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2. What are we looking for when
analysing editing?
• Write down as many elements that you can
think of that may come under editing.
3. What are we looking for when
analysing editing?
1. Shot selection and order
2. Continuity
3. Transitions
4. Shot duration, pace and rhythm
5. Special effects
You need to be able to
discuss how these
technical elements help
create meaning.
4. 1. Shot selection and order
• The meaning of a clip can change depending
on the order the shots are cut together, e.g.
Hitchcock Loves Bikinis
• Putting two shots together can suggest a
connection or emphasise contrast
(juxtaposition).
5. 1. Shot selection and order
• The order of shots can reveal who motivates the
edit.
• Which character’s perspective is privileged? For
example,
– who do we start or end with or cut to most often in a
conversation/scene?
– Who do we see eye-line matches for, etc.?
6. 1. Shot selection and order
• Screen time - which character do we see most, or
which character do we see the perspective of most?
i.e. point of view shots.
These factors help inform the audience which characters
are most important at a particular point in the narrative.
7. 2. Continuity
Continuity Editing:
• Cutting shots to tell a story with narrative continuity
• Helping the viewer make sense of the action by
implying spatial relationships and ensuring smooth
flow from shot to shot.
• Creates realism - edit is invisible so action appears
real rather than constructed. The on-screen world
makes sense in terms of time and space.
8. 2. Continuity
Continuity Techniques:
• Establishing shot (establishes the space in which action is to
happen)
• The 180º rule (ensures that the same space is described in
each shot)
• Shot/reverse shot
• Eye-line match (e.g. character looks off-screen, next shot
shows us what they see)
• Match on action (character begins to move in one shot, we
see continuation of the same movement in the next shot)
9. 2. Continuity
Continuity Techniques:
• Parallel Editing: crosscutting or intercutting between
different locations can convey the impression that two or
more events are occurring simultaneously. This is often
used to build tension.
Example from Silence of the Lambs, The Godfather
10. 2. Continuity
Non-Continuity:
• Montage – giving information in compressed
form.
• Non-continuity editing – Continuity is broken
and construction is more apparent. Meaning
often created through juxtaposition and
metaphor shot inserts.
• For example, the Six Feet Under opening.
11. 3. Transitions
• The process of cutting from one shot to another
usually involves a simple straight cut. However there
are other means of transition available to a film
editor such as,
• Fade to black
• Dissolve/cross fade
• Wipe
12. Fade – the preceding shot fades into black from which the following
shot emerges.
13. Fade – the preceding shot fades into black from which the following
shot emerges.
14. Fade – the preceding shot fades into black from which the following
shot emerges.
15. Dissolve or cross fade – the preceding shot merges into the following shot,
resulting in the two shots being superimposed. The longer the dissolve the
more noticeable the superimposition becomes.
16. Dissolve or cross fade – the preceding shot merges into the following shot,
resulting in the two shots being superimposed. The longer the dissolve the
more noticeable the superimposition becomes.
17. Dissolve or cross fade – the preceding shot merges into the following shot,
resulting in the two shots being superimposed. The longer the dissolve the
more noticeable the superimposition becomes.
18. 3. Transitions
• What meaning could be created by the use of
the transitions we have just looked at?
19. 3. Transitions
As well as simply moving to another shot, transitions
can:
• imply a passage of time
• imply a change in location
• emphasise a connection, perhaps what a character is
thinking, remembering or dreaming about
(dissolve/cross fade).
Click here for more detail on transitions
20. 4. Shot Duration, Pace & Rhythm
• The duration of a shot will usually reflect the narrative
context.
• Generally speaking short shot duration conveys action
and urgency (say in a chase sequence). Click here for a
chase sequence from District 13. See if you can count the
number of shots!
• Long shot duration creates a slower pace and conveys
intensity and intimacy within the narrative, it allows us to
focus upon facial expression and other aspects of mise en
scene which would otherwise be missed.
• Video clip on fast and slow cutting.
21. 5. Special Effects
• Special effects can be used to further manipulate the
mise en scene of a sequence.
Arlington Road example
22. Editing controls what information we
get and when we get it
When analysing a clip it is also useful to consider how editing
techniques are used to control what information is revealed to or
hidden from:
a) the characters?
b) the audience?
If you as the audience know more than the character(s) then it
can help provoke an emotional reaction.
23. Editing controls what information
we get and when we get it
For example, a film may be cross cutting between shots
of a character and shots that suggest impending
danger. The character does not see this but the
audience do and so may feel anxiety or tension in
anticipation of something horrible happening – the
element of suspense is being built up for the audience.
24. More editing devices & terminology
• Ellipsis - compression of time.
(Taken from http://www.elementsofcinema.com/editing/ellipsis.html)
• Split screen: where the frame is split into sections so
that we can see different events occurring at the
same time. This technique was used on the TV series
24 and also the Thriller opening Mesrine: Killer
Instinct.