8. Time
Editing – Alfred Hitchcock
Mosaic, Montage, Assembly, Impressionism,
Orchestration
http://youtu.be/NG0V7EVFZt4
9. Time
Editing – Building Blocks
• Frame – The individual sequential images that make
up motion pictures; a single photograph on a strip of
film.
10. Time
Editing – Building Blocks
• Frame
http://youtu.be/xJcQgQHR78Q http://youtu.be/xJcQgQHR78Q
11. Time
Editing – Punctuation and Transitions
• Transition – The technique used to connect two shots
together.
12. Time
Editing – Punctuation and Transitions
• Transition – The technique used to connect two shots
together.
• Cut - The direct connection of the two shots.
Nothing comes between. One shot ends and the
other begins. (Straight cut)
14. Time
Editing – Punctuation and Transitions
• Cut
http://youtu.be/xJcQgQHR78Q http://youtu.be/xJcQgQHR78Q
15. Time
Editing – Punctuation and Transitions
• Cut
http://youtu.be/xJcQgQHR78Q http://youtu.be/xJcQgQHR78Q
16. Time
Editing – Punctuation and Transitions
• Transition – The technique used to connect two shots
together.
• Cut - The direct connection of the two shots.
Nothing comes between. One shot ends and the
other begins. (Straight cut)
• Soft Cut - One that does not call attention to itself.
You may not even notice that the shot has changed.
(Invisible editing, cutting on action, continuity,
matched action, motivated cutting). “Casablanca”
“Singin’ in the Rain”
18. Time
Editing – Punctuation and Transitions
• Transition – The technique used to connect two shots
together.
• Cut - The direct connection of the two shots.
Nothing comes between. One shot ends and the
other begins. (Straight cut)
• Soft Cut - One that does not call attention to itself.
You may not even notice that the shot has changed.
(Cutting on action, continuity, matched action,
motivated cutting). “Casablanca” “Singin’ in the Rain”
• Hard Cut - One that calls attention to itself. You
notice that the image has changed. Bam! (abrupt,
abrasive, discontinuous). Panic on the Beach
“Jaws,” Shower Scene “Psycho,” “Battleship
Potemkin”
19. Time
Editing – Punctuation and Transitions
• Hard Cut - One that calls attention to itself. You
notice that the image has changed. Bam! (abrupt,
abrasive, discontinuous).
20. Time
Editing – Punctuation and Transitions
• Transition – The technique used to connect two shots
together.
• Cut - The direct connection of the two shots.
Nothing comes between. One shot ends and the
other begins. (Straight cut)
• Soft Cut - One that does not call attention to itself.
You may not even notice that the shot has changed.
(Cutting on action, continuity, matched action,
motivated cutting).
• Hard Cut - One that calls attention to itself. You
notice that the image has changed. Bam!
(Discontinuity)
• Jump Cut – A hard cut that creates a displacement in
time and space. Disjointed.
21. Time
Editing – Punctuation and Transitions
• Jump Cut – A hard cut that creates a displacement in
time and space. Disjointed.
Juimp Cuts in Old Movies http://youtu.be/F-Y3LtEkGgM
22. Time
Editing – Punctuation and Transitions
• Jump Cut – A hard cut that creates a displacement in
time and space. Disjointed.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0nM4-oYEGU
23. Time
Editing – Punctuation and Transitions
• Jump Cut – A hard cut that creates a displacement in
time and space. Disjointed.
Jump Cut Examples http://youtu.be/t1yUwWG5ikE
24. Time
Editing – Punctuation and Transitions
• Fade - A fade-out is the image in a shot going dark.
A fade-in is a dark screen brightening into a clear
image. Traditionally used to suggest changes in time
and place.
• Dissolve - An overlapping transition between two
shots in which for a period of time both shots are
seen. That is, there is a double image or
superimposition of the two shots as one fades out
and another fades in overtop.
27. Time
Editing – Building Blocks
• Shot – In the final edited film, the continuous and
uninterrupted material between editing transitions.
• Scene - The smallest narrative unit of time, place,
action. The action in a single location and continuous
time. Unity of time and place.
The last scene at the airport in “Casablanca.”
The party scene in “Singin’ in the Rain.”
The beach scene when the Kitner boy is killed in
“Jaws.”
