Editing

Editing

Editing is the process of looking at all the footage shot during the making of a film/TV programme and placing it in the desired order and joining it together.

1) Speed of Editing - How long does each shot last
2) Style of Editing - How is each shot joined to the next

In a film each scene may last a matter of seconds or it could continue for minutes but the length. Scenes at beginning of a film as it begins to tell it's story - must be long enough for us to be able to understand where we are and what is going on. It is also slow to introduce the main characters.

Style of Editing

• How shots are linked together
• The movement from one shot to the next is called a transition

Straight Cut

• Most common and invisible form of transition
• One shot moves instantaneously to the next without attracting the audiences attention.

Dissolves

• Fading one shot off the screen while another shot is fading in.
• The audience will be able to see both shots on the screen at the mid-point of the dissolve.

Fades

• A gradual darkening or lightening of an image until it becomes black or white.
• One shot will fade until only a black or white screen can be seen.
• Used to indicate the end of a particular section of time within the narrative.
• Can show the passing of time.