Examples of editing:
Editing can make a massive change to the way we watch films. There are many different ways to edit clips here are some of the different ways:
Cut:
Definition: A cut is where there is a quick change from one shot to the other. It can range from many different shots. For example, a close up to a extreme close up or a wide shot. It will always be changing.
A cut can : - Compress time. -build up on an image. - vary the P.O.V. - change the scene.
Dissolve:
- This is where there is a transition between two shots where the first image will gradually disappear while the second one takes it place.
- A fade out and a fade in.
Wipe:
- A transition between shots where a line will pass on the screen revealing the new image.
- One shot will be replaced with the other shot.
Fades:
- A fade out of one shot, then a fade in of another. The image will rapidly become black to make sure that the next scene can be followed.
Graphic Match:
- Two shots that are connected, a strong similarity between the two images.
- A smooth transition.
Eye-line Match:
- The first image showing the individual that is looking at some in-particular, then an after shot of what the individual is looking at.
Superimposition:
- An exposure of more than one image that is placed into the same film strip. It is not a fade or a dissolve is just allows one pro-former to be seen in one place then another.
Shot/Reverse shot:
- Shots that have been edited together. This to show the two different actors perspectives looking at how one individual sees it and then the same with the other.
Iris:
- An ending or an opening to a scene. A mask that moves around an image, bringing it out or in. To reveal an image and its detail or to close it.
Match on action:
- Two different views of the same action together at the same time with the same movement.
Montage:
- A high amount of images which may tell a story about an individual.
- They may be used to compress time or to show a process of development.
Split screen:
- This is the division between to screens, this showing different images but at the same time.
- Used to create excitement on a certain activity.
Slow motion:
- An action which will be slower than others. It will move at a much slower rate then it would have when it was originally taken.