Report On Development Of Editing Technique

Student name : Muna Abdi Student Number : 1241606

Developments in Editing Techniques

Student name : Muna Abdi Student Number : 1241606
Lecturers Name: Anthea Kennedy
Unit 31: Development and Techniques of Film and Video Editing

Lecturers Name: Anthea Kennedy
Unit 31: Development and Techniques of Film and Video Editing

Student name : Muna Abdi Student Number : 1241606

Table of Contents

1.

Introduction

2.

Early cinema/ editing

3.

Editing Techniques

4.

Soviet Montage

5.

French New Wave

6.

Bibliography

Lecturers Name: Anthea Kennedy
Unit 31: Development and Techniques of Film and Video Editing

Student name : Muna Abdi Student Number : 1241606 Introduction In this report I will be informing you of early cinema and editing as well as editing techniques like continuity editing, I will also be looking into what and how soviet montage and french new wave editing contributed to todays modern day form of editing. Early Cinema/Editing The filming industry we know now is an industry full of inventions and techniques that was mastered and developed. For example to make a movie or even a small video for family and friends we would use a computer editing software like final cut or alternative software on your mobile device is made to cater to your needs of being able to save your video in your memory device and take your time with editing and creating what you want and make the films you wish without a substantial amount of hard work.

Edward muybridge was a man known for cutting pieces of film and creating the illusion of a moving image this was ground­breaking because Edward Muybridge manage to do this by using many cameras and gathered together single images and combined them to make it seem like the image was moving it was also considered to be the first known moment of editing. George Melies who was well­known for his “trip to the moon” film and the fact that he made
300+ films in the period of his life which was remarkable considering the fact that things like final cut pro or adobe didn’t exist, the films he made was mainly factual what would be considered in this day and age as reality or documentary in the modern age.
Editing Techniques
D.W. Griffith is someone who is famous for using a technique that many are unaware but know very well when watching TV or going to the cinema, a technique known as parallel editing ­ parallel editing is when you see two action happening at the same time but are at different locations and allowing the audience to watch without noticing the shots being cut from one place to another making viewers pay more attention to the storyline this is called continuity of time and space. Griffith was known and acknowledge as the first to make a successful feature film it was called “birth of a nation” made in 1915 it allowed people to see a storyline, it was advanced for its time but might be seen as primitive now. Lecturers Name: Anthea Kennedy
Unit 31: Development and Techniques of Film and Video Editing

Student name : Muna Abdi Student Number : 1241606
Pioneers who experimented on film allowed people to think what can be done with film which revolutionised the entertainment industry for instance the techniques of editing can sometimes be used more in one genre than the other genres: Horror/Thriller: this genre is usually fast paced so it would use fast cutting technique to create suspense and a type of edge of the seat feel for audiences watching. Romantic­Comedy
: everyone has seen rom­com films that shows a scene of the main character which is slows down a lot more than its usual cutting this is to make it clear the importance of the character to the one who is viewing it. Action: as for action this would us a lot more fast cutting than the rest of the genres but also uses slow mo because of the scene that require more attention but this would be still more faster than your other genres because of the action involved.
Not all types of techniques are specifically related to one specific genre but rather the amount of times the technique is used in certain genres. Theory of montage “Several major contributions to the theory of montage were made by Soviet directors.
After the Russian Revolution of 1917,
Soviet
films were encouraged for their propaganda value, but film stocks were scarce. Soviet directors carefully studied the films of
D.W. Griffith and other masters to make the most effective use of their own meagre resources. One of those early Russian directors,
Lev Kuleshov
, conducted an experiment involving identical shots of an actor’s expressionless face. He inserted it in a film before a shot of a bowl of soup, again before a shot of a child playing, and still again before one of a dead old woman. An unsuspecting audience, asked to evaluate the actor’s performance, praised his ability to express, respectively, hunger, tenderness, and grief.” (Britannica.com,
2014)
(Closeupfilmcentre.com, 2014)
Russian early cinema allowed people to be more creative in how to express people emotion with editing and doing the best you got with the film you have.
Lecturers Name: Anthea Kennedy
Unit 31: Development and Techniques of Film and Video Editing

Student name : Muna Abdi Student Number : 1241606
Sergei Eisenstein was a soviet director that was used in russia to spread propaganda but was mainly known for creating theories and practising theory of montage.
What Eisenstein was trying to expression rather than film the same shots you can change what they audience can feel and react by using the right image, this allows the director to manipulate the audience’s emotion and in certain ways misinterpret the subjects supposed feeling whether it be the man above or any main character of a story. French New Wave

(Closeupfilmcentre.com, 2014)
The French New Wave of the late 1950s, one of the key movements of post­war European filmmaking, forever altered long­established notions of cinema style, themes, narrative and audience. (Anon, 2014)

The french new wave was also a moment that allow free thinking of how to film it was a time were filming outside was new, you can see in the film “breathless” by Jean­Luc Godard that people in the background was the public who were wondering what was going on. Conclusion In brief I do feel that the editing industry wouldn’t really exist if it wasn’t for pioneers who thought outside the box and created films to entertain people which allowed many within the creative sector to use these skills and create their vision because of it. Like inventions and all types of creativity early cinema and early editing is interwoven with each other, so many other sectors like gaming and more now use these techniques therefore showing that one industry can benefit another.
Lecturers Name: Anthea Kennedy
Unit 31: Development and Techniques of Film and Video Editing

Student name : Muna Abdi Student Number : 1241606

Bibliography motion picture. 2014. Encyclopædia Britannica Online. Retrieved 18 October, 2014, from http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/394107/motion­picture/52237/Montage Ewaneumann.com, (2014). theory of montage. [online] Available at: http://ewaneumann.com/websites/eisenstein/theory_of_montage.html [Accessed 25 Oct.
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Closeupfilmcentre.com, (2014). VERTIGO | "Tensional Differences": The Anxiety of
Re­Mediation in Jean­Luc Godard’s New Wave Films. [online] Available at: https://www.closeupfilmcentre.com/vertigo_magazine/issue­30­spring­2012­godard­is/tensio nal­differences/ [Accessed 25 Oct. 2014]. Anon, (2014). 1st ed. [ebook] Available at: http://www.filmeducation.org/pdf/resources/secondary/FrenchNouvelleVague.pdf [Accessed
25 Oct. 2014]

Lecturers Name: Anthea Kennedy
Unit 31: Development and Techniques of Film and Video Editing

Bibliography: motion picture. 2014. Encyclopædia Britannica Online. Retrieved 18 October, 2014, from  http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/394107/motion­picture/52237/Montage    Ewaneumann.com, (2014). theory of montage. [online] Available at:  http://ewaneumann.com/websites/eisenstein/theory_of_montage.html [Accessed 25 Oct.  2014].    Closeupfilmcentre.com, (2014). VERTIGO | "Tensional Differences": The Anxiety of  nal­differences/ [Accessed 25 Oct. 2014].     Anon, (2014). 1st ed. [ebook] Available at:  http://www.filmeducation.org/pdf/resources/secondary/FrenchNouvelleVague.pdf [Accessed  25 Oct. 2014]