Wednesday, 21 September 2016

Focussing on Editing

Editing 
Film editing is the art, technique and practice of assembling shots into a coherent sequence. In the context of trailers, this often involves picking the best bits of a film. I have decided to focus to write an analysis in order to understand the contribution editing makes to the whole trailer.

Types of editing
Structure

  • Continuity editing - also called invisible editing. In this, the editing is fluid and there are no transitions.
  • Non linear - parts of footage taken from different points of the film. The footage is not consecutive.
  • Linear - the story is a long consecutive sequence. Events are edited in the order that they happened
Transitions (a few examples)
  • Fade to black
  • Dissolve
  • Fade to white
  • Cross cutting
  • Blur
  • Cross dissolve
Cuts (a few examples)
  • Jump cuts
  • Cross cutting (also a transition)

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