editing

Te general idea behind editing in narrative film is the coordination of one shot with another in order to create a coherent whole.
The system of editing employed in narrative film is called continuity editing its purpose is to create and provide good transitions.
Editing film is selecting and joining clips of a film together.
Editing is the process of preparing language images or sound through correction condensation and organization. Editing is therefore also a practice that includes creative skills human relations and a precise set of methods.
Juxtaposition: way that shots are put together to create meaning.
Edwin S. Porter, the great train robbery 1903.
The Kuleshov effect
Audiences interpreted emotional responses on the actors face based on the juxtaposition of images. Whilst much of the moving image we see uses this effect it does not usually draw attention to it. Students may be familiar with multiple camera non sequential techniques from film and television. Hollywood have up to 3000 shots for action movies.
Some cameramen still like to use one camera.
4 main things:
Production is the right length of time.
To remove unwanted materials or mistakes.
Need to alter sequence.
To establish the right style and character.

A graphic match: is achieved by joining to shots that have a similarity in terms of light/dark, line or shape, volume or depth, movement or stasis.
 A graphically discontinuous edit, is completely the opposite.

Rythmic realtions:
Film is not only a visual art but also an auditory and even tactile art. Diffrence of beats and tempo. Longer and shorter shorts.
Straight cut
Fade out
Fade in
Wipe
Dissolve
Flip frame
Jump cut

Temporal relations:
Editing is the process by which the difference between temporal duration and screen duration is reconciled. It sounds simple, but consider this: most future films present in roughly two hours sufficient intersection of story and plot to provide perceives with everything they need in order to understand days weeks months or even years in a characters lives.

Most common disruptions of a film are flashbacks or flash forwards which disrupts the chronological order.

Spatial relations: allowing the audience to understand the way the audiences are positioned. The 180 deegree rule, establashing shot, shot reverse shot, eyeline match.

Thematic relations: editiors have at their disposal two very powerful techniques for manipulating the perceivers place in the hierachy of knowledge and therefore affecting out thematic understanding of the film. e.g. montage sequences and crosscut editing.