Editing Revision

Editing is a way of compressing time and space or creating the effect of a dream sequence or flashback; it usually is ‘seamless’ and natural-seeming such that we tend not to even notice it. 

• Editing is the cutting and joining of lengths of film to place separate shots together yet still manage to suggest a sense of a continuing, connected and realistic flow of events and narrative 
• A montage is an edited series of shots that works as an ‘individual unit’ of meaning greater than the individual mise-en-scenes from which it is created. 
• Continuity editing refers to editing techniques that keep the sense of narrative flow such as matched or eye-line cuts. 
  
• A jump-cut is a dramatic edit that breaks time / space continuity yet still appears 
  
• continuous and ‘natural’; an MTV edit is a rapid sequence of fast jump cuts that creates a conscious effect such as in music videos; a cross-cut follows action in two separate scenes; a follow-cut follow action to its consequence, e.g. a character looking out cuts to what they look at. 
• Fades (sometimes to black) and dissolves create the sense of scenes moving forward. A sound-bridge carries sound across shots. 
• Parallel action allows two scenes to be viewed yet still retain the continuity and realism and uses cross cuts. 
• A sequence is a series of shots (i.e. a montage) that leads up to a climax as in a story sequence.