shot reverse shot

a shot reverse shot is used to extend the understanding of the scene to the audience. An example of a shot reverse shot is. you see the pov of character b looking at character a talking then you cut to a pov of character a looking at character b it is the reverse shot of a shot.

Cutaways

A cutaway is a technique used to fix jump cuts or problems in an edit. it is when when you cut from the Primary or A roll action to some Secondary or B roll action. an example of this is if a there is a shot of someone talking then the next shot of them talking was shot at a different time and it is from a slightly different angle it causes a jump cut that needs to be fixed so the editor takes some B roll footage that has like a reaction shot from another character and cuts to that then it cuts to the A roll footage so that people don't notice the jump in the angle.

Motivated editing

the motivated edit is where the editor uses the footage to make decisions about where to cut to another shot. an example of this is in a conversation in a film if a person is talking then another person talks the editor will cut to the person who has started talking. when this happens the footage has been used to make the decision to cut to the shot of the other person talking.

basically when two people are talking and one of them stops and the other person starts. the person stopping talking is the motivation to cut to the next shot

Montages

a montage is a thematic edit in western film it is used to show the passage by cutting down a sequence of shots to show something that would normally take a long tim into a few minutes for example cutting down the sequence of someone training which would normally take days or week and putting it into a couple of minutes. an example of this is the rocky training sequence shown below.



cross dissolves are commonly used as the transition in a montage.

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

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Manipulation of Diagetic Time and Space

Diegesis is an name for the film world.

Manipulation of diagetic time and space is an explanation for how filmmakers manipulate time and space during films an example of this is a jump cut as an object moves with out anyone touching it instantly but in real life this would not be able to happen. An example of the manipulation of time is when the filmmaker cuts down something like a 5 year time period to a 5 minute one