Every film needs to be able to tell a story in order to interest the audience. it is important as the attention of a viewer must be captured during the film's running time. If the edit is poor then telling the story becomes difficult. Before a script has been produced there will have been some sort of an idea in place, a story to tell. The basic story is developed in pre-production along with the script. The director then decides how the story will be told.
relationship to genre
When it comes to editing, different genre's of film have different conventions, techniques and styles.
Comedy:
Bright scenes.
Day time
Cities
Food, sports equipment
Characters - Accident prone/idiotic, the 'straight man', the love interest.
Horror:
Dark scenes, Low key lighting
Isolated/small towns
POV shots
Disturbing sounds
Characters - lonely/psychotic antagonist, unremarkable lead who takes a journey to become the strongest of their group, the hopeless, the couple who have sex, strong/brave who dies early.
creating motivation
Combining shots into sequences is the most simple and most used method in film and video editing. It is just placing shots after one another, creating a seamless flow in order to become a full sequence. They describe the edit as invisible because it's almost as though you can't tell that editing has taken place.
creating pace
Creating pace is basically the creation of an emotion through the camera shots and movements, as well as the music. You expect lots of quick camera shots and movements as well as a piece of fast, up beat music in a car chase scene. The music has to be appropriate when playing it with a scene. Music creates pace, a good example of this is Jaws, the camera movements and shots are good when the shark is about to attack and does, but the music creates the pace letting the audience know the shark is coming, how close it's getting, how fast it is and then the moment of attack, it builds alot of tension having the audience on the edge of their seats.
Horror:
Dark scenes, Low key lighting
Isolated/small towns
POV shots
Disturbing sounds
Characters - lonely/psychotic antagonist, unremarkable lead who takes a journey to become the strongest of their group, the hopeless, the couple who have sex, strong/brave who dies early.
creating motivation
This is done by making the continuity of the project looks smooth, checking that one shot to another doesn’t jerk and that the position is in the same place for a perfect edit.
You have to keep the audience interested and motivated to watch the project you have made, if you do have jerky shots the audience will notice and can get frustrated by this and not want to watch it, when you gain experience from making smooth transitions from one shot to another, you will be able to make a continuous flow of the shots.
A conversation is a good example of creating motivation, instead of keeping one shot and seeing the back of the head of one of the people involved you can cut and use the 180° rule to keep the shots cutting to the person speaking and keeping the audience interested.
It is vital to cut at the appropriate and right time to make sure the narrative develops and progresses further.
Choosing the correct pace, depending on the genre of the film, of the cuts is also important.
In order to help persuade the audience how they feel about a scene or a character, the editing team needs to get it right when cutting from one scene to another or from one character to another.
Sound plays a bit part in creating motivation, too. For example, if a character hears a very loud noise, causing them to turn their head, cutting to the thing they are looking at keeps the audience interested.
combining shots into sequencesIn order to help persuade the audience how they feel about a scene or a character, the editing team needs to get it right when cutting from one scene to another or from one character to another.
Sound plays a bit part in creating motivation, too. For example, if a character hears a very loud noise, causing them to turn their head, cutting to the thing they are looking at keeps the audience interested.
Combining shots into sequences is the most simple and most used method in film and video editing. It is just placing shots after one another, creating a seamless flow in order to become a full sequence. They describe the edit as invisible because it's almost as though you can't tell that editing has taken place.
creating pace
Creating pace is basically the creation of an emotion through the camera shots and movements, as well as the music. You expect lots of quick camera shots and movements as well as a piece of fast, up beat music in a car chase scene. The music has to be appropriate when playing it with a scene. Music creates pace, a good example of this is Jaws, the camera movements and shots are good when the shark is about to attack and does, but the music creates the pace letting the audience know the shark is coming, how close it's getting, how fast it is and then the moment of attack, it builds alot of tension having the audience on the edge of their seats.
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