MSTU1001 Lecture 4: Week 5 Lecture
MSTU1001 Week 5 Lecture – Editing
Shot Transitions:
• Time cut or transition
• Fade – the visual equivalent of writing dot, dot, dot …
• Dissolve – often cues a flashback or dream
• Wipe – can see the cut on the screen (Star Wars) – make a big jump in time and
spae, walk y or wipe y aera eig osured ad the replaig iage
(Rope and Jaws)
• Split Screen – two shots showing at once on difference sides of the screen, compresses
screen time
Spatial Conventions:
• Crossing the line – breaking the 180 rule
• The 180 axis of action – line between two points, the camera only speaks from one side of
the line, if changed looks odd and glitchy
• Break – must assume they have moves
• Jump cut: 30 Rule – suggest jump, glitch or skip by breaking 30 degree rule (juxtaposition of
two shops of the same subject must vary by more than 30 degrees in camera position),
joining 2 shots that are too similar seem an unmotivated error (The Royal Tenenbaums)
• Eyeline match – looking at something offscreen, then brought onscreen
• Shot-Reverse shot – what’s eig see ad the who see
• Graphic match – with colour and shapes
• Match on action – carries movement across the edit point and is continued in the next point,
such as walking through a door, never show a punch actually connecting)
Continuity Editing vs Montage:
• Continuity sutures the gap between 2 shots closes
• Montage – assembling shots
• Montage sequence – collage of images joined, usually by dissolved and music, compresses
time (La La Land ending, Marie Antoinette), use of repetition
• Soviet montage – works on principle of juxtaposition and dialectical synthesis, political
meaning, association (Baraka)
Time and Pace:
• Temporal extension or compression – time machine through shots, gap in time
• Pace & rhythm: edit to the rhythms or performance/ music
• Shot duration – quick
• Rhythmic editing – coincide with the sound beats, being able to predict when scene
changes, uses jump cuts
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