Directing - Editing styles

In this workshop, Simon showed us different styles of editing within a film and told us that editing is unique only to film making as it is known as 'invisible art'.

The three main types he spoke about were:
Editing = joining shots together to make a long sequence that shows a complete story
Continuity editing
Montage

Editing enables emotions, drama, rhythm and action through story-telling.

Up to the early 2000's, film was still being edited through splicing it together with sellotape. This was because:
  • 'Economics of story-telling'
  • A single cut could take several minutes
  • Less cutting before 1990's - 'slower' pace / more editing = 'quicker' pace
Linear editing: One shot is edited to be one after another to be in order, however, because of the way films were edited back then, the edits cannot be moved unless the editor wants to start again.
Non-linear editing: Combined freedom of film edits and the speed of video editing
French New Wave: The first showings of  'crossing the line' (180* rule) and jump-cuts

We were also given a task to do, which meant editing footage to create two focuses, one of Alan, and one on Effie. This is the final edit fo the workshop below:





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