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EDITING NOTES
Editing establishes the structure and content of the production along with the productions overall mood, intensity, and tempo.
Continuity editing refers to arranging the sequence of shots to suggest a progression of events. ...
Changing Expected Continuity
Continuity editing primarily suggests guiding an audience through a sequence of events and, in the process, showing them what they want to see when they want to see it. ...
Sometimes for dramatic effect and to keep an audience guessing (for a while) you may want to use editing to intentionally delay answering an obvious question. ... )
Acceleration Editing
In film and video production time is routinely condensed and expanded. ...
Causality
Often, a part of continuity editing is to suggest or explain cause. A good script (enhanced by good editing) suggests or explains why things happen. ... Although strict continuity editing would dictate that we present events in a logical sequence, it would make a more interesting story—one that would be more likely to hold an audience—if we present the result first and reveal the cause gradually over time. ... We introduced these previously, but now lets look at these from the standpoint of editing. ...
In the editing process we have to rely on regular insert shots and cutaways to effectively present the elements of a story. ...
Relational Editing
Many years ago, the Russian filmmakers Pudovkin and Kuleshov conducted an experiment in which they juxtaposed a scene of a man sitting motionless and totally expressionless in a chair with various other scenes. ...
Thus, one of the most important tenets of editing was experimentally established: the human tendency to try to establish a relationship between a series of scenes.
In relational editing, scenes which by themselves seem not to be related take on a cause-effect significance when edited together in a sequence. ...
It is easy—and generally even desirable—to combine continuity and relational editing. However, when it comes to the next topic, thematic editing, these fundamental concepts change.
Thematic Editing
In thematic editing, also referred to as montage editing, images are edited together based only on a central theme. In contrast to most types of editing, thematic editing is not designed to tell a story by developing an idea in a logical sequence.
In a more general sense, thematic editing refers to (as they say in the textbooks) a rapid, impressionistic sequence of disconnected scenes designed to communicate feelings or experiences. This type of editing is often used in music videos, commercials, and film trailers (promotional clips). ...
From continuity, relational, and montage editing we now move to a technique for enriching editing and stories by adding extra "layers. ... In linear editing this process of recording on two separate videotapes makes things easier. With nonlinear editing two tapes arent necessary. ...
Editors depend greatly on this supplementary, B-roll footage to bridge a wide range of editing problems. Therefore, you should always take the time to tape a variety of B-roll shots on every interview—insert shots, cutaways, whatever you can get that might be useful in editing.
Another (and somewhat less than elegant) way of handling the jump cut associated with editing together nonsequential segments of an interview is to use an effect such as a dissolve between the segments. ...
This is hard to fix during editing, although some of the techniques weve outlined can help. ... )
Frequency response of mic or audio equipment
Audio levels
In single-camera production most of these inconsistencies are not easy to detect on location; its only when the various shots or takes start to be assembled during editing that you discover the problem. ...
With todays computer-based editing systems musical selections can be shortened or lengthened to accommodate accompanying video. ...
The video can also be slightly speeded up or slowed down with computer-based editing equipment, but youll want to do that as a last resort. ...
As will see later, all of this is fairly easy when you are using a nonlinear, computer-based editing system. ... ) With linear editing the process takes a bit more work and planning. ...
Editing systems often make use of a vectorscope for adjusting colours on tapes before editing starts. A vectorscope and a waveform monitor are both a part of the software of professional nonlinear editing systems. ... This page shows the various colour balance and luminance range settings available in one sophisticated nonlinear video editing system.
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