The document discusses various editing techniques used in television dramas such as shot reverse shot, match on action, eyeline match, cutting and cross cutting. It provides examples of these techniques from a scene in the TV show "24" and analyzes how the editing creates tension and pace. Students are asked to evaluate the function of these editing devices and discuss whether editing in TV dramas constructs meaning about character relationships.

2. Shot reverse Shot
List as many
transitions as
they can
think of that
would be
used in a TV 180 degree
drama
Match on action Fade

3.  We are going to watch
the first 15 minutes of
Sex Traffic (2004)
 A powerful two-part
drama about two young
Moldovan sisters
kidnapped and
trafficked through
Europe to the dark side
of London, betrayed by
pimps and police, and
fighting for their lives. Watch now on 4oD

4. Transition Seen in Sex Traffic Why the transition was used in this drama
Shot reverse shot It shows a conversation between two people.
Cut Two separate scenes changed quickly. It shows what
other characters are doing at the time in a different
place.
Match on action Shows two perspectives and angles of someone for
example a shot of someone opening a door and the
other one of them walking through to the other
room.

6. List the all of the
editing devices
that you can
think of

7.  Cutting – The simple change from one
shot/scene to another
 Cross Cutting - Editing that alternates shots
of two or more lines of action occurring in
different places, usually simultaneously. The
two actions are therefore linked, associating
the characters from both lines of action.

8.  We have studied this before for your
preliminary task.
 This is used in conversation to move from one
character to another and back again.

9.  Again we have studied this before
 This is where the camera shoots one
continuous piece of action and the edit
switches from one perspective to another.

10. A cut obeying the axis of action principle, in which the first shot shows a person off in one
direction and the second shows a nearby space containing what he or she sees. If the
person looks left, the following shot should imply that the looker is offscreen right. See
the example below -
First we see her looking... then we see what she looks at.
As her interest grows, the eyeline match (that is the connection between looker and
looked) is stressed with matching close-ups of her face and Icarus's falling into the ocean
in the painting. Again, this implies that she is looking directly at Icarus's body.

11. First we see her looking...
then we see what she looks
at.
As her interest grows, the
eyeline match (that is the
connection between looker
and looked) is stressed
with matching close-ups of
her face and the section of
the painting she is
interested in

12.  With pace you are looking for how long or
short the time between each edit is.
 If we are watching a car chase we would expect
the time to be short between each edit.
 A emotional drama may have much longer
between each of its cuts
 You can also think about rhythem. Have the
edits been timed to key moments or the beat
of the piece of music behind the scene?

13.  Watch this clip and analyse how the editing
techniques have been used in the clip.
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gKkBzbdi
qV0
 Record examples for each of the techniques
using the table on the next slide.

14. Example from 24 Function of the editing
Editing Device interrogation scene devise
Cutting /Cross Cutting It shows one scene where It speeds up the scenes and
the interrogation takes place creates a tense atmosphere.
and another is the people
watching outside the room.
Shot Reverse-Shot The man is interrogating the Shows the conversation
woman. between two people.
Match on Action When the man runs up to the Shows one perspective to
woman and then it shows another.
the other shot of him
throwing her to the wall.
Eyeline Match The two characters are To show facial and figure
staring at each other and the expressions. Shows what
camera zooms into their they are looking at.
faces which shows that don’t
like each other.
Pace The pace increases when the The cuts are very short
man pushes the woman to which makes the pace faster.
the wall strangling her which
creates tension and an

15. In groups fill in the last
column of the table
evaluating the function
of the editing devices.

16.  Answer the following question:
 Does the use of editing in TV Dramas construct
the meaning about relationships between
characters.
 Post your response on your blog along with
this PowerPoint when it is filled in.