Assignment

Editing has changed a lot over the years, lumiere brothers changed the was photography was looked at. The lumiere brothers dad use to make the photography equipment. Louis started trying new things with the equipment and he found a new dry plate process in 1881. The 'dry plate' process is now known as the 'Etiquette Bleue' process and helped his fathers business.

DW Griffiths changed the way editing was looked at, he was much more livelier when cuting his scenes .  He would shoot from different angles and distances and cut them and put them together. Edwin S Porter wasn't as lively, he took a more causious approach when cutting and he would cut them so they were Brocken into different scenes. Edwin S Porter made the great train robbery in 1903, the great train robbery was a one reel film. One reel film, The one reel film has a running time of twelve minuets and was made in twenty different shots and included a close-up of a bandit firing at the camera. The film had as many as ten different outdoor and indoor locations. No film had done this before.

Kuleshov effect. The kuleshov effect was a short film edited together to make the audience think that the person in the film was changing his expression when he looked at different things however it was actually the same shot each time. He was looking at three different things on being a plate of soup, a girl in a coffin and a woman on a divan, when he was looking at these thing the audience thought the expressions were hungar, grief or desire but in actual fact it was the same shot and expression all three times. In my opinion the kuleshov effect is explained the best by Hitchcock as it has a sense of humour  here it is.

Editing is used so the bad parts of what is recorded can be cut out and not seen in the final product. Editing is also used in the relationship of the genre, development of drama, engaging viewer and creating motivation. The purpose of editing can be seen as being very significant; the editing itself is effective as it sets a meaning for the film one good example would be the bourne ultimatum in the chase scene. It cuts between bourne running through houses jumping and a woman walking in a house then when the action starts it cuts even faster and while it’s doing this it is building up tension and gets your heart racing.

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 Fast cutting is a film editing technique which refers to several consecutive shots of a brief duration (3 seconds or less). It can be used to convey a lot of information very quickly, or to imply either energy or chaos. Fast cutting is also frequently used when shooting dialogue between two or more characters, changing the viewer's perspective to either focus on the reaction of another character's dialog, or to bring to attention the non-verbal actions of the speaking character

Shot reverse shot is a film technique where one character is shown looking at another character, and then the other character is shown looking back at the first character. Since the characters are shown facing in opposite directions, the viewer assumes that they are looking at each other. A good example is in Spiderman  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h0xiCIMIwLY