Editing

Study Guide

If you have carefully read this chapter, you should be able to discuss the following topics and recognize them as we watch films…

Continuity

• Continuity defined
• Cutting to continuity
• Jump cut
• Establishing Shots

Classical Cutting

• DW Griffith
• Classical cutting defined
• Master shot
• Eyeline Match
• Matching action
• 180 degree rule
• parallel editing
• cross-cutting
• rhythm
• thematic montage

Soviet Montage/Formalism

• Beliefs of Kuleshov and Pudovkin…use of locale, physical images
• Eisenstein’s dialectical techniques…thematic connections, harsh editing

collisions instead of smooth transitions

Bazin and Realism

· Bazin’s philosophies

· Even classical cutting can subvert an event

· The director can do too much

· Effect of sound editing on film

· Rossellini: “Things are there; why manipulate them?”

· Effect of widescreen on editing