Editing is essential to filmmaking as it takes all the recorded shots and pieces them together to form a coherent film. There are different editing techniques like continuity editing which makes shots seem natural by maintaining consistent details between shots, montage editing which compresses time by quickly splicing together many scenes, and parallel/cross cutting which show simultaneous or out-of-order storylines by cutting between them. Fades are also used to transition between scenes or indicate shifts in time/location.

2. • Without editing you cannot have a film.
• Recording the shots is simply creating the pieces.
• Editing is where they are all put together to actually make the
film.

3. CONTINUITY EDITING
• This is when the editing is done in a way that makes the shot
seem natural.
• Everything is kept the same from shot to shot, for example what
the characters are wearing.
• If this is not done then you can end up with an extremely
unprofessional looking film that doesn’t make much sense.

4. CREATING CONTINUITY
• The 180 degree rule must be kept to to maintain continuity,
• Breaching this rule immediately distorts the continuity of the
scene.
• A master shot can be used to set the scene for the audience.
This is a shot that encompasses everything in the scene before
anything has happened. A pan may be used during this shot.

5. PARALLEL AND CROSS CUTTING
• Parallel cutting is used to show two simultaneous story lines at
the time time, by moving from to the other.
• Cross cutting is used to jump from one story line to
another, regardless of when it is occurring.

6. MONTAGE EDITING
• Montage editing is where lots of scenes are squashed together
and shown in a very quick manor in order to compress time.
• It also allows a lot of information to be shown to the audience in
a minimal time frame.

7. FADE (TO BLACK)
• A fade is used at the end of a scene.
• A scene can either fade to black or fade into another scene.
• A scene normally fades to black when it is the last scene, or if it
is following a patter of scene, black, scene, black etc.
• Scenes may also fade to black to show a shift in time or
location.
• Scene will fade into one another when cross or parallel editing
is involved.