Editing

What is editing?

Editing is a process of looking at all footage shots during the making of a film/TV programmer and placing it in the desire order and joining it together. 

Speed of editing:

How long each shot will take, whether it will be a fast or slow shot. Speed of editing helps determined the mood taking place on the screen. Trailer need to be a fast shot. how quick or slow the shot may appear. May be slow to understand what is going on in the film and to get to know the characters. 

Style of editing:

How each shot is joint up to the next shot. Movement from one shot to the next is called a transition. 

Transitions- how shots are joined together.

Straight cut:

The straight cut retains reality and reduces disbelief. It is not very noticeable to the audience, meaning it does not attract the audiences attention. A straight cut is one shot that flicks to the next shot. 

This is the invisible form of transition and is one of the most common ones used within a film. 

Dissolves:

A dissolve is like a blend. This is where one shot will fade out but another shot will start to fade it, meaning that both shots are on the screen at mid-point. This makes the shots looks at lot smoother when changing. Dissolving shot is mainly used to show a connection between two characters, places, objects of to pass the time. Meaning that it changes one thing to another. 

Fades:

This is where there is a darkening or a lightening of a image, usually becoming black or white. used to represent time passing, to someone has passed out or died, in the film. The way that this works is by shots will fade until a black or white image appears on the screen. Indicating the end of the section. 

Wipes:

This is when an imagine is pushed off of the screen by another imagine coming onto the screen. This is used for different locations being shown. The imagine can be pushed, left of right, up or down. This is also used to show times moving forward, however, this is not used very often. Wipes are used in star wars a lot though. 

Jump cuts:

Jump cuts are not used very often. However, when they are used the audiences attention is brough into focus on something suddenly. This is known as discontinuity editing and is also used to break continuity editing. Appears sections of sequence has been removed. They are very easy to get wrong and mistake them for straight cuts. They can also jump back and forward. Looking like a bit of the film has been cut out. For example the film Breathless uses jump cuts. 

Examples:

The film Citizen Kane (1941), this film uses straight cuts, dissolves and fades. 

• Many dissolves at the start to show the atmosphere and what was going on.
• Straight cuts where used just to move from on slide to another. 
• Fades showing that the man had died.
• Slow pace at the start, then it starts to speed up to show the tension and what is happening.

There is only one line of talking within this part of the film. However, you are able to understand what is going on through telling the story visually, through using effects and sounds.