1. PGCE Art & Design
Moving Image Arts Module
Day 3 A.M. Session
Camera & Editing
Continuity Film-making
Robert Thompson
2. Who were the first film editors?
Video Study: Editing History
Note: Film history in MIA is about context (students
are tested on creative technique, not history)
3. Editing History
•Early film-makers pessimistic about future
•Edison’s assistant, Edwin Porter, experiments with cutting film
•DW Griffith establishes a grammar of film
•Initially a technical role, Editors now partner creatively with directors
4. The Hollywood Factory System
What is continuity style (classical Hollywood style) film-making?
What was classical hollywood?
Video Study: Classical Hollywood
5. What are the elements of Classical Hollywood or Continuity film-making
•Invisible storytelling: Camera and sound never draw attention to themselves
•Match-on-action
•Time is continuous (except for Flashback)
•OTS (Over-the-shoulder shots)
•Eyeline match
•Visual Storytelling
•Cross-cutting
•POV (point-of-view)
6. Short Video Studies:
Visual Storytelling (Rear Window)
Cross-cutting: 1 (Strangers on a Train)
Cross-cutting: 2 (Silence of the lambs)
POV (Silence of the lambs)
32. Video Study 1: Zooming and Handheld Camera
•Barry Lyndon – Zoom
•Handheld 1 – Blair witch hunt
•Golden Rule – Camera should be on a tripod unless there is a reason
for it not to be
•Editing – Great Expectations
33. Video Study 2: Goodfellas in production
Slomo
Freezeframe
Handheld camera
Some improvisation around script
Epic steadicam tracking shot (Entrance to nightclub)
Slow motion tracking shot (Jimmy Conway decides to murder)
Jump-cutting at wedding
Panning at wedding
Creating drug-induced confusion
34. Video Study 3: The Trombone Shot (dolly zoom)
•Zooming in from a distance will ‘flatten’ the field of view
•Zooming while tracking will keep the foreground subject a uniform size
while the background subject will appear to grow
35. Video Study 4:
Camera Framing
Camera Movement
Tracking
Crane Shot
Camera framing in The Third Man
Camera Movement in The Untouchables (Panning|Crane)
Tracking Shot (Klute)
Crane Shot/God Shot (Citizen Kane|Halloween|Raising Arizona|Highlander|
Origins)