Thusday, August 21, 2014

Does the editing of your favourite tv show help tell the story?
5 page paper
editing can either add or distract from the story
wikipedia is not a source but it is a link to other sources
research paper is due tuesday, september 16
5 sources

Class Notes
Thursday, August 21

What is editing?
to entertain, inform, inspire, educate, etc.
editing began with the roots of film history

Where is all Began:

• Emulsion film and the one minute clip
• Lumiere Brothers (1890's) (people walking off train)
• Melies
• Edwin Porter (the great train robbery)- edits were cut using a splicing machine
• DW Griffith
• Eisenstein
• Kulechov (faces and emotions....face of woman, bowl of soup, same face, child, same face, dead body....creates emotion even though woman's face did not change)
• Alfred Hitchcock (man smile at woman and child, man smile at girl in bikini...kulechov affect)

four basic transitions in editing:
cut- an instantaneous move from one shot to another
dissolve- 2 images overlap
wipe- one image is pushed away by the other image
fade- from black to black*** ( cannot fade from camera to camera...that would be a dissolve (or cut))

("somebody got a toaster"...too many crazy transitions..distracts..phrase refers to one of the original editing programs)