Editing: The Illusion of Continuity

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Editing The Illusion of Continuity
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Edit To select and arrange processed segments of
motion-picture film.Continuity Editing Film
editing that maintains an uninterrupted time,
action and setting within each scene of a
narrative film.
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Classical Hollywood Style a complex collection
of formal and thematic elements that became basic
to Hollywood filming by the early teens
Elements of Classical Hollywood
StyleContinuity cutting (180-degree rule
shot/reverse shot over-the-shoulder cutting)
happy endings psychologically-motivated
characters villains getting punished women
becoming wives and mothers
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A fine example of the Classical Hollywood style
of editing can be found in the 1941 classic Meet
John Doe. In this sequence, a newspaper editor
waits for his star reporter
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Establishing Shot A shottypically at the
beginning of a scenethat establishes the whole
space (examples - Initial two-shot of characters
in dialogue image of entire room of people city
or landscape when where film takes place)
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• Two-shot a shot composed of two people
• Shot/Reverse Shot Any pair of shots in which the
  second shot reveals what is on the other side of
  the previous shot
• Takes shots made during the production of a
  film
• Eyeline Matches continuity editing dictates that
  if a character is looking in a certain direction
  in one shot, he/she should be looking in the same
  direction in the following shot

180-Degree Rule Over-the-Shoulder
Cutting (aspects of Classical Hollywood Style)
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How might you describe this shot?
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Establishing Shot
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Shot angle? Camera distance? Other film terms?
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High Angle Medium Close Up Symmetricalwhat
else?
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Which film terms could you bring to bear here?
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Over-the-Shoulder Cutting from Actors P.O.V.
(notice 180-Degree Rule)
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How could you describe this shot using film
terminology?
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Over-the-Shoulder Cutting from Actresss P.O.V.
(notice 180-Degree Rule)
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Another Over-the-Shoulder Shot from Actresss
P.O.V. (notice 180-Degree Rule) More intimacy
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Another Over-the-Shoulder Shot from Actors
P.O.V. (notice 180-Degree Rule) Maintaining
intimacy
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Return of the Establishing Shot - Equilibrium
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Long Shot Shot in which the subject is seen in
its entirety much of its surrounding are visible

• Cutaway Shot A shot that briefly interrupts the
  visual presentation of a subject to show
  something else

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Match CutJump CutFade-out fade-inLap
DissolveWipeSuperimpositionAction Reaction
ShotsParallel EditingFast Cutting Slow
CuttingMontage
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parallel editing or crosscutting (two stories
told simultaneously with inter-cutting)