Editing concepts

EDITING

"Editing establishes the structure and content of the production, along with the productions overall mood, intensity and tempo."

Editing concepts-

• 180 Degree rule-  

the 180-degree rule is a basic guideline regarding the onscreen spatial relationship between a character and another character or object within a scene. An imaginary line called the axis connects the characters and by keeping the camera on one side of this axis for every shot in the scene. Crossing the 180 degrees angle can cause confusion as the directions established for the viewer is changed.

•  Eyeline matching-

this term is used to point to the object that the onscreen character is focused on. The match is based on the idea that when the onscreen character looks into the distance/offscreen, the audience want to see where he or she are looking towards. This would usually result in a cut away shot to what is being looked at. This idea is also applied to character conversations. When one character looks offscreen at the other, a cut would normally appear showing the second character in an exchanged between him/herself and the first character.

• Match on action-

 this is a film editing technique where the editor cuts from one shot to another view that matches the first action shot. Cutting on action gives the impression of continuity when watching an edited film. By having one shot follow by another, the editor creates a visual bridge distracting the audience enough so they do not notice the scene is in fact separate shots. This is generally the most popular editing technique.

• Shot reverse shot

this concept naturally goes hand in hand with the 180 degree rule, a shot being swapped by another alone the 180 degree axis. This is 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.Shot reverse shot is a feature of the 'classical' Hollywood style of continuity editing along an eyeline match.