an explosion that is
edited to be in slow motion for the
audience to fully appreciate the
action.
10. In the beginning of transformers
there is a flashback in which
megatron is discovered deep in the
ice roughly 100 years before the
events of the film took place, this is
one way in which the editors can
play with the arranging of time,
another way but not seen as much
is flash forwards however they
tend not to make sense until the
film reaches the part that was
previously flash forwarded too.
11. Editing causes the audience to pay
attention to specific details, this
can be done by using editing
techniques such as the ‘close up’
where one thing is the main focus
of the scene taking up the majority
of the space available in shot.
The establishing shot simply
establishes the scene and tells the
audience where that scene is
taking place.
12. The shot reverse shot typically
takes places during conversations
between two characters most
commonly used in an over the
shoulder shot style to capture the
emotion on the characters faces.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v
=Y78wMl1jXkM (star trek into
darkness)
13. This type of shot causes the
audience to engage with a
character on a more emotional
level, understand what they are
going through and see the world
through their eyes, overall it’s a
more personal shot than most
other shots (example left from
doctor who)
