What is editing? Editing is the process of selecting and preparing written, visual, audible, and film media used to convey information.

• What is Elliptical editing? Elliptical editing is a technique used in film editing that allows an event’s duration on-screen to be shorter than its duration in the story.

• Why are long shots used? A long shot is used to stress the environment or setting of a scene. This will communicate to the audience that the action takes place

• What is ‘non-diegetic sound’? Sound effects are added for the dramatic effect.

• How do we know she is bending down to pick up the ring? (what shots are used and why?)

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• Overhead establishing shot – what does this achieve? Designed to show the audience where the action is taking place. It is usually a very wide shot or extreme wide shot.

• What is Shot-Reverse-Shot – A film technique where one character is shown looking at another character (often off-screen), and then the other character is shown looking back at the first character.

• What is Eye-line matching? It is based on the premise that an audience will want to see what the character on-screen is seeing.

• Why do we cut to the other members of the group?

• What is a wipe? the transition where one shot replaces another by traveling from one side of the frame to another or with a special shape

• What is the effect of using quick cuts? Is used to quickly tell stories about minor characters to show how the causal actions of the protagonists have a profound impact on what happens to them

b) Now watch ‘Editing: The Invisible Art’ and take notes:

• How can editing build tension and pace? suddenly shift from slow, languidly-paced editing to quick
1. • What is crosscutting? Describe two or more scenes which are performed on stage at the same time

• What are the reaction shots? A portrayal of a person’s response to an event or to a statement made by another.

• What is seamless editing? Different components cut from a single shot, into a sequence so as to direct the viewer’s attention to a pre-existing consistency of story across both time and physical location.

• What is a jump cut? An abrupt transition from one scene to another.
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• What is a flashback and what does it achieve? To reveal some important truth about a character’s past that otherwise, the reader might not have known.