Editing Styles and Convention

Montage is the french term for 'putting together'



From Wikipedia
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Hollywood Montage - Montage is a technique in film editing in which a series of short shots are edited into a sequence to condense space, time, and information. It is usually used to suggest the passage of time.

Soviet Montage - Soviet montage theory is an approach to understanding and creating cinema that relies heavily upon editing (montage is French for "putting together"). Although Soviet filmmakers in the 1920s disagreed about how exactly to view montage, Sergei Eisenstein marked a note of accord in "A Dialectic Approach to Film Form" when he noted that montage is "the nerve of cinema", and that "to determine the nature of montage is to solve the specific problem of cinema".

The purpose on continuity editing is to make the editing in a scene seem smooth and seemless so the editingn isn't obvious.

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The history and developments of post-production.

Over a long period of time there have been many developments in post-production.

Edwin S. Porter's film The Life of an American Fireman (1903) was the first film to use post-production allowing it to bring the shot of the burning building together with the shot of the fire brigade together making a story. Today this is a very basic editing technique but then it was a very important new style helping cinematography develop.

The Life of an American Fireman

In 1924 Iwan Serrurier introduced the moviola machine making the film industry even more advanced. It was used by editors to view the film whist editing to prduce better cuts. it would be able to edit 35mm film stock. Some people described it as "a green sewing machine with legs", which is one of the reasons why women would be the people editing films.

The Moviola Machine

In the 1970's the flatbed editor was intorduced allowing the editors to 'cut and splice' the footage a lot quicker, otherwise known as linear editing. But due to technology advancing even more in the 1990's the flatbed editor was replaced by computers using non-linear software like Final Cut and Avid

A Flatbed Editor