28. Time
Editing – Building Blocks
• Sequence – a) A series of scenes which comprise a
distinct narrative unit, usually connected either by
unity of action, theme, location or time;
• b) events that take place in various locations in
continuous time, or in various times in a consistent
location.
The rescue from “Birth of a Nation”
Paris flashback from “Casablanca”
Gotta Dance from “Singin’ in the Rain”
Training from “Rocky”
Promenade (Tourists on the Menu) from “Jaws”
Heist from “Ocean’s Eleven”
The Three Level Shared Dream from “Inception”
29. Time
Editing – Concepts
• Editing - The process of joining all of the bits of film
together to constitute the completed motion picture.
• Montage – The art of creating emotional or narrative
impact through editing.
30. Time
Editing – Concepts
• Editing - The process of joining all of the bits of film
together to constitute the completed motion picture.
• Montage – The art of creating emotional or narrative
impact through editing; the whole being more than
the sum of the parts.
The Odessa Steps in “The Battleship Potemkin”
Watching the Neighbors in “Rear Window”
The Shower Scene in “Psycho”
Panic on the Beach in “Jaws”
31. Time
Editing – Concepts
• Cutting within a scene (“innercutting,” “intracutting,”
intercutting) - The process of cutting between angles,
views and details within a scene to develop the
scene’s narrative.
34. Time
Editing – Concepts
• Crosscutting (Intercutting). Cutting back and forth
between two different locations or among several
different locations (often in parallel or simultaneous
action), or times, or dream dimensions.
The Rescue from “Birth of a Nation”
The Baptism from “The Godfather”
The Three Level Shared Dream from “Inception”
35. Time
Editing – Concepts
• Crosscutting (Intercutting).
“Birth of a Nation” (1915) D.W. Griffith
Birth of a Nation Clip 6 http://youtu.be/9t-7SVbLjBw
37. Time
Editing – Concepts
• Crosscutting (Intercutting).
“Inception” (2010) Christopher Nolan
Crosscutting - Inception http://youtu.be/KmptU7vEkNU
38. Time
Editing – Concepts
• Flashcutting. Using cuts that are so brief that they
are barely perceptible to the human eye. Sometimes
called subliminal cutting when used to establish a
psychological subtext. “The Exorcist”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TD0RJ_iuBPo
39. Compressing Time
“The Avengers” (2012) Joss Whedon
• Running Time – 143 Minutes
• Narrative Time – Two Days
“The Searchers” (1956) John Ford
• Running Time – 119 Minutes
• Narrative Time – Six Years
“High Noon” (1952) Fred Zinnemann
• Running Time – 85 Minutes (Originally 100 Minutes)
• Narrative Time – 100 minutes
“Cloud Atlas” (2012) Lana and Andy Wachowski and Tom Tykwer
• Running Time –2 Hours and 44 Minutes
• Narrative Time – 472 Years
41. Compressing Time
• Hollywood Montage- “The Roaring Twenties” (1939)
http://www.tcm.com/mediaroom/video/247517/Roaring-Twenties-
The-Movie-Clip-Volstead-Act.html
54. Manipulating Time
• Reverse Action – The story moves backwards.
“Memento” (2000) Christopher Nolan
http://youtu.be/Rq9eM4ZXRgs
55. Manipulating Time
• Reverse Action – The story moves backwards.
“The Last Three Minutes” (2010) Po Chan
http://vimeo.com/10570139
56. Manipulating Time
• Reverse motion – The action moves backwards.
• “Spin” (2005) Jamin Winans
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oP59tQf_njc
57. Manipulating Time
• Time Lapse – Super fast motion created by taking
single frames of an object over time, compressing
minutes, hours, days, weeks or years.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HnbMYzdjuBs
58. Manipulating Time
• Time Lapse – Super fast motion created by taking
single frames of an object over time, compressing
minutes, hours, days, weeks or years.
http://youtu.be/nkn2ZXWDl6k
59. Manipulating Time
• Stop Motion – Single frame photography used to
animate objects. Effect that makes the animation
of drawings (cartoons) and inanimate objects (i.e.
Claymation) possible.
http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2008/12/31/50-incredible-stop-motion-videos/
69. Manipulating Time
• Bullet Time – Time is slowed or frozen selectively
for the characters and the environment, but not for
certain characters or the camera, which move
through the environment in real time. First
popularized in “The Matrix” (1999)
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/BulletTime
