FILM 1000 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Long Shot, Two Shot, Jerky

• School: Carleton University
• Department: Film Studies
• Course: FILM 1000
• Professor: Andre Loiselle

Document Summary

Film 1000 editing chapter 6, understanding movies. Editing is simply joining one strip of film (shot) with another. In the earliest years of cinema (late 1890s) movies were short, consisting of brief events photographed in long shot in a single take. The duration of the shot and events were equal. Later, filmmakers began to tell stories which required more than a single shot. Cutting to continuity = early style of editing that filmmakers devised in the early 20th century. Cutting to continuity = technique used in most fiction films, even today. This technique tries to preserve the fluidity of an event without literally showing all of it. Ex: showing a woman walking home from work could take 45 minutes, instead they cut it down to five shots along the way. The 45 mins of action may take 10 seconds of screen time, yet nothing essential is left out.