• What is editing?
is part of the creative production process of filmmaking. It involves the selection and combining of shots into sequences, and ultimately creating a finished motion picture. It is an art of storytelling.
• What is Elliptical editing?
a technique used in film editing that allows an event's duration on-screen to be shorter than its duration in the story. The simplest type of elliptical edit is a cut between two shots, both of which show part of the same event. The cut between the two shots allows filmmakers to omit part of that event, to reduce the time that the event is shown on-screen
• Why are long shots used?
Long shot used to focus on the whole place where the character is standing and to se
• What is ‘non-diagetic sound’?
Non-diegetic sound is represented as coming from the a source outside story space
◦ narrator's commentary
◦ sound effects which is added for the dramatic effect
◦ mood music.
• How do we know she is bending down to pick up the ring? (what shots are used and why?) the shot before she pick up the ring is reverse shot. Then she looked down and pick up the ring. The director make it longer and interactive shot to maintain the audience attention
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• Overhead establishing shot – what does this achieve?
The director sets out the space where the action will take place and the characters positions within the room.
• What is Shot-Reverse-Shot?
By cutting back and forth between the two men the audience assumes they are talking to each other.
• What is Eye-line matching?
The angle of their eyes lets the audience guess they are looking at each other.
• Why do we cut to the other members of the group?
For the audience to see their faces in reaction to the plan and their reactions to each other.
• What is a wipe?
A transition to move the action into different location
• What is the effect of using quick cuts?
keeps the story moving along and the audience on their toes.
b) Now watch ‘Editing: The Invisible Art’ and take notes:
• How can editing build tension and pace?
Editing can build a tension by the number of frequency and the changes of the shots, or by making the shots shorter and more frequent.
• What is crosscutting?
Cutting back and forth in two shots so audience can compare them.
• What are reaction shots?
It’s a shot which it cuts back to audience in the scene for the viewer can see them.
• What is seamless editing?
Not noticing the work of the editor in a sequence.
• What is a jump cut?
To deliver joke, exposing rather than hiding the edit.
• What is a flash back and what does it achieve?
normally used to show the audience a characters backstory.
• How can editing be used poetically?
When the audience is crying inside of the cinema or any place while outside is raining or the weather is bad.
C. Watch ‘Playing with Time’ – watch the film ‘The Gloaming’. Write a short evaluation of the editing used in this film. Refer to detailed examples from the film and use the terminology you have learnt today.
6. Editor Job profile: http://www.skillset.org/film/jobs/post/article_4732_1.asp
Read the Film editor job profile. Then, summarise in your own words the key aspects of being an editor. Explain what other people the editor works with and the skills needed.
Editor Job Role:
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