Combining
shots and sequences
The editor’s
primary responsibility is to cut selected shots together in such a way that the
story told in the script and captured through image, sound and performance in
production is preserved.
This
achieved in all genres by establishing settings with wider shots, exploring
character dynamics with medium coverage and emphasising key detail – a fuse, a
grimace, a coordinate with closer coverage.
Broadly speaking, shots are combined into
sequences in two ways:
Continuity
editing aims to make cuts invisible in order to achieve seamless, fluid
rendering of the story through successive shots and sequences drawing any
attention to the editing itself;
Montage
editing makes the editing process more conspicuous by juxtaposing less clearly
related material, challenging viewers to make abstract connections between
shots and sequences.
The choice
of shots by the editor when combining shots and cuts is what helps to put
meaning within the scene.
Creating pace
An editor
can create pace in a scene by moving from:
Longer takes
to shorter takes;
Increase or
decrease pace
A few cuts
in a given stretch of film time to many cuts in a given stretch of film time.
An editor might increase the pace in a scene
to communicate:
Rising
action
Diminishing
time
Mounting
tension
Heightening
of stakes
The sequence
starts with longer takes which are used to engage the audience and make them interested
in the screen play which is taking place.
The takes
begin to get shorter in length when the editor has done this to increase the
action and the feel and the energy of the film and the editor does this by brining
it more towards real time to build the excitement.
Towards the
end of the scene a lot of cuts occur in a relatively short space of screen
time. The editor here uses a high number
of cuts to take you back and forth from the action if there shot-reverse-shot takes
to remind you that the action is occurring and there is conflict near the
action and we are close to the point of climax in the film.
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