Editing Styles and Conventions

There are very many different editing styles and conventions. Most of them can be used in different ways to play with peoples emotions and in this part I will talk about them.

The first style of editing is continuity editing, these are the two different type of continuity editing:

Diagetic sound is sound that doesn't isn't within the actually film, a good example of this is Background narration or music.

Matched on action: Matched on action is basically two different camera angles filming the same thing. For example if there was a shot of someone bouncing a ball, then the shot went to a different angle but it was still filming the person bouncing a ball then this would be matched on action.

Then you have Temporal Disconuity, these are the differnent parts of temporal disconuity:

A fade out is basically what I explained before in another form, it is an image fading from it's normal image straight to black.

A flashback is a relocation of time within a story, for example if the character in the movie is looking back on something that had happened in their past life the film would go to white then go to another scene where the outsides of the shot would look hazy as to show a flashback.

Soviet Montage is juxtaposing two shots together. French Montage simply means "Editing". In Hollywood montage is a short sequence of a film, usually emathising in fashion.

An establishing shot is a full shot of where the action in the scene is taking place. For example if there is a fight in a courtyard, then the next shot may be an overview of that courtyard.

Cross cutting is when a two diffenent scenes cut between each other. A good example of this is if a fight is going on in one place and another fight is going on in another location, the editor would cut between the different fights.

Some people also choose to ignore the rules and conventions which were stated above, this is called "Discontinuous editing".