EDITING TECHNIQUES!

 EDITING TECHNIQUES

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-What is editing?  

Editing is the process of selecting, arranging, and manipulating raw footage or content to create a final, polished product. Editing may include cutting and arranging scenes, adjusting timing, adding visual or audio effects, and refining the overall presentation to achieve the desired impact or message. It plays a crucial role in shaping the final narrative and aesthetic of a piece of media. 

Types of editing:

-Non continuity editing:  

It is an editing which refers to an approach in film or video editing that deliberately disrupts the conventional rules of continuity editing.

•Some techniques associated with non-continuity editing include:

1)Montage sequence: 

Rapid juxtaposition of unrelated shots or images to convey information, evoke emotions, or compress time in a non-linear manner.

2)Jump cuts: 

A jump cut in filmmaking is an edit to a single, sequential shot that makes the action appear to leap forward in time.

3)Flashbacks and Flashforwards:

 Disrupting the chronological order of events by presenting scenes from the past or future.

4)Mismatched Eyeline Matches: 

Violating the 180-degree rule or intentionally creating inconsistencies in the direction characters appear to be looking. 

-Continuity editing:

Continuity editing is an editing system used to maintain consistency of both time and space in the film. Continuity editing helps ground audiences in the reality of the film while establishing a clear and structured narrative.

The goal of continuity editing is to make the mechanisms of filmmaking invisible as to help the audience dismiss disbelief more easily. 

•Some techniques associated with continuity editing include: 

1)Match cut: 

A match cut is a direct transition between two or more similar shots. This links the two shots together to either maintain continuity, establish a connection or create meaning. The shots on either side of a match cut might share graphic or sound elements, or they may show the continuation of an action from one angle to the next. What matters is that the shots are connected through the match cut.

2)Parallel editing/ cross-cutting:

Parallel editing is when a video editor jumps between two different scenes. The scenes take place in two different locations but simultaneously in the world of the film.Parallel editing is a type of cross-cutting technique that best showcases contrast.

3)Eye line match:

Eyeline match is a film editing technique to indicate to the audience what a character is seeing.

4)180-Degree Rule: 

Keeping the camera on one side of an imaginary line, known as the axis of action, to maintain consistent spatial relationships and avoid disorientation.

5)Cut away shots:

A cutaway shot is a supplementary shot that “cuts away” from the main action to indicate something else in the space, such as an object or location.

6)Graphic match:

A graphic match cut is an edit in cinematography that uses elements of one scene in the transition to the next scene. The purpose is to create a visual match for different scenes that are not inherently linked, like scenes set in different locations, by having a second shot that — in some way — mirrors the first. 

7)Cut in shots:

Cut-ins emphasize a particular part of a scene, offering a close-up or detailed view of a specific point-of-focus.

•Some other are:

-Intercutting:

An intercut in film or video is an edited sequence that snaps back and forth between two or more camera shots that show a different course of action.

-Ellipses:

Ellipsis is a common procedure in film narrative, where movement and action unnecessary to the telling of a story will often be removed by editing.