Story telling develops your imagination. It also develops your powers of description. Every film needs to be able to tell a story in order to interest the audience. It is essential as the attention of a viewer must be captured during the films running time. Story-telling goes hand in hand with editing if the edit is poor then telling the story becomes difficult.
3. Development of drama
Often in drama films it uses certain elements that backfires at the protagonist, like cancer, death, war, murder etc. The story is usually built around the overall element which contains various sub-elements; such as in 'The Family Stone' where the overall element is a couple going to a family Christmas and the sub-elements include things such as the family disliking their son's new girlfriend, a gay couple, mother has cancer (but this isn't realised until later on e.g. withholding information), lazy brother comes onto his brother's new girlfriend and sister.
4. Relationship to genre
Different genres of film have different conventions when it comes to editing, different techniques and styles are used to illustrate the genre.
Action
in an action film there is a lot of fast filming, this is to show the fast pace of the movie, in most action films there is a car chase or a fight scene, so fast editing is frequently used. Long shots are also used to establish the scene. An example of this is the car chasing scene in fast and furious 5.
Horror - Scream 4
In horror films fast editing is used, this is to scare viewers. The audience are anxious as they do not know what is coming next and are waiting to be scared by the next quick shot. Low shots are also used to create fear, it shows the characters intimidation and authority over the other characters. An good example of this is in 'Scream 4'
Romantic Comedy - The Ugly Truth
In a rom-com the editing makes the audience know its a romantic comedy, the sound is always upbeat and happy, the editing is always at a slow pace. An example of this is in 'The Ugly Truth'
5. Creating motivation
In order to create motivation you have to make the edit motivated this is done by making the continuity of the project looks smooth, checking that one shot to another doesn't jerk and that the position is in the same place for a perfect edit, or as close as can possibly get.
A conversation is a good example of creating motivation, instead of keeping one shot and seeing the back of the head of one of the people involved and boring the audience with one long shot, you can cut using the 180 degree rule to keep the shots cutting to the person speaking and keeping the audience interested.
6. Combining shots into sequences
Combining shots into sequences is the process of putting together all shots and making them flow. Once all of the shots have been individually edited they can they be place together in a sequence a successful edit mean the sequence will look good, the edit needs to look invisible and so the audience can only see one long sequence. An example of this is the final fight scene from the film Mr and Mrs Smith this is an example of different shots combined together to make a sequence.
7. Creating pace
Creating pace is used to give the tension of the movie or scene, there is no point in having slow shots and movement in a car chase scene in an action movie, this is not to say that action movies can't have a slow pace at all. For example in a romance scene where a male protagonist and a women are talking and starring at each other the shots and movements would be a slow pace.
Another way of creating pace is using music, a good example of this is Jaws, the camera movements and shots are good when the shark is about to attack and does, but the music creates the pace letting the audience know the shark is coming, how close its getting and, how fast it is and then the moment of attack, it builds a lot of tension having the audience on the edge of their seat. This is shown below.
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