Editing

Editing

1. Continuity Editing - The basic purpose continuity editing is to ensure a smooth flow from shot to shot. Graphic qualities are usually kept continuous.

   • Spatial continuity - In the continuity style the space of a scene is constructed along the axis of action/180 degree line.

2. Temporal - Editing can control the time of action denoted in the film. Order of events, audience tends to expect chronological 1-2-3-4 order. However, events can be put into any order.

3. Key editing techniques

   • Fade out - gradually darkens the end of a shot to black.
   • Fade in - gradually lightens a shot from black.
   • Dissolve - briefly superimposes shot A and shot B.
   • Wipe - shot B replaces shot A through the use of a boundary line moving across the screen.

4. Graphic and Rhythmic editing

   • Shots can be viewed as purely graphic configurations - patterns of light and dark, line and shape, volume and depth, movement and stasis.
   • When the filmmaker controls the length of shots in relation to one another, it is controller the rhythmic potential editing.