Sunday, 1 March 2015

EDITING TECHNIQUES

There are many types of editing techniques I will try to fufill in my short film. By using these editing techniques, i hope to create a proffessional and realistic short film.

Continuity techniques: 
• Establishing shot (establishes the space in which action is to happen) 
• The 180ยบ rule (ensures that the same space is described in each shot) 
• Shot/reverse shot 
• Eyeline match (e.g. character looks off-screen, next shot shows us what they see) 
• Match on action (character begins to move in one shot, we see continuation of the same movement in the next shot)


  • Non-Continuity:
  •  Montage – giving information in compressed form – can come under
  • • Non-continuity editing – Continuity is broken and construction is more apparent. Meaning often created through juxtaposition and metaphor shot inserts.
  • • For example, the Six Feet Under opening. 
  • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KYAe0qwg9Yw

  • Transitions
  • • The process of cutting from one shot to another usually involves a simple straight cut. However there are other means of transition available to a film editor such as,
  • • Fade to black
  • • Dissolve/cross fade
  • • Wipe

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