Editing Techniques

Continuity –The viewer should not notice the cuts, and shots should flow together naturally. Hence, the sequence of shots should appear to be continuous. This is a chase scene from James Bond, Quantom of Solace. It uses continuity editing because although it is filming the same characters continuously, it includes cuts which the audience doesn't notice. These happen when the camera angle changes, but the fluency of the sequence makes it appear seamless. This is another James Bond film, with the scene from Casino Royale. It shows continuity editing. such as where they fall out of the window. It was filmed from two angles, with a cut in the middle. It looks like a continuous shot but was actually cut inbetween, but to us it just seems continuous. Hollywood Montage - a "montage sequence" is a short segment in a film in which narrative information is presented in a condensed fashion.Meet te Fockers- Montage. 3:16 - 5:38  This link is to the start of Meet the Fockers. There is a montage featuring Greg and Pam where they experience a series of good fortune over their day. It is accompanied by music which suits the positive tone of what we are viewing. This is another scene that features a montage, it is from Rocky 4. It shows Rocky training over a long period of time, accompanied by music, emphasising its importance. We also then get the impression it is building up to something, which it does at the end. Cross Cutting/parallel editing - Editing that alternates shots of two or more lines of action occurring in different places, usually simultaneously. object width="425" height="344"> This is a scene from James Bond, Quantom of Solace. The film is jumping between Bond chasing through the sewers and the horse racing taking place on the streets above. Because they are both fast and agressive, happening at the same time the horse chase is a metaphor for Bond racing. This is a clip from Silence of the Lambs, where parallel editing occurs. The film jumps constantly between, the man inside the house and the people on the outside. This is to create the affect that we are leading up to something where these two groups of people will meet. A Dissolve - A transition between two shots during which the first image gradually disappears while the second image gradually appears. The dissolve technique is used in the opening titles of James Bond, Die Another Day. It is constantly dissolving between the real footage of Bond being tortured and computer generated footage. The computer generated images are used to represent the real footage, but just in a different way. Giving the viewer a different persepctive on what they are seeing. This dissolve is from James Bond, Tomorrow Never Dies. It occurs when the plane lauches it's motors producing a flame from its exhaust, which is then molded into an explosion of shattering glass. The affect of this is to move from the opening scene to the opening titles.