2. EDITING BACK IN THE DAY
Editors initially just captured what amused and interested them.
They held a shot until they got bored or the film ran out.
Didn’t use cuts – couldn’t tell the story – led people to think
there’d never be a future of cinema
Edwin Porter was the first man to come up with the idea of
cutting
Robert W Paul created the first machine that did cutting –
allowing film directors to edit
3. PIONEER OF EDITING
In the making of Psycho, Alfred Hitchcock wouldn’t allow the
stabbing of a naked woman to be shown on the screen as he
though it would be too easy and too over the top.
Instead he used individual small cuts to edit together the brutal
murder, showing subtle snippets of violence which he said
“created a whole mirage of film”
This allowed the story to be told well and create emotion and a
memorable scene from cinema history.
4. EDITING PACE
The speed of cuts can basically portray different moods of the
scene to the viewers
E.g. Slow cuts can suggest emotion and sadness in a scene,
whereas fast cuts can demonstrate tension, action, and
uncontrollable events like car chases.
The first and most obvious thing to notice in a scene is the editing
pace as it shows an insight into the feeling and tempo of the
sequence.
5. JUXTAPOSITION
Editing often works through the juxtaposition of different shots to
suggest and create contrasting effects like tension and suspense
E.g. A murder, then straight afterwards a scene of a child playing
6. MATCH ON ACTION
Where the editor cuts from shot to another view that maintains
the first shots action, cutting on action gives the impression of
continuous time. Or you could say seeing the same action from a
different view point.
