Editing Flashcards
Editing
Technique in which footage shot production is resembled to tell a story
Paradigmatic shot
What is created within the shot
Syntagmatic shot
How the shot relates to other shots
Editors responsibilities
Spatial relationships between shots
Temporal relationship between shots
Overall rhythm of the film
Spatial relationships between shots
Painting a mental picture of the space of a scene
Temporal relationship between shots
Manipulates presentation of plot time on the screen
Rhythm
Determines duration of shot, controls the rhythm by varying duration of shots in relation to each other.
montage editing
consists of a series of short shots that are edited into a sequence to condense narrative or to allow audience to deduce their own meaning
(editing technique in which shots are juxtaposed in an often fast-paced fashion that compresses time and conveys a lot of information in a relatively short period.)
continuity editing
Continuity editing- A system of cutting to maintain continuous and clear narrative action.
Eisenstein ideas
Opposing or colliding shots move from one mode to another
Montage
Technique of using different shots, of seemingly unrelated footage, and from there allowing the audience to come up with their own meaning to the sequence of shots
Parallel editing
continuity editing technique that alternates back and forth between scenes
Temporal ellipses
using editing to signify the passage of time