Tuesday, 26 April 2016
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Sunday, 24 April 2016
Editing Rhythm
What is Editing rhythm?
This refers as pacing to a varying of the length by an editor.
- Pacing is an essential role in which guides viewers and their emotional responses to a scene within a film.
- High/ Rapid pacing can suggest that the scene is intensive and exciting
- Low/ Slower pacing would however be more relaxed and thoughtful
An Example of Rhythm Editing:
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MExM2ZW9h3o)
Such as:
With defining pacing within a film scene and establishing the rhythm between them, an editor has to answer key questions based on his/her understanding of the sequence as a whole.
- Where would a particular shot fit into a sequence and cause the most impact?
- Which shot should be used a medium or a close-up?
- Which shots contain the better visuals to provide exposition or characterisation?
- What is the most effective use of timing in the fact that two things are being seen within shots with contrasting effect?
This refers as pacing to a varying of the length by an editor.
- Pacing is an essential role in which guides viewers and their emotional responses to a scene within a film.
- High/ Rapid pacing can suggest that the scene is intensive and exciting
- Low/ Slower pacing would however be more relaxed and thoughtful
An Example of Rhythm Editing:
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MExM2ZW9h3o)
Such as:
With defining pacing within a film scene and establishing the rhythm between them, an editor has to answer key questions based on his/her understanding of the sequence as a whole.
- Where would a particular shot fit into a sequence and cause the most impact?
- Which shot should be used a medium or a close-up?
- Which shots contain the better visuals to provide exposition or characterisation?
- What is the most effective use of timing in the fact that two things are being seen within shots with contrasting effect?
Rhythm in media:
- This is where sequences within shots are the same length and may result in a rhythm which is less distinct.
Within a horror sequence, creating a distinctive rhythm - where the rational is to generate in the viewer feelings of burgeoning tension and suspense - requires that the length of shots should vary.
Saturday, 23 April 2016
Providing & Withholding information
Why do this?
- Providing and withholding information is a very strategic strategy which is used by the editor to keep the viewer engaged.
- It is used to generate good effects in genres such as horror and thriller. This is when the audience isn't aware about what is happening within the physical space the action is situated in is of importance to gather the audiences emotional response.
- Information can often be provided by employment within cutaways or cut-ins or withheld by the absence of these shots.
Example:
- An editor of a horror scene where a character is being hunted by an attacker may elect to use footage shot from the former's POV.
- In the right setting, a vast amount of tension can be generated by the viewers being able to see events unfolding through their eyes of the victim to be, from his POV turning it with them
- Providing and withholding information is a very strategic strategy which is used by the editor to keep the viewer engaged.
- It is used to generate good effects in genres such as horror and thriller. This is when the audience isn't aware about what is happening within the physical space the action is situated in is of importance to gather the audiences emotional response.
- Information can often be provided by employment within cutaways or cut-ins or withheld by the absence of these shots.
Example:
- An editor of a horror scene where a character is being hunted by an attacker may elect to use footage shot from the former's POV.
- In the right setting, a vast amount of tension can be generated by the viewers being able to see events unfolding through their eyes of the victim to be, from his POV turning it with them
Friday, 22 April 2016
Montage
Defining Montage;
The term left in film refers from the French.
Monter [Verb] - to assemble
Montage [Noun] - assembly
When montage refers to techniques within film editing techniques, it has three senses:
- In French film practice, "montage" has it's own literal French meaning. For example; assembly, installation and simply identifies editing.
- In Soviet film making within the 1920's "montage" was a method of juxtaposing shots to derive new meaning that did not exist in either shot alone.
- Whereas, in classical Hollywood cinema, a "montage sequence" refers different and is a short segment in a film which narrative information is presented in a more condensed fashion.
An Example of Montages:
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rBNnHlqO4cs)
Hollywood Montage:
- This is a different montage style that became convention during the classical Hollywood era and remained one of the very popular techniques to be used by directors and editors throughout the twentieth century and still do now.
- The montage sequence which it is referred to consists of a wide series of short shots that are edited into a sequence to condense the overall narrative. It usually used to advance the story as a whole, often to suggest the passage of time, rather than to create symbolic meaning.
- In most but not all cases music is tended to be played in the background this reinforces the message which is being conveyed.
An example of Hollywood Montage;
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eO45Dr_NA8o)
With the music which is introduce within different times within the many scenes which are shown. This allows me to see that it is condensed into the way that it is converted around in many short scenes. Which also conveys more into expressing what the scene is meant to show. This therefore allowing a clearer understanding for the audience to gain from the music montages.
Soviet Montage:
- In this theory, the editing of shots tend to create different meaning such as its symbolic meaning.
Lev Kuleshov:
- For Kuleshov editing a film is like constructing a building. Brick-by-brick (shot-by-shot).
- He conducted an experiment which was conducted to show that montage can lead the viewer to reach certain individual conclusions about the action in any films.
