University:
East Georgia State College
Course:
FILM 1100 | Introduction to Film
Academic year:

2021
Views:

12

Pages:

4
Author:

Prince Sampson

CHAPTER FIVE Editing: Relating Images Key Objectives • • • • • • Understand the artistic and technological evolution of editing. Examine the ways editing constructs different spatial and temporal relationships among images. Detail the dominant style of continuity editing. Identify the ways in which graphic or rhythmic patterns are created by editing. Discuss the ways editing organizes images as meaningful scenes and sequences. Summarize how editing strategies engage filmic traditions of continuity or disjuncture. A Short History of Film Editing (1 of 5) • 1895‒1918: Early Cinema and the Emergence of Editing – Edwin S. Porter, employee of Thomas Edison, used basic editing techniques in the service of storytelling in early films such as Life of an American Fireman (1903) and The Great Train Robbery (1903). – D. W. Griffith became closely associated with the use of crosscutting or parallel editing (the alternating between two or more strands of action) with his work in The Lonely Villa (1909) and The Birth of a Nation (1915). A Short History of Film Editing (2 of 5) • 1919‒1929: Soviet Montage – Sergei Eisenstein’s iconic works center on the concept of montage, editing that maximizes the effect of juxtaposed disparate shots. Along with Lev Kuleshov, Vsevolod Pudovkin, and Dziga Vertov, Eisenstein advanced montage to a key component modernist, political filmmaking in the 1920s Soviet Union. – Importance and prominence of women in editing