EDITING II
Cinema Survey - FIL 1000 - Fall ‘07
Points For Today…
Conventions of Editing
Continuity
Discontinuity
Parallel Editing
Continuity Editing
Seamless, real-life style. The audience should not be aware of the editing as an obvious process.
What happens on screen makes as much sense as possible to the audience.
Continuity Editing cont’d…
lighting remains consistent from shot to shot
time and space are continuous from shot to shot
rhythm varies according to the kinds of shots
screen direction remains consistent
Discontinuity Editing
Most common in avant-garde and experimental films, but also found in commercial works like Pulp Fiction (Quentin Tarentino), in which the plot is laid out in a discontinuous fashion for a particular effect.
Strives to be showy, NOT seamless
Discontinuity Editing cont’d…
Edits can sometimes be very abrupt
Encourages viewers to notice and consider cinematic technique
DOESN’T convey a plausible, continuous world – rearranges narrative to create new meanings
Parallel Editing
Scenes coinciding, indicating that things are happening at the same time.
Pioneered by D.W. Griffith in 1915 in the film "Birth of a Nation"
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Editing of a movie will change on how the plot and story are shown in a movie. This will change a scary/horror film into something a bit more comical. As seen in the mock preview of the Shinning in the example. For this reason it important for the editor to know and understand the story and plot that way he doesn’t interfere with the vision of the director. This way, flashbacks can be done during a movie or the movie could be perfectly chorological. However, the problem with doing movies like pulp fiction in perfect linear order the suspense of the movie is gone. As for Run Lola Run, the slow pace allows the viewer to really understand the character and to really appreciate what it is they are going through in the story.
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