Editing

Once we had learnt about Camera shots, angles and movements our teacher taught us about editing. His first sentence was, and I quote “Editing can make or break a production.” It is the part of the moving image process where the meaning or intention of the director is realized.

Editing is the process of taking the raw footage and arranging it to create meaning so that it is clear and creates the desired effect. Editors decide what to keep and what to remove from the raw footage , in what order the footage is to be seen and how it will be joined together through a variety of techniques to make sense to the viewer.And therefore in my opinion editing is a very essential part of the whole process.

The application that I use for editing is Adobe Premiere Pro.

Types of editing

Cut: A transition where one shot is instantly followed by another.

Continuity Editing: Visual editing where shots are cut together in a clear and linear flow of uninterrupted action. This type of cutting seeks to maintain a continuous sense of time and space.

Continuity Error: When the action or elements of a scene don’t match across shots. For example, when a character breaks a glass window but in a later shot the window is shown undamaged.

Cross Cutting: Technique used to give the illusion that two story lines of action are happening at the same time by rapidly cutting back and forth between them.

Cutaway: The interruption of a continuously filmed action with a shot that’s peripherally related to the principal action.

Dissolve: When the end of one shot overlaps the start of the next one to create a gradual scene transition.