Editing Techniques

Editing Techniques

This week we looked at editing techniques, how they are used, why they are used and what kind of message it sends to the audience.

Here are some examples

Cutting Clips

Eye Line Match - Making eyes synchronous for characters and the audience

Graphic Match - Matching the sounds with the visual stimulus

Graphic match is very important as it prevents the audience from becoming nauseated and uncomfortable, it matches the visual. In this example if the sound was off by even a second the audience would be greatly disturbed as their immersion into the film is ruined.

Jump Cut

A transition from scene to scene

More commonly used in Hollywood films jump cuts get rid of any unnecessary and long parts of a scene, and the keep the audience's attention as to alot of people a long and boring shot would make the audience lose their attention toward the visual. 

Cross Cutting

Cutting between two or more scenes

Cross cutting is useful and important because it can show two different scene, usually with atleast one relation with action to keep the audience focused and interested. The audience feel more powerful because they have unrestricted narratives of the plot and use cross cutting to be able to do this. Cross cutting takes a otherwise boring part of a film and fuses it with an action filled part to keep the audience interested.

Parallel Editing

Continuously cutting between two or more scenes

Parallel editing is used at different times from a scene, unlike cross cutting which hapens at the same time. In this example we can see the living oxymoron that is the main character who is being religious but is also killing his rivals, the audience can get a better grasp of the main character's intentions or true nature

Cutaway

Using a character as a reference to move to another scene

In this example the cutaway is used as a comedy gag to entertain the audience and keep them interested. Without these cutaway gags the audience would probably be alot more bored without these small anecdotes.

Super - Imposition

Placing somebody or something that wasnt in the original take, but post production usually by fans

Super - imposition is used to place people into the film so that people will think that they were in the actual take. This gives an opportunity for fans to feel like they are actually talking to a movie star or anything else.

Visual Effects

Special effects

Lightsabers do not actually exist so they need to be made using visual effects so that the audience can immerse themselves in escape of their normal lives. Without visual effects this scene would have just looked strange as they two men waved around randomly and sporadically