Directions Unit: Edit Workshop
Editing is about storytelling. Its important to know about editing before filming because you need to know what to film and how it will work in the edit. The very first narrative film to use editing s a storytelling device was The Great Trap Robbery.
The language of film editing has developed over the years, refining every generation. Up to the early 2000's, all films were edited together using a machine called a Steenbeck, splicing the film together with sellotape. Making a single cut could take a few minutes, which meant every cut had to make a difference. It taught you the economics of storytelling. Though there are exceptions, if you look at the film from before the 1990s, there is always a lot less cutting in them.
The physical process meant films were 'slower' in pace. In the digital age there are more cuts and a lot faster pace.
Video Linear editing meant placing one shot after the other. You would record one, then record the one next to it. You cannot mover shots about., and start again without starting all over again. The MTV cut. There would be lots and lots of machines to make it a quicker process, but it was still linear.
There was resistance at first but by the early 2000's most editors went digital.
The most common professional system is Avid. Final Cut Pro 7. Learning from premier is easier to go to Avid as they are very similar systems.
Continuity Editing. The French New Wave rallied against the classic Hollywood system. Similar to montaging, but they didn't care for continuity.
Continuity editing is the first layer of creating the continuous story. Just trying to include the bits that tell the story not the bits that aren't important in telling the story.
And editor doesn't care what you went through to film, they just want it to work. Editor and director have a love hate relationship. The simple rule of less=more applies all the way throughout the editing process. The biggest mistake is to have too much material. The most creative layer of editing is creating the drama of a scene, through pacing, rhythm and emotion. It doesn't just mean "fast cutting". A film paced too quickly leaves the audience behind and paced too slowly loses their interest.
can show the listener when the person is talking if it has purpose. Start slow and end with a BANG or start with a BANG and end slow if it works.
The Sopranos -Watch
POV from him and sees himself. Get pacing and changes point of view.
Emotion-Creating a real dramatic emotion in a scene is the cornerstone of great editing and hardest skill to pull off. You can create love, sadness, tension, danger etc. A scene of tension is created by holding shot then cutting, action will be quicker. All open to creative adjustments.
Atonement. -Watch
Where you position characters in the scene is crucial in editing. Someone could be doing all the talking, but if you focus on someone else in the scene, who isn't talking where does the power shift to?
Through the boys perspective. Made the set padded so actors could be involved to make it real. Make Alan Lad look bigger by making set smaller like lowering the bar.
Match on action is a very useful creative tool in editing, allowing for drama.
Space oddity, showing the bone then millions of years later.
Cross-Cutting is an editing tool to create action or suspense. Can bring together parts of a story that are happening at the same time.
The Godfather- Cross cutting is very effective from christening to all his rivals he killed
Montage where you can take lots of different shots to build up a period of time. Character development without detail.
Fade/dissolve are the oldest creative tools in terms of cutting. You fed to black in one scene and up in the next.
Editing Stages:
Log: Log all material and start naming it.
Assembly Cut: All scenes assembled in the right order
Rough Cut: You cut into assembly adding in shots.
Fine Cut: Creating drama , close to finished length
Final Cut: Its all done, though keep tweaking
The language of film editing has developed over the years, refining every generation. Up to the early 2000's, all films were edited together using a machine called a Steenbeck, splicing the film together with sellotape. Making a single cut could take a few minutes, which meant every cut had to make a difference. It taught you the economics of storytelling. Though there are exceptions, if you look at the film from before the 1990s, there is always a lot less cutting in them.
The physical process meant films were 'slower' in pace. In the digital age there are more cuts and a lot faster pace.
Video Linear editing meant placing one shot after the other. You would record one, then record the one next to it. You cannot mover shots about., and start again without starting all over again. The MTV cut. There would be lots and lots of machines to make it a quicker process, but it was still linear.
The most common professional system is Avid. Final Cut Pro 7. Learning from premier is easier to go to Avid as they are very similar systems.
Continuity Editing. The French New Wave rallied against the classic Hollywood system. Similar to montaging, but they didn't care for continuity.
Continuity editing is the first layer of creating the continuous story. Just trying to include the bits that tell the story not the bits that aren't important in telling the story.
And editor doesn't care what you went through to film, they just want it to work. Editor and director have a love hate relationship. The simple rule of less=more applies all the way throughout the editing process. The biggest mistake is to have too much material. The most creative layer of editing is creating the drama of a scene, through pacing, rhythm and emotion. It doesn't just mean "fast cutting". A film paced too quickly leaves the audience behind and paced too slowly loses their interest.
can show the listener when the person is talking if it has purpose. Start slow and end with a BANG or start with a BANG and end slow if it works.
The Sopranos -Watch
POV from him and sees himself. Get pacing and changes point of view.
Emotion-Creating a real dramatic emotion in a scene is the cornerstone of great editing and hardest skill to pull off. You can create love, sadness, tension, danger etc. A scene of tension is created by holding shot then cutting, action will be quicker. All open to creative adjustments.
Atonement. -Watch
Where you position characters in the scene is crucial in editing. Someone could be doing all the talking, but if you focus on someone else in the scene, who isn't talking where does the power shift to?
Through the boys perspective. Made the set padded so actors could be involved to make it real. Make Alan Lad look bigger by making set smaller like lowering the bar.
Match on action is a very useful creative tool in editing, allowing for drama.
Space oddity, showing the bone then millions of years later.
Cross-Cutting is an editing tool to create action or suspense. Can bring together parts of a story that are happening at the same time.
The Godfather- Cross cutting is very effective from christening to all his rivals he killed
Montage where you can take lots of different shots to build up a period of time. Character development without detail.
Fade/dissolve are the oldest creative tools in terms of cutting. You fed to black in one scene and up in the next.
Editing Stages:
Log: Log all material and start naming it.
Assembly Cut: All scenes assembled in the right order
Rough Cut: You cut into assembly adding in shots.
Fine Cut: Creating drama , close to finished length
Final Cut: Its all done, though keep tweaking
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