4.6
Research and write a 1000 word essay on the history principles and development
of editing.
The history of the film has had many
changes up until today, which means that editing styles have changed. Film
started with no editing at all.
The history principles and development has way improved because
principles were used to make the audience emotional think about the film. The
purpose of editing is to improve the bad things from the footages and editing
more things into the action story. Editing can really help impact the mood of
the story to the audience also video footages can entertain and interest the
audience to grab the views attention by putting clips together and turn them
into story.
These are the films that are edited in the
past and putting more focus into it e.g.
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Psycho (1960)
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The Birds (1963)
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Bonnie & Clyde (1967)
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The French connection (1971)
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Rocky (1976)
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Star Wars (1977)
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Raiders Of The Lost Ark (1981)
Editing has developed over time the history
of the films has had changes up until today Editing now can slow time, speed up
time, scare us, makes us laugh also there’s sad moments. Cutting has improved
in the past because in the past cutting weren’t used as much in the past at
all. Editing has much developed in time because also now can speed up e.g. fast
and furious were everything move slowly and some parts of the film which the
race goes fast and all the focus goes on the narrative on the subject that is
‘close up’ to focus on they emotional and feelings. Movies become more business
in 1930. Editing also went on to add colors to films because in the past it was
black and white films.
The first film editor was D.W Griffiths he
was the first person to think of different camera shots angles. He used
different specific techniques. D.W Griffiths trailer of the film birth of
nation shows the different shots he used. He also invented the use of various
shots including close up, when these were first brought into films people did
not understand the use of these shots as they had came to the cinema to watch
full people and open shots so they were not happy that they had paid just to
see someone face.
The filmmakers started to realize that the
use of different shots could make the audience react in certain ways, by using
flash back to show previous happening, which would keep the audience to think
about it and have insight into the film.
“The film L'Arrivée d'un train à la Ciotat by the Lumière brothers was
one of the first films, which as you can see was shot in one angle. When the
film first came out people who went to view it who had no experience of film
and knew nothing about it were scared as they thought the train was actually
coming towards them.” This can be very scary and funny because it scared the
audience the shot took one place, which can be boring to watch.
“Film has been around
since the early 1800’s, in the first films that were made there was no editing
involved at all and were normally just shot from one angle and would be around
a minute long. If we looked back into the first films that were made we would
find them very simple. The first type of editing I have came across was
essentially in camera editing where the operator would stop the camera for a
brief moment so that they could move to a different shot or to move something
into the shot, This type of interruption wouldn’t leave a mark or cause any
damage to the nitrate film stock, this process was called resumption.” So many
different shots angles used by now e.g. wide shot, 2 shot which shows 2
characters, single shots, long shots
Long shot this type of shot shows the entire location where the action
took place is happening and what is the person doing. It’s often used at the
start of the scene. Fade one shot slowly replaces the other, so that both are
temporarily presenting in the screen it normally create softer cut usually it
shows the relationship between the two characters in two images e.g. one character
is thinking about the other
Eye line match are used too the eye line between two characters matches
e.g. they are staring at each other you can see by the eye line matching, close
up shot on a character which shows there emotion and enables the audience to
feel more intimate with the character therefore more involved the story.
From my primary research I found out that in the old superman in the
1978 the cameras weren’t smooth enough than now e.g. man of steel from 2013 HD
has been used jump cut in some clips and the music sound old also the editing
was way improved if we compare them both together to 1978. The different are
sound, effects, cuts, music also the man of steel 2013 looks more realistic
than 1978. The man of steel they used different shots flash back to help the
audience to flash back with the story.
From my qualitative research we made question to ask what other people
think and give us some ideas and the result was that more people think remade
movies in the future will be better than now because the improvement that are
used will help the technology in the future.
18/09/14
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