ENGL 277 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Long Shot, Continuity Editing, Bruce Power

• School: McGill University
• Department: English
• Course: ENGL 277
• Professor: Derek Nystrom

Document Summary

Con4nuity edi4ng, classical hollywood style, and his girl friday. Controls pacing of the film: dimensions of film editing. Graphic relations between shot a and shot b. Repeat story actions: classical hollywood style. Narrative and visual style of film making between 1917-1960 dominant mode of film making in us: continuity editing - Parts of the system: his girl friday. Dimensions of film editing: graphic relations between shot a and shot b. Light and dark, line and shape, volumes and depths, moment and stasis. Matching or clashing , aesthetic effect: rhythmic relations. Length of individual shot in relations to each other. Controls the amount of time: spatial relations. Establish and manipulates our perception of space. Action space 3d, within the viewers persecution of events. Bt: entirely implied, two people in different countries and editing to seem like they are together: temporal relations. Editing shapes the order of the presentation of events.