Week 6: Film Editing I Flashcards
What is editing?
The co-ordination of one shot with the next.
What is a “shot?”
A single, uninterrupted series of frames.
What are examples of transitions?
Cut, fade-in/out, dissolve, wipe
What are three films by the Lumber brothers made in early cinema before editing?
Workers Leaving the Lumiere Factory, The Arrival of a Train, The Sprinkler Sprinkled
A Trip to the Moon details
- Very basic editing: for most part, one scene = one shot
- dissolves signal shifts in time and space
- some “in-camera” editing (trick shots)
- a single, continuous line of action (clear temporal relations)
- unvarying camera distance (as in theatre)
What are lines of action?
Actions taking place in different spaces
What did D.W Griffith make a more sophisticated use of?
- mise-en-scene
- cinematography
- editing
What are Griffith’s “associative editing” techniques?
reducing the camera distance to enhance suspense
What are the four dimensions of film editing?
Graphic, rhythmic, spatial, temporal. This is how an editor controls various kinds of relations between shots.
What are graphic relations?
Purely pictorial in nature. Shots may be matched or mis-matched in terms of their colours, light, shapes, composition, etc. (ex. Promising Young Woman scene where Cassie receives the video)
What are rhythmic relations?
Involve the pace of editing relative to the pace of the action. Fewer, longer takes slow the pace; more, shorter takes increase it.
In continuity editing, the aim is to keep the pace of editing consistent with the desired mood.
What are spatial relations?
The pairing of shots can suggest the space of the action, even if that space isn’t actually contiguous. Such pairings can also shape how we interpret individual shots in a sequence.
What is the “Kuleshov effect?”
An effect that the audience derives new interpretations from composition and sequence
What is an eyeline match?
A technique that informs the viewer to what the character sees
What are temporal relations?
How story time is being manipulated (order, duration and frequency) Editing offers cues to this.
