Unit 16: Assignment Brief 1: Task 3: Editing Key Conventions

Continuity is a key convention in editing, it allows a film to make complete sense or is able to cuase the audience to become confused and not understand the film. The way that continuity is created is by keeping the mise en scene the same throughout a scene and from shotto shot. the continuity also helps to make the time of a movie to appear real time with things happening and having a consequence. 

The montage is an important technique to use if the director wants a ast amount of time to go by but whilst still keeping a form of narrative and story telling to the audience. An example of this is in Rocky where it shows hime training and becoming bigger and better at boxing by adding clips together which are showing the illusion of time passing. Another type of montage is where two seperate clips are placed together and is then given a third meaning.

Jump cutting in a film is used to create the illusion of time passing and is usually done by cutting whilst either keeping the same speech/ conversation resuming or keeping the same background but changing the way a character looks. An example of jump cutting being used is in a bout de souffle.

 

Parallel editing can be used to create suspense and is when the shot changes to another location or person whilst keeping the illusion that both of the events are happening at the same time. I fhtere is a scene of a woman taking a shower and singing then this would most likely be a happy scene but if paralell editing is used to show some men in a van pull up outside the house wearing masks then the scene would chagne and the audience would scared and know that something bad is about to happen.

There are two ways that an audience is able to view a film and this is in three dimensions or two dimensions. In two dimensions there is a rule called the 180 degree rule and this is an importnat rule. This rule uses an imaginary line that cuts across the real world and is a place where the camera is not allowed to becuase it will cause the audience to be confused. The reason why the audience would get confused is becuase when the line is passed, objects that are on the right will then be shown to appear on the left which will cause would be ery likely to cause confusion.

Transtitions are the most important thing that a film can use and this is because there would only be one shot if no transitions were used. The most common transition is a cut and this is the most simple. The cut transition is an instant change from one shot to another. The next transition is a dissolve which can also be called a mix or crossfade and is a gradual change from one shot to the next by lowering the opacity of the previous shot and the next showing increasing it's opactiy. 

A fade is the next type of transition and is when the shot slowly goes into a single colour such as black or white. This is usually used as an end of a film or if someone is waking up from sleeping/coma/accident.

A wipe transition is when the next shot introduced by a geometric shape either moving across the screen or increasing/decreasing in size. This type of transition os most famous in the Star Wars films and is not common in film, especially Hollywood films.