Editing

Continuity Editing:

A way of editing which is used to make a, consistant, clear action which is done by using a set of of rules. Doing this makes the shots flow into eachother and gives the narrative a structure, which makes the film easier to watch. The rules of continuity editing are:

• Establishing Shot: An establishing shot is usualy a long or extreme long shot which shows the space between important characters, objects and the setting of a scene.
• Shot/reverse shot: This is were two shots, which alternate between two characters, are edited together. Usualy both characters in the two shots are in a conversation. In one shot the characters will be looking left and the following shot they will be looking right.
• 180 ° rule: The angle of two shots together should not go beyond 180 ° . This is to make sure that the audience has a scense of where everything is in the scene. to do this you can't cross the line of vision between the characters, if this happens then the viwer won't understand what is going on.
• 30 ° rule: The angle between two consectutive shots shouldn't be less than 30 ° . This is to give a spatial relatioship between people and objects in the scene.
• Crosscutting: Where you alternae between two shots which occure simultaneosly in two or more different locations.
• Match on Action: Cutting between two shots, which show different angles of the same action next to each other. This shows emphisis on that action.
•  Eyeline Match: A cut between two shots, where in the first shot shows somebody looking in a certain direction. The second shot shows either what the person in the first shot sees, or a person looking back at them in the oposite direction.
• Re-establishing Shot: A shot that goes back to a view of a space or location after a series of close-ups.

  
180 ° Rule:

Discontinuity Editing:  
It is also called montage editing, this is the complete oposite of continuity editing. the aim of discontinuity editing is to make the sequence nnot make sense, unlike continuity editing where the aim is to make the sequence flow and make sense. Discontinuity scenes can out weeks or even months in a few seconds of film. the edit will show different places at different times to show changes in time.

Insert Shot:
This is a shot that focuses, usually in a close-up, on something specific in the scene.

Cutaway:
This is a shot that cuts away from the main action in the scene for a short period of time. The cutawat shot usually takes place at the same time as the main action, it just shows the audience other aspects of the plot.

Sound Design:
The different types of sounds used when editing te final film. For instance dialoge, sound effects and the foley sound.