This document provides information about editing techniques for film and media. It discusses continuity and non-continuity editing, and the different categories of editing techniques including cuts, dissolves, fades, and wipes. Specific techniques like parallel editing and shot-reverse-shot are explained. The document also covers concepts like editing pace and how editing guides the narrative and creates meaning for the audience.

1. Editing
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REPRESENTATION SESSION

2. Camerwork Quiz
 Get into three groups
 Share your questions
 Create a quiz for each team, and create an answer
sheet for yourself when marking.

3. Key Questions
 What is editing?
 What are the catergories of techniques that can
be used?
 How does editing reflect/impact the narrative?

4. Today's menu
 Camerawork quiz

5. What is editing?
 Editing refers to how shots are put together in
sequence to create a media text.
 Editing creates meaning

6.  Editing guides the spectator to
construct the story time out of
the plot
 time by emphasising order,
duration and frequency.

7. Continuity and non continuity
 Two types of editing
 Continuity retains a sense of realistic chronology
and genrates the feeling that time is passing.
 Continuity takes drama from one shot or scene to
the next
 This type of narrative makes the drama narrartive
progress in a realistic way.
 Although a drama may use flashforwards or
flashbacks within their structure, this is still described
as continutiy editing because the overall sense of
FORWARD is present.

8. Editing categories
 When analysing editing you must break it
down into four areas to help the quality of
the analysis.
 Cuts:one shot moves to the next without
the audience being conscious a cut has been
made.
 Dissolves: can see both shots on the screen
 Fades: black or white
 Wipes: image pushed off the screen, star
wipe

9. The Cut Transition
 A cut transition is when one clip ends and the next one begins
with no overlap or effect.
 Most often used.
 Simplest type of transition for seamless unnoticed edits.
 Fast paced.
What type of production would use cut transitions?
Holby City

10. Cut Transitions
 Editing transitions (cuts) are the different
ways shots are linked together in the
editing process. It describes how one shot
moves into the next.
 Different transitions can create slightly
different meanings for audiences.
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KQIW
ywngiLI

11. Continuity Editing
 Cutting shots are used to tell a story, and smooth
flow from one shot to another. Charaters, lighting
and action remain constant and central to the
frame.

12.  Estabilishing shot
 Shot, reverse, shot& over the shoulder shot
 eyeline match
 match on action
 long shot
 180 degree rule
 Graphic match
 Parallel editing
 Cutaway

13. Cut
 Jump Cut
 A cut between two shots of the same
object, character or scene where the
angle of the camera is less than 45
degrees

14. Jump Cut Example
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zel0Gq0MmZ4&
feature=related
Shot Reverse Shot
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=fvwp&NR=1
&v=QLkUHZ1qips

15. Parallel Editing
 Editing that alternates shots of two or more
lines of action occurring in different places,
usually simultaneously. You would see this
when you are showing parallel events
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4NGXD
Abhzik&list=PLp68mO58VGDMpPhYwFa-
n5VNs0TfsmKV5&safe=active

16. Non continuity Editing
 Montage is the second type of editing
 A montage contains many different images, (edited
together quickly).
 Do not provide a sense of narrative, but the
sequence is still meaning full
 There does not always have to be a obvious
connection, it could represent the thoughts of a
character's state of mind
 Montage sequences are used to CONNOTE chaos,
tension or disturbance.

17. Dissolve Transitions
 Generally used to show the passage of time or cover an
awkward shot change.
 Two shots over lap for a period of time and the first shot dissolves
into the second shot.
 Dissolves are sometimes called fades and can be used to create
a slower pace in a production.
What type of productions would use dissolve transitions?
Dissolve Example Pride & Prejudice

18. Fade & Dissolve
 Dissolve or mix
 This is when two shots are on screen at the same
time, visible through each other. The first shot is
faded out while the second is faded in.
 Fade to black
 Gradual disappearance of image into black screen
 Fade in (of pictures)
 Gradual appearance of the image.

19. Wipe
 Effect transitions include pushes, page peels, spirals, barn doors and
any and all other imaginable effects.
 Cuts and dissolves should be used almost exclusively as effect
transitions can have the unwanted effect of drawing attention to the
transition rather than the shot.
 Haphazardly using effect transitions is not recommended as they
distract and can take away from the meaning of the shots and visual
flow.
 If you choose to use an effect transition it should enhance or
contribute in a definable way to the storyline or visual meaning of the
production.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hIXlocGsoSQ&NR=1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IPfYvdUqo1o&NR=
1

20. Speed
 Fast paced editing - when shots are cut short
 This creates...
 Slow paced editing - shots last longer between cuts
 Creating a ....

21. Up to you
 You must spend time research and reading your
revision guide and revise the terminology.
 It is impossible for me to cover every single aspect
and you will need to do some leg work.