Editing from one image following to another can create meaning as we move from each shot, it creates a connection between the subject and what they are looking at.
Here are the catogories in which they based their theories on, these shots link in different ways and identify relationships between shots:
Spatial - Creating the space within the scene between people and objects.
- Continuity editing and establishing shot
- "Kuleshov Effect" There is no establishing shot but audience still know where it is set
- Cross cutting or parallel editing in different locations.
Temporal - The editing and time of each shot in the scene.
- Order of things can be changed by reverse shots
- The story/plot can change to interrupt normal order of time
- The events during the story can be altered through an eclipse
- Continuity editing - an event happening only tends to happen once.
Rhythmic - The rhythmic relations between one shot and another.
- Different shots and cuts have different effects on audience.
- All shots are the same length
- Shots can become shorter and shorter
- Shots with good length are steadier
- Longer or quick rapid shots
Graphic - Use of visual and moving images.
- Graphic Match - Shots link together by graphic similarities
- Graphic Dis-continuity - Playing around with colour, footage, mise en scene.
- Graphic Continuity: Centre of interest is constant through out cuts, maintaining lighting level, avoiding strong colour clashes.
The shots have different "Pictorial Qualities' which include patterns of light and dark, fine and shape, volume and depth, movement and stasis which can be used to create ‘smooth continuity’ or ‘abrupt contrast’
This is an example of graphic editing taken from the film "Psycho"directed by Alfred Hitchcock who was a fan of this type of editing. Looking at this sequance of shots we notice there is a conistancey of the circular shape using the shower head, plug hole and the victims eye.
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