Editing: The Illusion of Continuity

1. Editing: The Illusion of Continuity

2. Edit: To select and arrange processed segments of motion-picture film.Continuity Editing: Film editing that maintains an uninterrupted time, action and setting within each scene of a narrative film.

3. Classical Hollywood Style: a complex collection of formal and thematic elements that became basic to Hollywood filming by the early teensElements of Classical Hollywood Style:Continuity cutting (180-degree rule; shot/reverse shot; over-the-shoulder cutting); happy endings; psychologically-motivated characters; villains getting punished; women becoming wives and mothers

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7. A fine example of theClassical Hollywood styleof editing can be found in the 1941 classic Meet John Doe. In this sequence, a newspaper editor waits for his star reporter…

8. Establishing Shot: A shot—typically at the beginning of a scene—that establishes the whole space (examples - Initial two-shot of characters in dialogue; image of entire room of people; city or landscape when where film takes place)

9. Two-shot: a shot composed of two people Shot/Reverse Shot: Any pair of shots in which the second shot reveals what is on the other side of the previous shot Takes: shots made during the production of a film Eyeline Matches: continuity editing dictates that if a character is looking in a certain direction in one shot, he/she should be looking in the same direction in the following shot 180-Degree Rule Over-the-Shoulder Cutting (aspects of Classical Hollywood Style)

11. How might you describe this shot?

12. Establishing Shot

13. Shot angle? Camera distance? Other film terms?

14. High Angle – Medium Close Up – Symmetrical…what else?

15. Which film terms could you bring to bear here?

16. Over-the-Shoulder Cutting from Actor’s P.O.V. (notice 180-Degree Rule)

17. How could you describe this shot using film terminology?

18. Over-the-Shoulder Cutting from Actress’s P.O.V. (notice 180-Degree Rule)

19. Another Over-the-Shoulder Shot from Actress’s P.O.V. (notice 180-Degree Rule) – More intimacy

20. Another Over-the-Shoulder Shot from Actor’s P.O.V. (notice 180-Degree Rule) – Maintaining intimacy

21. Return of the Establishing Shot - Equilibrium

22. Long Shot: Shot in which the subject is seen in its entirety; much of its surrounding are visible Cutaway Shot: A shot that briefly interrupts the visual presentation of a subject to show something else

23. Match CutJump CutFade-out; fade-inLap DissolveWipeSuperimpositionAction & Reaction ShotsParallel EditingFast Cutting & Slow CuttingMontage

24. parallel editing or crosscutting (two stories told simultaneously with inter-cutting)