ENGL217 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Thelma Schoonmaker, Coen Brothers, Quentin Tarantino

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Editing: the process by which the editor selects, arranges, and assembles the visual images to tell a story. 1 minutes is used for every 20 minutes" shot. Decides what shots to use and how to use them. Puts her talents in the service of the director"s vision. Joel and ethan coen: roderick jaynes: spatial relationships between shots. Film editors responsibilities: any single shot limits our sense of space to the framing of that shot, our sense of space keeps getting expanded by the shots we see and how they are pieced together. Kuleshov effect: two shots need not have any relationship to each other to affect the viewer, third meaning . Continuity editing: continuity film editing is meant to be inconspicuous, what happens on the screen makes as much narrative sense. Editing techniques that maintain continuity: shot/reverse shot, match cuts (eye line, action, point of view editing, master shot, 180-degree rule. Transitions between shots are deliberately erratic and unsteady.

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