General Editing Tips
- Think about how the order of your clips affects the piece. How can 2 shots next to each other create specific meaning?
- Consider the pacing of your clips and how pacing should be used to enhance your story
- It is usually best to cut on movement
- Consider hat kinds of transitions you use and whether they are necessary
- Often less is more when it comes to adding effects and transitions. If you add too many it can distract the viewer from the message of the video
Editing Techniques
- Give viewer they are watching one continuous sequence of events
- Film/ Video
- Number of shots
- Taken in different angles
- Taken in different times
- All shots edited together to flow as one
Assembly Edits
When you first put all your clips together, it is an assembly edit.
- Overlap of action from different angles
- After its edited together
- Sequence is tighter
- Sequence is shorter
The sequence is tighter and shorter because repetitive actions have been removed.
- When a cut is made it is on the action
- To make it flow better
Jump Cut Edits
- Cuts are unnatural
- Switches between shots of the same subjects
- Different angles
- Different places
- Sometimes its accidental
- It is used sometimes to
- Create tension
- Show time passing
Graphic Match Edits
Two scenes linked by images that have a similar look
eg.
- Matching shapes on a screen
Cross Cutting
Cut between one subject which is intercut with shots of another
- Good tool to build up tension
eg.
- Conversation between 2 people
- Actions taking place in two different locations
- Car racing towards someone
Pacing
Pacing is a rhythm of cuts or how long a shot is on screen
- Also known as "rhythm of an edited piece" or "how long each shot plays at screen"
- You need to give the viewer time to register each shot
- Editors say that you need to feel the change of shot
Good rule:
The second you get bored of a shot cut to the next one
Subject of an edited piece gives you clues on how it should be paced.
Eg.
Action Movies
- Short, quick Cuts
- To convey "edge of seat" feel
- Tension
- Breathlessness
- Longer to establish
- Slow pace
- Represents of the activity or mood
Cutting to the beat of the music helps establish the pace of the film.
Transitions
Slow Paced Documentary- Slowly Dissolve
- Cross Fade
- Slow Swipe
(The edits has to fit the subject)
Point of editing
When you're putting the clips together
- Editing shouldn't draw attention to itself
- Audience shouldn't notice that its overly edited
- It's ok to have cuts
- Simple = Better
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