1. Editing
Selecting significant event details and putting them into a specific sequence to tell a story with clarity and impact.

2. Linear Editing
Copying sections of the source tapes to the edit master tape in the desired sequence.

3. You must access material consecutively.
Linear Editing
You must access material consecutively.

4. In Television production, VTRs are used
Linear Editing
In Television production, VTRs are used

5. Cannot access material randomly
Linear Editing
Cannot access material randomly

6. NON-LINEAR EDITING
File Management

7. NON-LINEAR EDITING
Randomly access files

8. Done entirely by computer.
NON-LINEAR EDITING
Done entirely by
computer.

9. Can display various camera shots side by side.
NON-LINEAR EDITING
Can display various camera shots side by side.

10. Editing can be used to combine, condense, correct, and build.
EDITING FUNCTIONS
Editing can be used to combine, condense, correct, and build.

11. COMBINE Simplest kind of editing Combine various tape segments
Generally in chronological order

12. EXAMPLE
Vacation Video

13. Reduce overall length Concentrate on what you need to show and say.
CONDENSE
Reduce overall length
Concentrate on what you need to show and say.

14. EXAMPLE
News Story

15. Editing to fix production mistakes Most difficult
CORRECT
Editing to fix production mistakes
Most difficult

16. Talent mispronounces a word
EXAMPLE
Talent mispronounces
a word

17. Most satisfying Build a show from many carefully planned shots

18. EXAMPLE
Commercial

19. CONTINUITY EDITING
Creates seamless transitions from one event detail to the next so that the story seems to flow.
Dominant style of editing in The U.S.

20. Spatial Continuity
Preserves the location and motion of objects over a series of shots to help viewer establish & maintain where things should be & where they should move.

21. Establishing Shot
Usually a wide shot that shows all of the important elements of a scene. Often referred to as the master shot, it can be cut to during the scene to reestablish spatial relations.

22. 180 degree rule
This rule states that the camera should always be placed on one side of an imaginary line that connects the subjects in a scene. Violating this rule can disorient the viewer.
Example: a basketball game

23. Temporal Continuity
Concerned with maintaining continuity of an action over time.
Can be used to condense or extend time.

24. Jump Cut Objects or characters seem to jump in time and space.
Occurs when two shots are too similar in composition.

25. Matching Action
A series of shots cut together to create the illusion of seamless movement.
The character must repeat the same motion for each shot.

26. Montage Editing
Concerned with creating a relationship between seemingly unrelated shots by cutting between them.
Juxtaposition: the act or an instance of placing two or more things side by side.
Example: Battleship Potemkin

27. Montage Editing
In the United States, montage editing is usually used to condense the passage of time.
Example: Rocky training scene.