The Kuleshov Experiment:
- Kuleshov edited together a short film in which a shot of the expressions face of Tsarist matinee idol Ivan Mosjoukine was alternated with various other shots. For example; a plate of soup, a girl in a coffin, a woman on a divan.
Original Kuleshov Experiment:
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=1&v=4gLBXikghE0)
The experiment explained, the audience believed that when looking at Mosjoukine's face that he was sharing three facial expressions at to what he was looking at:
- Soup - Hunger
- Girl in Coffin - Grief
- Woman on the divan - Desire
- The footage of the idol, Mosjoukine was actually the same shot used three different times within the experiment.
Kuleshov's Conclusion:
- Montage only works because viewers infer meaning based on the context which is given.
The term left in film refers from the French.
Monter [Verb] - to assemble
Montage [Noun] - assembly
When montage refers to techniques within film editing techniques, it has three senses:
- In French film practice, "montage" has it's own literal French meaning. For example; assembly, installation and simply identifies editing.
- In Soviet film making within the 1920's "montage" was a method of juxtaposing shots to derive new meaning that did not exist in either shot alone.
- Whereas, in classical Hollywood cinema, a "montage sequence" refers different and is a short segment in a film which narrative information is presented in a more condensed fashion.
An Example of Montages:
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rBNnHlqO4cs)
Hollywood Montage:
- This is a different montage style that became convention during the classical Hollywood era and remained one of the very popular techniques to be used by directors and editors throughout the twentieth century and still do now.
- The montage sequence which it is referred to consists of a wide series of short shots that are edited into a sequence to condense the overall narrative. It usually used to advance the story as a whole, often to suggest the passage of time, rather than to create symbolic meaning.
- In most but not all cases music is tended to be played in the background this reinforces the message which is being conveyed.
An example of Hollywood Montage;
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eO45Dr_NA8o)
With the music which is introduce within different times within the many scenes which are shown. This allows me to see that it is condensed into the way that it is converted around in many short scenes. Which also conveys more into expressing what the scene is meant to show. This therefore allowing a clearer understanding for the audience to gain from the music montages.
Soviet Montage:
- In this theory, the editing of shots tend to create different meaning such as its symbolic meaning.
Lev Kuleshov:
- For Kuleshov editing a film is like constructing a building. Brick-by-brick (shot-by-shot).
- He conducted an experiment which was conducted to show that montage can lead the viewer to reach certain individual conclusions about the action in any films.
The Kuleshov Experiment:
- Kuleshov edited together a short film in which a shot of the expressions face of Tsarist matinee idol Ivan Mosjoukine was alternated with various other shots. For example; a plate of soup, a girl in a coffin, a woman on a divan.
Original Kuleshov Experiment:
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=1&v=4gLBXikghE0)
The experiment explained, the audience believed that when looking at Mosjoukine's face that he was sharing three facial expressions at to what he was looking at:
- Soup - Hunger
- Girl in Coffin - Grief
- Woman on the divan - Desire
- The footage of the idol, Mosjoukine was actually the same shot used three different times within the experiment.
Kuleshov's Conclusion:
- Montage only works because viewers infer meaning based on the context which is given.
Thursday, 21 April 2016
Cross Cutting & Parallel Editing
What is Cross Cutting and Parallel Editing?
With Cross cutting this refers to the editorial technique of cutting between the vast sets of action that can be occurring simultaneously or at different times.
Cross-cutting is often used to build suspense, this is by cutting away at a point of high tension in action so this then leaves the audience in suspense to wonder what will happen next.
However, with Parallel editing this is an editing technique which allows two or more simultaneous sets of action to then unfold within a single sequence in film.
What does Parallel editing create:
- It creates tension.
- Can show multiple points of view.
- Can create dramatic irony when the characters are unaware of events unfolding away from the main action.
Cross Cutting and Parallel Editing are both used to imply a relationship between different sets of action taking place.
What distinguishes cross-cutting from parallel editing is time.
An editor can cross-cut to shots from different time periods, but the term parallel editing is used to show two separate events scenes happening simultaneously.
An example of parallel editing;
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CQgtu2rEGvM)
An example of cross-cutting;
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QuRBZNECaFU)
With Cross cutting this refers to the editorial technique of cutting between the vast sets of action that can be occurring simultaneously or at different times.
Cross-cutting is often used to build suspense, this is by cutting away at a point of high tension in action so this then leaves the audience in suspense to wonder what will happen next.
However, with Parallel editing this is an editing technique which allows two or more simultaneous sets of action to then unfold within a single sequence in film.
What does Parallel editing create:
- It creates tension.
- Can show multiple points of view.
- Can create dramatic irony when the characters are unaware of events unfolding away from the main action.
Cross Cutting and Parallel Editing are both used to imply a relationship between different sets of action taking place.
What distinguishes cross-cutting from parallel editing is time.
An editor can cross-cut to shots from different time periods, but the term parallel editing is used to show two separate events scenes happening simultaneously.
An example of parallel editing;
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CQgtu2rEGvM)
An example of cross-cutting;
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QuRBZNECaFU)
Wednesday, 20 April 2016
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