Editing Contextual Study

Editing Contextual Study

Either present the information as;

• Word Document
• PPT
• Audio/Visual Report (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=si7rdUlkRsc)

You need to cover the following questions

• Define: What is editing?
• Overview of the history of editing
• Different editing styles (montage, in-camera, experimental, parallel, french new wave)
• What is classic hollywood editing? Also known as invisible editing
• What are the classic hollywood editing traits: 180' rule, eye-line, shot-reverse-shot
• What are the different editing transitions?
• Why edit - what is the purpose? how does it make meaning?
• Distinction: Analyse a specific scene and discuss how the editing makes meaning.

This wikipedia article is helpful as a starting point (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Film_editing) 

According to Walter Murch, when it comes to film editing, there are six main criteria for evaluating a cut or deciding where to cut. They are (in order of importance, most important first, with notional percentage values.):

• Emotion (51%) — Does the cut reflect what the editor believes the audience should be feeling at that moment?
• Story (23%) — Does the cut advance the story?
• Rhythm (10%) — Does the cut occur "at a moment that is rhythmically interesting and 'right'" (Murch, 18)?
• Eye-trace (7%) — Does the cut pay respect to "the location and movement of the audience's focus of interest within the frame" (Murch, 18)?
• Two-dimensional plane of the screen (5%) — Does the cut respect the 180 degree rule?
• Three-dimensional space of action (4%) — Is the cut true to the physical/spatial relationships within the diegesis?