Film Studies FM1 Micro Analysis - Editing Basics

1. FILM LANGUAGE
Editing

2. Editing
 Sequences the shots into something that
makes sense for the audience, in terms of
time and space.
 Most common editing technique in use today
is called ‘Continuity Editing’

3. Continuity Editing
 Makes sense of the spatial (space)
relationships
 Progresses events
 Shows reactions to previous actions
 Allows the film to shift through time
 Gives the film rhythm
 Calls the audience’s attention to significant
objects / characters / events in the narrative

4. Making Sense of Space
Continuity Editing

5. Spatial Relationships
 The Establishing Shot
 All edits should be motivated
 Action / Reaction
 Eye-Line Match
 180 degree rule
 Shot Reverse Shot
 Match on Action
 Diegetic Sound

6. The Establishing Shot

7. The Eyeline Match

8. 180 Degree Rule

9. Shot

10. Reverse Shot

11. Match on Action

12. Making Sense of Time
Continuity Editing

13. Time Relationships
 Fade In / Out
 Ellipsis
 Slow Motion
 Parallel Editing
 Flash Back

14. Parallel Editing

15. Silence of the Lambs
Fooling the Audience

17. Bullet Time (Slow Motion)

18. Cutting Speed

19. EDITING CHALLENGE.
Count the number of cuts in the following
sequence:

20. ‘PSYCHO’
In this sequence, note where and when the
editing changes pace and to what effect.

22. Style

23. Editing Styles
 Straight cut
 Fade out
 Dissolve
 Wipe
 Jump cut

24. Transition Style

25. The Star Wars Wipe

26. Spud’s Interview

27. ANOTHER STYLE OF
EDITING IS CALLED…

28. Used to show a passing of long periods of
time and progression of a character or
relationship.
Montage Editing

29. Montage Sequence

30. “...montage is an idea that arises from the
collision of independent shots“ Eisenstein
Soviet Montage

31. Battleship Potemkin (1925)
Eisenstein

32. GRAPHIC MATCH

33. Example 1

36. Example 2

39. Graphic Match

40. Editing Controls Text
Progression:
• Picture relationships
• Rhythmic relationships
• Time relationships
• Space Relationships