Editing Film

I learned many things from this film all about editing. Some of these things include:

Mise-en-scene refers to the center of the screen being the main focus or main person of the film.

Before the films we have today were introduced, there were things such as actualities. Actualities were movies that were not edited and had no story. Actualities were pioneered by Lumiere in the mid 1890s, around 1895. They were popular from 1895-1903.

Continutiy editing seeks to achieve logic, smoothness, sequentiality and the temporal and spatial orientation of viewers to what they see on the screen.

Classical cutting refers to up close shots of characters. Not only do we see the exaggerated actions of characters anymore, we can see their faces and expressions.

Montage editing refers to the juxtaposition of images to create meaning not found in either individual shot by itself.

Eisenstein was an emotional and political pioneer for the film world. He experimented with discontinuity, which refers to the relationship of shots create meaning, and no single shot tells the story. It's like a puzzle, you need all the pieces for the finished product. One example of this could be Way Down East.

180 Degree Rule - Do not film so that there is never a space larger than 180 degrees between the camera and the focus of the shot. This will completely disoriente the viewer and look very choppy as well.

Films such as The Great Train Robbery exemplify the idea of beginning and ending of action with a cut in between. The audience then needs to assume that things have been cut out. Parallell action is also shown in this film and refers to the idea of two stories going on at once. For example, the train being robbed and the actions of all of the robbers.