1. Unit 16: The Development of Editing Principles and
Purposes – Contemporary Period Script Worksheet
Objective:complete your Timeline to the contemporary period by examining in pairs how
Tarantino and Nolan developed Hollywood cinema using Continuity, Montage and
Discontinuity editing, and discussing the techniques they used and the purposes.
Pass: Describe the development of editing techniques and purposes
Discuss each filmmaker, their significant films and any information you can find out about
their contribution to the development of editing
Describe how Tarantino and Nolan use a mixture of continuity and alternative editing
techniques
Describe the purposes of editing in clips from their films (manipulating Time and Space,
following the action, creating motivation, rhythm/tempo/pace)
Inglorious Basterds
http://youtu.be/grq0rhtbtAw
death proof
http://youtu.be/tXowTxmhQ5w
kill Bill Kung fu training
http://youtu.be/ETTsJggQl3I
The Prestige
http://youtu.be/lI_qlGJ4OO0
http://youtu.be/ZOoJoTAXDPk
https://vimeo.com/15489427
Chris Nolan
http://dai.ly/x2zmmdl
2. http://youtu.be/lyQeO1_NXYU
http://www.criticalcommons.org/Members/JPSarmie/clips/action-film-editing-expansion-
and-compression-of
Merit Task: Explain the development of techniques and purposes of editing
Explain how Tarantino and Nolan are influenced by their Auteur predecessors - how have
they used the techniques of the Montage (Eisenstein) and Discontinuity (French New
Wave) as well as Continuity (Griffiths, Porter).
Explain the purpose of the techniques used in the clips (manipulation of time and space,
following the action, creating motivation, rhythm/tempo/pace) with specific examples
Explain why Montage, and Discontinuity techniques are used in the films of Tarantino and
Nolan referring to detailed examples (clips) – what does this bring to Hollywood?
Distinction Task: Compare and assess the development of editing principles and
techniques
Evaluate the extent that Montage and New Wave discontinuity editing has lost its political
or social ‘meaning’ intended by its Pioneers (Goddard, Eisenstein) over its stylistic use?
Conclude how Hollywood Continuity's dominance has absorbed these alternative
approaches (Montage, Discontinuity) to editing in favour of style, storytelling and
entertainment? Refer to Tarantino and Nolans work to justify
