Editing techniques

When editing a clip or movie, editing skills are essential because you are able to clean up the clip, E.g cut down the clip if it is to big and also add a story line to the clip easier for the viewers to understand. There are many types of editing tools to edit clips, for example:

Straight cut-is a basic cut, from shot A to B straight away. 

Continuity/invisible editing- continuity editing is where you edit a clip to make out as though it was never edited hence the term invisible editing.

Intellectual editing- editing with a intellectual and good usage of background research 

Montage- creating different clips to form 1. 

Cutaway- is a continues filmed action that has something else to over lap it.

180o rule- a shot that should have a same left and right relationship to make as if it was a natural shot.

Fade- fade in is a video transition used to fade one clip to another.

Wipe-wipe is a video transition the goes to the next scene with a wipe motion.

Sound bridge- sound bridge is where the scene begins with the carry-over sound from the previous scene before the new sound begins.  

Fast-cutting- editing technique which refers to several consecutive shots of a brief duration (e.g. 3 seconds or less).

Cross-cutting- its a technique most often used in films to establish action occurring at the same time in two different locations.

We were asked to create a given video and edit it following a script for guidance, we edited the spaghetti hero video. With the editing techniques we know and have learned, we used them to edit the film to be put together.