Editing Techniques

Editing:

Editing in film is a process of cutting and assembling film footage to produce a finished product.

The role of the film editor includes organising transitions between shots making decisions about shot duration and maintaining continuity.

Shot Duration: It is the duration of shot will usually reflect the narrative context.

Pace: This reveals information about characters

Transition: The process of cutting from one shot to another usually involves a simple straight cut.                               

Dissolve Shot: The proceedings shot merges into the following shot, resulting on two shots being superimposed. The longer the dissolve the more noticeable the superimposition becomes.

Eye Line Match: A common convention to maintain continuity, a character looks at something and in the next shot reverse shot we see what they are looking at.

Match On Action: A similar technique where two shots are linked by an action.

Shot Reverse Shot:  Where the camera cuts one subject to another back and forth to follow the flow of a dialogue or interaction.

Montage Sequences: Consists of a series of shots that are edited into a sequence to condense narrative. It is usually used to advance the story as a whole.

Kuleshov Effect: The way film editing evokes emotions from a viewer. It is the way in which images are cut together that can induce a feeling from the audience.