Neha Raithatha

What is editing?
Editing is the placing of separate shots together. It allows a director to manipulate space and time E.g. hundreds of miles or a long period of time can be reduced to a few scenes that appear perfectly natural and believable to the audience.
CONTINUITY EDITING Continuity edits when two shots seem to fit together naturally and smoothly and can almost be unnoticeable. They create a realistic and seamless flow to the narrative where an event leads naturally into its result. 180 degree rule: Axis of action- an imaginary straight line between protagonists It ensures spatial continuity The characters never cross this line

Rule of thirds: Cuts must move by at least 30 degrees to avoid a jump cut or tangent cut

MATCHING SHOTS To overcome a sense of distance or disunity the change of shots would cause, shots are matched to make the transitions from shot to shot invisible. Follow cuts - follow an action to its consequence e.g. eye-line matches where a character looking at something off-screen, the next shot would show the object that they were looking at. Sound-bridge a sound edit that allows sound from one shot to cross into the next to create continuity.

MONTAGE Montage a series of shots that are edited together to create a kind of individual unit of meaning. Instead of placing shots to show a linear narrative development, montages place apparently unrelated images next to each other and the juxtaposition of this combines the connotation of the two images to create a third overall meaning. A good example of this is Vertovs Man with a Movie Camera where an image of a money printing press was placed next to the shot of a powerfully flowing river to create the meaning of the forceful power of capitalism. In a montage, images with similarities or something in common can also be placed together in order to emphasise their meaning.