Editing Styles/ Transitions

The style of editing means how scenes are attached together. This is done through transitions. Transition means the moving from one shot to another. There are copious types of transitions, which are used to carry different meanings. Below are some editing transitions. Editors mostly use.

Straight cut:

A basic cut; Shot A abruptly ends and Shot B abruptly begins

Jump cut:

 A jump cut occurs when a cut, designed to act merely as a camera angle reveals a continuity error between the two shots. For instance, if a character has their hand over their mouth in a medium shot, and not in their close-up, this little detail, which probably was not noticed on set, is now painfully obvious to the viewers.

Fade in/out

Fade ins generally occur at the beginning of a film or act, while fade outs are typically found at the end of a film or act.

Cut

The most basic type of shot transition, the cut is the most common way to join two shots.

Wipe

A wipe is when the scene is shoved off the screen by another shot. For example in star wars episode 4 the wipes are used exquisitely.

In my thriller openings I’ll most likely be using these editing transitions, mostly the basic cuts. 

Editing Style Continuity

Continuity 

For part of our coursework we have to make a preliminary film, showing continuity in our film. therefore in class we have looked at clips of films where they use continuity editing to look like they filmed everything in a day. the term continuity means, when a moving image is continuos and there's no mistakes and everything looks as if it's filmed in a day. This is done in movies to show the sense of realism can be portrayed. Therefore everything in the scene stays the exact same for the period time of filming. this ranges from camera angles and positions of objects, costumes, props and hair. for example in one shot the characters clothes brown then in another shot it's green it'll look weird and will show no sense of realism in the scene. there are multiple techniques and rules to follow, for the art of continuity to make realism in the scene they are:

Eye line match

A eyeline match is when we see a character looking at something off screen and then it cuts to a shot of what they are looking at

Match on action

A match on action shot is when we see a character start an action in one shot and then see them continue the action it in the next scene.

Graphic match

A graphic match is when two shots are linked with a smilier shape or composition of an image.

Shot reverse shot

A shot reverse shot is when two people are tending to have an argument or conversation and the camera has a shot of one character talking and then the other character talking, for example in Psycho when Norman Bates has a conversation with Marion Carine,  a shot reverse shot is used to show that they're having a conversation.

180 Degree rule

The 180 degree rule is a basic guideline that states that two characters in the same scene should always have the same left/right relationship to each other. If the camera passes over the imaginary axis connecting the two subjects, it is called crossing the line. for example in the hunger games @34 Minutes they deliberately break the 180 degree rule. Because you can notice how the camera has moved from left to right.