VIDEO EDITINGSCULPTING WITH SOUNDS, IMAGES AND WORDS

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CONTINUITY EDITING: cutting style that maintains a sense of continuous space and time

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6uahjH2cspk&index=22&list=PLrMEncyd64BdPt-iWyxiAdo19tYm7myf1

~ 13 min

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importance of the establishing shot

editing’s ability to compress time in favor of impact over reality

varying the distance between long, medium and close-up shots

varying duration

pacing through panning and zooming shots

https://vimeo.com/blog/category/video-school

TYPES OF VIDEO SHOTS Extreme Long Shot

Long Shot Medium Long Shot

Medium Shot Medium Close-up

Close-up Extreme Close-up

from https://www.asu.edu/alti/ltlab/tutorials/video/basics/types.htm

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Extreme Long Shot (ELS / EWS)

• Also known as extreme wide shot (EWS). • Covers a wide area. • Shows the whole figure of your subject

as well as his surroundings. • Provides context for your scene.

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Long Shot (LS / FS)

• Also known as full shot (FS). • Frames the whole figure of your subject,

from the head to the toes. • Places the subject in relation to the

environment and the people around it. • The point of the focus is the subject but

the environment is also visible. • Shows action rather than emotion.

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Medium Long Shot (MLS)

• Also known as a three-quarters shot. • Frames the whole subject from the

knees up. • An intermediate shot between the long

shot and the medium shot. • Shows the subject in relation to the

surroundings. • May be used when you have 2 or 3

persons in the frame.

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Medium Shot (MS)

• Also known as the waist shot. • Frames the subject from the waist up. • Commonly used in interviews. • Directs the viewer to the subject.

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Medium Close-up (MCU)

• Frames a subject's head and cuts off around mid-chest.

• The focus is on the subject. • Reveals only a little of the surroundings. • Shows the facial expressions of the

subject. • Commonly used for interviews in

documentaries and news programs.

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Close-up (CU)

• Frames a subject's face and cuts off mid-neck, showing the face and entire head.

• The subject fills almost the entire frame. • Captures facial expressions and

emotions.

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Extreme Close-up (ECU)

• Frames just the person's facial features. • Frames only a portion of the subject. • Shows the person's emotions.

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CONTINUITY EDITING: cutting style that maintains a sense of continuous space and time

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6uahjH2cspk&index=22&list=PLrMEncyd64BdPt-iWyxiAdo19tYm7myf1

MONTAGE: cutting style that ignores continuous space and time for the benefit of conceptual logic and richness

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JYedfenQ_Mw&list=PLrMEncyd64BdPt-iWyxiAdo19tYm7myf1&index=21

BY WALTER MURCH

IN THE BLINK OF AN EYE: A PERSPECTIVE ON FILM EDITING

THE RULE OF SIX

1. Emotion (51%) – It is true to the emotion of the moment.

2. Story (22%) – It advances the story.

3. Rhythm (10%) – It occurs at a moment that is rhythmically interesting and ‘right’.

4. Eye-trace (7%) – It acknowledges what you might call ‘eye-trace’ — the concern with the location and movement of the audience’s focus of interest at any one moment.

5. Two-dimensional plane of screen (6%) – It respects ‘planarity’ - the grammar of three dimensions transposed by photography to two (the questions of stage-line)

6. Three-dimensional space of action (4%) – It respects the three-dimensional continuity of the actual space (where people are in the room and in relation to one another).

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8 Essential Cuts

http://www.premiumbeat.com/blog/8-essential-cuts-every-editor-should-know/

J-Cuts & L-Cuts

https://vimeo.com/blog/post/j-cuts-l-cuts

Cuts and Transitions 101

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OAH0MoAv2CI

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Cutting on Action

Cut Away

Cross Cut

Jump Cut

Match Cut

Fade In / Fade out

Dissolve

Smash Cut

Iris

Wipe

Invisible Cut

L-cut and J-cut

LEONARDO DALESSANDRIWatchtower of Turkey (2015) 4 min

(cutting on action, on sound, in rhythm…)

https://vimeo.com/108018156

MATTY BROWNA Colorful Life (2015) 6 min

https://vimeo.com/132704505

CHRIS MARKERCat Listening to Music (1990) 3 min

An Owl is an Owl is an Owl (1990) 3 min

La jetée (1962) excerpthttps://vimeo.com/46620661

FORCED ENTERTAINMENT Complete Works: Table Top Shakespeare (2015)

excerpt ~2 min and trailer

JÉRÔME BELPichet Klunchun and Myself (2005) excerpt ~2 min

Disabled Theater[3] with the actors of Theater HORA (2012) excerpt ~4 min