Editing

The last film i produced mainly focused on the edit and cut, in relationship to the narrative. However because i concentrated too much on this, it ended up being over edited and the shots were way too short. Editing is another extremely important process of film production, and can mean the difference between a long and boring piece to an interesting, exciting production.

I have quickly looked into the theory of editing and the processes that some editors go through. I found an interesting article into the psychology and process of editing at this site:

http://pov.imv.au.dk/Issue_06/section_1/artc2A.html

It explains how, based on the cut of the film alongside the timing and continuity of the narrative, the audience tend to create the story in there own heads. This of course depends on the moments they are exposed to the visuals and sound - timing is the most important thing here. Walter Murch's theory is, that to stop the film disconnecting and showing in fragments, it is necessary to let the "spectator become the co narrator". This will allow continuity of film, as the audience is constantly perceiving and assuming the story line as it progresses. An experiment was created involving a stereoscope, which separated the view of each eye. In each view, there were two different women. On looking through the stereoscope, the brain will automatically piece together the two images to create one, and assume the form of what the two should look like. This woman that they imagined would be picked by them as the most beautiful of the three images.