5-1 ELEMENTS OF EDITING
Cut assembling Hitchcock (watch up to 5.45min)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NG0V7EVFZt4&feature=youtu.be
• The technique of shot/reverse shot involves alternating shots of two characters as they converse. With this technique, we not only see each character as he or she speaks, but we also get reaction shots that show us how the listener is responding.
Shot reverse shot Cohen (no need for the whole thing)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5UE3jz_O_EM
• In Soviet montage theory, the meaning of one shot is always subject to the previous and subsequent shots. Meaning is a matter not of singular content but of context.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xgC-08AVR70
Montage editing (not the soviet thing)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rBNnHlqO4cs
• An eye line match is two shots: one shot showing us someone looking and the next shot showing us who or what he or she is looking at.
Eye line matching, Hitchcock 5.50
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NG0V7EVFZt4&feature=youtu.be
• Editing is used to create tonal (light-to-dark and dark-to-light) and graphic patterns in a sequence.
• The process of cutting back and forth between parallel actions is called cross-cutting. It cues filmgoers to read the actions as parallel. This form of parallel editing is well suited to cinematic events like rescues and chases.
• Tempo or rhythm is created in editing by working with the length of shots. The long take, a single continuous shot of unusually long duration, may offer commentary on the boredom inherent in the modern condition, or it may be used to match the leisurely pace of premodern America. The use of editing techniques to speed up the tempo is characteristic of “thrill-ride” American filmmaking.
• Parallel editing is generally supported by consistent screen direction, which maintains the relationship between, for example, the pursuer and the pursued in a chase sequence.
Continuity editing
From min 7.00 8.10 Grifith then from 9.05 Definition of continuity editing
Elliptical editing, where cuts move us along in the plot by removing parts of the larger story, is a crucial technique in the management of narrative time.
http://www.criticalcommons.org/Members/bnd/clips/elliptical-editing-in-citizen-kane/view
Art of promo editing: