ENGL 300 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Diegesis, Eyeline Match, Continuity Editing

• School: University of Arizona
• Department: English Main
• Course: ENGL 300
• Professor: Rodrigo

Document Summary

Scripts, storyboards, and previsualizations allow shots to be imagined in advance. Editing in filmmaking revers to the task of selecting and joining camera takes. Editing decisions can also build the film"s overall form. Editing lets the filmmaker decide what shots to include and how they will be arranged. An editor on the typical feature-length film is faced with a mountain of footage. Most fiction filmmakers plan for the editing phase during the preparation and shooting phases. Once the material is selected, the editor joins the shots, the end of one to the beginning of another. A cut provides an instantaneous change from one shot to another. A fade-out gradually darkens the end of a shot to black. A dissolve briefly superimposes the end of shot a and the beginning of shot b. In a wipe, shot b replaces shot a by means of a boundary line moving across the screen.