1. History and
Development of
editing
By Aliyah, Elle, Khalid and Mathilda

2. The purpose of editing
Film editing is part of the creative post production
process of filmmaking . Film editing is used to polish
off film and make the clips flow together.

3. The very first film makers
Nowadays we have modern technology
which allow us to do simple editing,
where as years ago the director had
to make sure that they could film
many clips from one scene. This was
because the camera and its
equipment was extremely heavy and
their was quiet a long process of
putting the camera together on its
stand and start films with heavy rolls
of tape.
Because of the lack of technology in
earlier years, to edit clips they would
have had to cut out sections from the
tape and place it on a new strip
where they wanted the sequence to
form.

4. The first individuals to
experiment with editing.
David LlewelynWark Griffith was a premier pioneering American film director. He is best known as the
director of the epic 1915 film The Birth of a Nation. Griffith used camera and narrative
techniques
Eisenstinewas the first editor to use montage, he is famous for using it in ‘The Odessa Steps sequence’
This was a stylish way to make the audience feel like they was part of the action, this disorientates us
and makes us feel confused because the cutting and editing was so fast, for example he used
parallel editing and jump cutting.
Battle ship clip: https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=DLEE2UL_N7Q

5. The Kuleshov Effect is a montage effect
demonstrated by Russian filmmaker Lev
Kuleshov in the 1910s and 1920s. He
edited together a short film in which a
shot of the expressionless face ofIvan
Mosjoukine was alternated with various
other shots. The film was shown to an
audience who believed that the
expression on Mosjoukine's face was
different each time he appeared,
depending
The man with the movie camera clip:
https://vimeo.com/8082147

6. The different types of editing
techniques and principles used today
Starting this off, I would like to explain that the camera’s used in the
olden days were big and heavy, therefore they used a lot of long
shots mid shots because as I have said cameras were heavy and
they did not really move the camera around. Nowadays we
have digital camera were these type of new technology
includes zooming in and out and that they are not heavy,
therefore can be moved about. As camera are not heavy and
can be moved about, different type of editing techniques were
introduced, such as shot reversed shot.

7. Other type of editing is called parallel editing, this is
a film technique of continuity editing that
establishes the relationship between two subject
by cutting from one to the other. One of the
most important effects of the parallel edit is that
of simultaneousness, suggesting that two events
occur at the same time.

8. Montage
Montage is a technique used in film
editing in which a series of short shots
are edited into a sequence that doesn’t
need to flow but it condense space,
time, and information. The shots or
scenes are seemingly and unrelated
and when combined they achieve
meaning or seem quite similar. This
techniques was famously used in a
silent documentary film made in 1929
called ‘Man with a movie camera’
This is a loads of different shots of the
film, this is the closes example I could
show to a montage in the film

9. Jump cut
Jump cut is one transition from one to
clip to another, it’s a cut used in film
editing in which two shots of the
same subject are taken from
camera positions that vary slightly.
This type of edit makes the shots
appear to "jump" position in a
discontinuous way. Using a jump cut
shot should provide continuity and
have seamless flow.

10. The development of digital editing technology and
technique
In the early days of electronic video production, linear
editing was the only way to edit videotapes. Linear
editing is cutting pieces of the film and placing them
where you want the edits to be cut and placed into
the places they are required. If they editing went
wrong, you would have to start all over again and
redo what you have done wrong.
Hard wear and soft wear are two different things,
ccomputer hardware is any physical device,
something that you are able to touch and software is
a collection of instructions and code installed into the
computer and cannot be touched.