Styles of editing

There are various styles of editing incorporated to create some form of effect being shown, especially in the thriller genre.

Montage Theory: Russian filmmaker and film theorist Lev Kuleshov, created a theory, that a film is similar to a house, the shots represent the bricks, so each shot was the brick for the house, so in the end, the once all the shots(bricks) were done, that would make the film(house). Montages especially were different images/films combined together.

Fade: The fade cuts as the image/video darkens and/or brightens, for most cases throughout the film, it is use to convey a passing of time, in which is a common thing to use.

Continuity Edit: This edit tries to make it into a chronological order, even if it is a flash back, it will still make sure that the time is moving forwards, and not any other way.

Graphic Match: A match-cut or raccord is an effect in which there are two separate items, in two different regions, where those two shots of those, graphically match.

Match-on action: The said character starts an action, such as a fight sequence, and then we see this segment to the end.

Wipe: This transition is basically when one segment of the film clip, gets shifted in any direction, this is the transition in which gets recognised quicker by the audience, the most common wipe in which is conveyed is when it is wiped to the right, because it links to the fact that time is being passed.

Eye line match: What this does is essentially move the camera from the character to what the character is seeing.

Jump cut: The reason why the transition is often use is because it grabs the audience's attention, it is quick and sudden, not slow and predictable, it essentially breaks the continuity editing, the reason why it feels like it is because it looks like something from that scene was removed from it.

Straight/Normal Cut: The last and most common cut is the straight cut, it the editing in which is the most common out of all of them, it is used to retain reality within the film, they are slow, however, these edits does not distract the audience, it does not obscure the audience's attention.

The reason as to why I have done a blog on this is because I have now gotten used to the camera work, and had practiced editing within our couple of films that we have created, and I wanted to learn more examples of the various types of editing and how are they used in films, especially within the thriller genre.