Camera movements: Editing.

What is Editing?

 

Editing is a post-production process technique in which the footage shot during production is cut up and reassembled in such a way as to tell the story.

 

 

• Pace of editing
• Orders the narrative
• Selection of film
• Essential part of post- production
• Style of editing
• Transitions.

 

 

The editor decides:

 

• The order of the scenes
• The pace of the scenes
• Which scenes to include or discard.

 

 

The speed of editing (shot duration) :

• Fast paced editing
• Slow paced editing
• Change of editing pace.

 

 

 

The style of editing (connection of shots):

• Transitions.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Editing Techniques

 

Continuity editing: The most common type of editing, which aims to create a sense of reality and time moving forward. Also nick named invisible editing referring to how the technique does not draw attention to the editing process.

 

Jump cut: An abrupt, disorientating transitional device in the middle of a continuous shot in which the action is noticeably advanced in time and/or cut between two similar shots, usually done to create discontinuity for artistic effect.

 

Match-on-action: A shot that emphasises continuity of space and time by matching the action of the preceding shot with the continuation of the action. (For example a shot of a door opening after a shot of a close up of a character's hand turning a door handle.

 

Cutaways: A brief shot that momentarily interrupts continuous action by briefly inserting another related action, object or person (sometimes part of the principle scene or main action) followed by a cutback to the original shot.

 

Parallel Editing: A type of editing in which events in two locations are cut together, in order to imply a connection between the two sets of events.