2. Before we staring editing our footage, we decided to look into
the history of editing and started looking at different editing
techniques to see if it could help us to make our opening title
sequence so it could be the best we could. Here are some of
the editing techniques I researched and think that would be
good to use in our opening title sequence to keep the thriller
genre.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AEu3DMcnlgw here is a
video I found that shows some of the transitions, this helped
me understand the editing techniques, which is going to help
me when editing our open title sequence as I can add in and
use some to help create atmosphere.
3. Soviet montage theory is an approach to understanding and
creating cinema that relies heavily upon editing
montage is French for 'assembly' or 'editing’. The idea that
when you show a film clip followed by another, the viewer
instantly think they are related.
Soviet filmmakers that were the first to show this;
Lev Kuleshov, Dziga Vertov, and Vsevolod Pudovkin.
4. Thomas Edison created the
Kinetoscope, he then created
the first copyrighted film “The
Record of a Sneeze” in 1894.
James Williamson created the
first edited film called ‘FIRE’
1901, showing a house on
fire.
5. transition; A film transition is a post-production technique
process of a film editing and video editing by which scene or
shots are combined. these transitions are usually to convey a
tone or mood, suggest the passage of time or separate parts of
the story.
Here are some of the transitions I looked at :
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Cut = simple jump between two shots
fade = fades shots to colour, usually black or white
Cross-fade/dissolve = gradual fade
Wipe = pushes off screen
6. • Shot reverse shot;
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Shot reverse shot is a film technique where one character is shown looking at another
character (often off-screen), and then the other character is shown looking back at the first
character. Since the characters are shown facing in opposite directions, the viewer assumes
that they are looking at each other. Shot reverse shot is a feature of the "classical" Hollywood
style of continuity editing, It is an example of an eye line match.
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We used shot reverse shot in our prelim:
7. Parallel/cross cutting;
This is an editing technique most often used to establish action occurring at the
same time in two different locations. In a cross-cut, the camera will cut away
from one action to another action, which can suggest the simultaneity of these
two actions but this is not always the case. Suspense may be added by crosscutting. Cross-cutting also forms parallels; it illustrates a narrative action that
happens in several places at approximately the same time.
Here is an
example I found
of a good parallel
edit.
8. Graphic match:
• A graphic match is a cut made to transition
between two objects of a similar shape, it is
also used to link two objects metaphorically or
to create continuity in a piece. One example I
found was from psycho. (2000)
