Editing Worksheet

 
                                                  Editing Worksheet. 


1. What does editing do?
       
 Editing assembles all of the shots that have previously been taken, into a whole piece so that it flows effectively one after the other.

2. How does it work?

For editing to work, it requires precision, and film and video is therefore time-coded, with minutes, seconds and frame numbers, so that it makes sense when putting all of the frames together. In the editting process, shots that work or fit in our selected, made to the right length and put together in sequences. Then the soundtrack or other effects are added.

3. Describe each of the following editing terms:

• Cut: This is the most common transition from one shot to the next shot. It happens by one shot quickly replacing it with another. Within a continous scene, shots are usually strung together by cuts.

• Dissolve: It sees one shot fade out while another fades in. During the dissolve, both shots are on screen at the same time, visible through each other.

• Fade: There are two types of Fading effects; fade to black which is followed by black screen or the fade up or fade in.

4. How does the shot reverse shot help the narrative or generate meaning?

 For example, the shot/reverse shot pattern ensures a sense of spatial coherence, which means it makes the audience feel like they are in the room/conversation. It makes the audience feel like the camera isn't jumping from one character to another.

5. Why is the 180 degree rule important?

 It makes the space and movement seem effortlessly understandable, to help hide their edit points, and so to help to contribute to the action.

6. How and why is the point of view shot used?

The audience appear to look through the eyes of a character and they see what the character should see. The point of view shot can also be created through the use of a mobile camera. This is often used in the horror and thriller genres, to suggest to the audience someone spying on someone or something else within the horror film.

7. What is parallel or cross cut editing?

An early development of the continuity system was parallel editing or cross-cutting between two, sometimes three or more, simultaneous actions taking place at different locations.

8. What editing techniques are used to generate suspense?

Cross Cutting is an editing technique that is used to generate suspense. For example, a victim approaching a monster/villian is a great element that will generate suspense and this is usually shot with a movement towards closer shots of the victim, each time the audience cut back to the victim, the shot is closer still.

9. Explain in your own words how the mouse sequence creates tension.

It creates tension because first the suspense is built using different edits and then everything stops and goes quiet, building tension because the audience wants to know what happens. Then, all of a sudden there is a big crash or a sudden noise which makes the audience jump.

10. Why is timing important in editing?

Timing is important in editing because not it is not only in the creation of suspense for the film or i is in the revelation of crucial narrative details at exactly the right moment.

11. Explain in your own words what the continuity system is?

A edit generally used with cinemas to cut from one shot to another without looking like it has been edited. This could be by invisible editing, eye-line matches, and cutting on action.

12. Why does editing strive to be invisible?

If editing wasn't invisible, then the film wouldn't have the same effect on the audience because if a clip wasn't edited into another by cut, then the two edits wouldn't flow together properly and it wouldn't look finished.