Styles of Editing

We have just learnt about different types of editing, and looked at films and film directors who have looked at different ways to edit their films.

The movement from one shot to the next is called a transition. There are many forms of this

Straight Cut: This is the most common form of transition, and isn't as noticeable as others. It happens when one shot moves to the next one without attracting the audience's attention.

Dissolves: This transition involves fading one shot off the screen while another shot is fading in. The audience will be able to see both shots on the screen. It is used if the director wants to show a connection.

Fades: This is a darkening or lightening of an image until it becomes black or white.It is used to indicate the end of a particular section of time. Fading transitions can also be used to show the passing of time in a film.

Wipes: One image is pushed off the screen by another.Images can be pushed left or right, and it is more common for the image to be pushed off the left-hand side as this movement is more associated with the sense of time moving forward. It is used to signal a movement between different locations within the same time frame.

Jump Cut: Jump cuts are the most effective way to get the audience's attention due to how quick and sudden they are - it draws them in within the space of a second. This occurs by breaking the continuity editing.It appears as if a section of the sequence has been removed.

Graphic Match: The film maker can choose to place shots in a certain order so as to create a smooth, visual transfer from one frame to the next. When two consecutive shots are matched in terms of the way they look, this is called a graphic match.

Montage theory:

The Kuleshov Effect is a film editing effect demonstrated by Soviet filmmaker lev kuleshov in the 1910s and 1920s. It is a mental phenomenon by which viewers derive more meaning from the interaction of two sequential shots than from a single shot in isolation.



The different images appear to change the expression on his face but in reality it is the same face used over and over, this can be used in filming to trick people into thinking different things as both images never appear on the screen together. you could act as though he was looking at one thing when in reality he was looking at something else.