History Of Editing
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ALFRED HITCHCOCK-
Employing a kind of psychological suspense in his films, producing a distinct viewer experience. Showing something that would be impossible to actually create without having special effects(which they didn't have in this time period.) Soviet montage is creating cinema projects that heavily relies on editing. But it seems in Hollywood pictures now they have forgotten where this idea had come from, and declined massively the shows without harsh editing and special effects. Now days there is the ability to make impossible situations come across more life like. Whether it is climbing up building walls, or time travelling back and forth. Movies are now able to produce something to excite the audience for whats happening next. This is our example of his work-- |
Modern day montage examples.
This is an example of a modern day montage as it is showing the change in emotions to manipulate the viewers, people quickly begin to become frantic and panicked, and all the elements build up to an explosively powerful ending that leaves the viewer in an intense state of heartbreak.
This is an example of Hollywoods montage as it is clearly showing a time period change, and how over years Carl and Ellie became older and more in love with eachother.
The final scene of "A Space Odyssey" is a example of a modern montage as it is showing the rebirth of an old man. Involving history of ALFRED HITCHCOCK by showing something impossible, and unable to been seen but done by editing and special effects.
This is a modern montage as in Toy Story it has a flash back to when Woodie and Buzz first met and was played with. Its showing the difference of time period and how things can change.
JUMP CLIP.
MATCH CUTS.
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Match cuts are any cuts that emphasizes temporal continuity and it is the basis for continuity editing. Eyeline matching is part of the same visual logic: the first shot shows a character looking at something off-screen, the second shot shows what is being looked at. Match cuts then are also part of the senselessness, the reality effect, so much favored by Hollywood. When we refer to continuity editing, we are referring to editing techniques that are used to help establish a flow between disparate shots so as to present a smoother narrative transition.You need to plan your shots accordingly so that they make sense within your scene, and more importantly they make sense to your audience.
The one that holds the best match from the three clips above would be "Art of the Dissolve" I think this because after he takes the drugs its a scene of white snow coming towards the camera at full speed which then quickly changes to a clip of him wiping his nose, which is inflicting the idea that the drugs are kicking in and making him feel the impact. In this clip is had a long shot of the man in his house snorting the drug, the then a close up of his face to show his expression, this is a good use of camera angles as it shows the audience everything that is happening within the scene. Then from covering it with a snow storm clip, it changes from a extreme close up shot of his face(as though the camera was coming out his nose) to another long shot of the party he was in. I think this is the best one to describe the match cut because it makes the audience think of what relation it has to the scene, but it is thought out very cleverly and when the audience find out the reason it is a clear indication of whats happening, whereas the first clip is too long and doesn't have something covering over the top that is a completely different setting to the original clip in it. |
TRANSITION
A transition is defined as the moving of a clip to another. Whether it is by wipe, dissolve, fade etc, it makes the change over of clips less of an obvious jump. Some are outdated, used mainly to refer to those first years, but others are still greatly used today. Each type invokes a different emotion. Understanding those emotions is essential to master editing.
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Seamless Editing and Continuity.
SHOT REVERSE SHOT-
Shot reverse shot is a filming technique that is used in Hollywood products which strongly makes or breaks the standard of the film. It is described as an eye line shot taken from over the shoulder. Since the characters are shown facing in opposite directions, the viewer knows that they're having a conversation with each other, so swapping the way the camera is facing constantly while one person is talking to see the other characters face. This is used because if you cross the line of editing then the shot wouldn't fit together.
Shot reverse shot is a filming technique that is used in Hollywood products which strongly makes or breaks the standard of the film. It is described as an eye line shot taken from over the shoulder. Since the characters are shown facing in opposite directions, the viewer knows that they're having a conversation with each other, so swapping the way the camera is facing constantly while one person is talking to see the other characters face. This is used because if you cross the line of editing then the shot wouldn't fit together.
Continuity is defined as a narrative that is the same throughout, following the same rules and structure for the performance of filming. The benefits of doing this is that it looks more lifelike, if you wore an outfit one day, to do the same scene again the next day you would have to wear the same outfit again. Seamless editing gets interrupted by this because with continuity covers any mistakes and makes it look like nothing’s wrong with the scene which is defeating the point of seamless editing as you want it to look as realistic as possible with hardly any trasactions or effects onto it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z0o0eyjS55c Seamless editing. |
The Social Network is a 2010 American drama film directed by David Fincher and written by Aaron Sorkin. The film portrays the founding of social networking website Facebook and the resulting lawsuits. The Social Network received widespread acclaim, with critics praising its direction, screenplay, acting, editing and score. The scene of uses this because it continuously changes over angles during the time of conversation, but doesn’t switch sides of what line of axis they are filming from. They are also involving an over the shoulder shot from an eye line view which is showing that the characters are on the same level of importance in the topic. It is important that this is used because otherwise the constant swapping of viewpoints would make the scene very messy and confusing to keep up with; by doing this it looks more realistic and that it’s actually happening rather than put on
180 DEGREE RULE?
The 180 degree shot is very important in filming. It means you are unable to cross the camera over that 180 side. Meaning the camera is able to move anywhere in that shaded area, but cannot flip to the other side of it and film from the other side. This line is called "the axis of action". |
Seamless editing is where you put two different clips together to make a smooth product that is clean and easy to understand. It is the cut between clips that dissolve to form one. This technique is served to tell a story, and instead of having a blunt edit cut between shots, it fits in without the audience even knowing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kZF56-EljFQ
Another example of this is 30 degree shot. The 30º rule dictates that when cutting between shots (especially of a single subject), the difference in angle between the two shots should be equal or greater than 30 degrees in order for the cut to be effective. This is less rigid and less well known than 180 degree edit. Moving in for a closer shot so you can see the real emotion of the characters.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kZF56-EljFQ
Another example of this is 30 degree shot. The 30º rule dictates that when cutting between shots (especially of a single subject), the difference in angle between the two shots should be equal or greater than 30 degrees in order for the cut to be effective. This is less rigid and less well known than 180 degree edit. Moving in for a closer shot so you can see the real emotion of the characters.
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This is our editing example. Going from 180 degree shot, to continuity error, to over the shoulder. This is the important techniques used within media production that has to be thoroughly planned out.
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Motivated editing.
Motivated editing is described as the editor choosing the footage very carefully to move the story along and make the audience fall for what they are being told. Which is then cut along to a shot from a certain characters point of view, this way the audience is able to engage in the characters more and understand their point of view on certain situations instead of them being able to pick up on the fact that the shots are moving on fast and able to see the editing techniques.
example of motivated editing-
example of motivated editing-
MULTIPLE POINTS OF VIEW AND PARALLEL EDITING
Difference
The difference between analog and digital technologies is the type of way the film is produced. Analog is shooting film which is the most traditional form of filming. The benefits is that creating areas which are more soft or blurry is easier, showing that it is shallower depth of field. It is a longer process of editing, and takes more time to come up with a final product. With digital it is done with a SD card or hard drive on a camera. The footage does not need to be processed. it is able to be watched on the set seconds after filming without having to wait. The film is digitized because more editing is now on computers, using programmers as such "Final Cut Pro", which differs from the traditional way of analog.