storytelling

storytelling is the main job of an editor, the goal of the editor is to make a seamless edit which is an edit that tells the story well to the audience and they don't think about the editing of the film and so they focus on the actual story.

continuity is what makes a good seamless edit as continuity is the idea of maintaining things in the scene in the film to make the story make sense. it is important to have good continuity in a film so that the story makes sense to the audience. there are three threads of continuity; Audio, Visual and Narrative. An example of audio continuity is if the film makers film a scene on a busy street with traffic noise then re film the scene from a different angle and there is no traffic noise, this would create a continuity error. visual continuity is if come one is holding a cup that is blue then the scene cuts to a different angle and the cup changes colour to black. an example of narrative continuity is if a character is really up set.



Pace
one of the jobs of an editor is to create pace in a film this to help keep the audience interested. to keep them interested you have to vary the pace. this helps to build suspense and anticipation of what is about to happen and keep them interested. the ways editors vary the pace of a film are using shots of different lengths for example lots of short quick shots set a faster pace and lots of long shots slows the pace. another way is by changing the speed of the shot so a slow motion shot slows the pace.
you can also create pace using sound effects and music fast music sets a fast pace and slow music sets a slow pace. another way of creating pace is with shot selection. slowing the pace down helps to build suspense and anticipation of what is about to happen in a scene and a fast pace scene helps to make the audience exited.

it is important to vary the pace because if the pace is slow all the way through the audience will get bored and if the pace is fast all the way through the audience will get overwhelmed. so it is important to vary the pace as it helps to make the audience