Editing Techniques

Editing Techniques 

Continuity editing:

Continuity editing is a sequence of shots arranged in a specific order to suggest a progression of events. As there are various amounts of shots an editor can suggest different scenarios, using only two or three shots.

Accelerating Time:

Accelerating time is just long scene shorted. For example if its meant to take someone 90 minutes to drive from London to Brighton, it will only show a few seconds of certain clips, getting dressed (3 secs) getting in the car (2 secs) driving (3 secs) quick stop (1 sec) arriving at destination (3 secs) this is good because the audience will not be bored, instead they will be more entertained, as the 90 minutes of a drive has shorted to nearly 20 seconds of footage.

Expanding Time:

Expanding time is when two separate and different shots are eventually going to emerge together while creating suspense. for example if there is a car a fast car chase happening there will be fast, suspense music in the background, while the other shot will be the opposite of what is happening, which would be a child peacefully be playing with a ball in the park or in front of their house, this scene would be having calm and relaxed music. eventually the chase will get closer and closer to the kid. After that something tragic may occur, typically this is when the kids ball gets kicked or thrown into the middle of the road, where the fast car will appear. The editor creates suspense by constantly changing shots between those two scenes back and forth, this builds suspense because it will make the audience engage about what might happen next.

Cause, Effect and Motivation:

Cause, effect and motivation are all linked as the cause can lead to the effect which then leads to the motivation. For example, if a woman was murdered and she had killed someone before, in this case, the motivation would be revenge, which had a cause

Insert Shot

An insert shot is close-up of something that exists within a scene, they also add needed information to the audience. For example, if a drug deal goes down and the buyer overdoses on the drug, a close-up shot would reveal what drug they bought.

Cutaway:

Unlike insert shots that show additional information in a close-up shot, cutaways show additional information by cutting away from the main scene.

Relational Editing:

Relational editing refers to establishing a relationship between scenes. For example, if someone is calling someone 

Thematic Editing:

In thematic editing, also referred to as montage editing, images are edited together based only on a central theme. In contrast to most types of editing, thematic editing is not designed to tell a story by developing an idea in a logical 

Parallel Editing:

When segments are cut together to follow different story lines. For example, in "The Great Train Robbery (Film)", the creator constantly cut scenes to match different story lines.

Cross-cutting:

In a cross-cut the camera will cut away from one action to another action, which can suggest the simultaneity of these two actions.