Editing is a huge part of media language, in fact editing is a huge part of anything to do with film making. It’s important that my group and I are able to edit to the best of our ability so that when the time comes to edit our film together we can do so with ease.
Editing is simply the process of going through captured footage and connecting it together in order to produce a scene that helps in creating a film. Edwin Porter
Edwin Porter was an American born in 1870, and he was an early film pioneer. His most famous films were Life of an American Fireman and The Great Train Robbery, after his death he was remembered for being an important figure in motion picture history. In both of the films mentioned above Porter helped develop the concept of continuity editing. Continuity is continuous action shown in a sequence. The Great Train Robbery used editing techniques, techniques that had not been used before and therefore seen first in this film, such as parallel editing, jump/cross cuts and pan shots.
Montage
A montage is an editing technique that shows a series of short shots, they can be juxtaposed and used for condensing a time period into several shots that can relate and help to tell the story by conveying a lot of information in a relatively short period. A montage can also be defined as a series of seemingly unrelated shots that the audience must work to connect.
In our short film we aim to use a montage whilst Alan is watching the girls in their swimming gala. In this montage we hope to condense the information of some time that Alan and Sophie spent together, which can hopefully show the audience how close they are and possibly even how their relationship is developing. We can used more than one montage in our film, others possibly being scenes
that help develop the relationship of Alan and Sophie a lot more, helping in
highlighting just how close they are becoming.
Kuleshov Effect
The Kuleshov Effect is a film editing (montage) effect, first demonstrated in the 1910s and 1920s by Russian filmmaker Lev Kuleshov.
As shown in the picture above, the Kuleshov
effect puts the picture of a man‘s face alongside various other pictures in
order to create a mood and expression on the persons face, giving the audience
an idea of what that person is feeling. Within our film we can use the Kuleshov
effect to a certain extent when filming a montage for Alan in the swimming
pool. His facial expression followed by different shots can help the audience
in understanding how Alan is feeling and whether or not he is happy with the
way Sophie and his relationship is progressing or not.
New
French Wave
The New
French Wave was a blanket term for a group of French film makers in the 1950s
and 1960s, in other words it was an artistic movement in French cinemas by
young vibrant film makers that abandoned traditional techniques. The new
approach of the New French Wave meant that film makers could become more
creative and flexible when producing films.
Some of the filming
techniques within the new French Wave were natural lighting, the sharp contrast
between black and white, alternative framing and the release of the camera from
the tripod.
The YouTube link below leads to a pictoral video showing examples of some of the films released in the New French Wave period:
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