AS1: Task 7 understanding continuity editing

continuity editing

Continuity editing was developed by European and American directors, D.W Griffith played a big part of this in his films such as The Birth of the nation. This uses techniques such as: the 180 degree rule, match on action, and shot, reverse shot. These techniques are used to make the film flow and make it as accurate as possible. 

Continuity editing is important because it creates a sense of chronological and creates the sense of realism in terms of time. You can still use flashbacks but you still need to show the progress of present time.

Techniques

Eye-line match: this technique links two shots together to make it look like someone is looking at something else when they are looking at something totally different. This allows the audience to to experience the same event as the character. 

Match-on-action: This technique is when a character start in one shot, they cut the camera to film from a different angle and we see the action scene finish in the second shot. this is used so action scenes seems one natural and makes it realistic. if this didn't get used action scenes will have load of cuts in the middle and the scene wouldn't flow and would seem fake.







shot, reverse shot:  the first shot shows one character and then the second character. this is used so the audience knows that the two characters are talking to each other. if this wasnt used it would be hard to show who is talking to each other.

180 degree rule: this rule makes sure two characters in the same scene with each other as the same left/right relationship to each other so it dont seem fake. if the camera makes a circle around the characters it will make everything look opposite so left is right and right is left and it wouldn't flow.

AS1: Task 6 montage

Montage

The style of montage we used to create this was a hollywood montage because we compressed a long day in school to a 44 second clip. We made the the montage about school life because we filmed it in school because we know what school life feels like and it we know the key parts to a everyday school life. We had no meaning behind our montage we thought it would be a good idea because everyone knows school seems long and is long so us cutting down a 6 hour day into 1 minute expresses what hollywood montage does. I think our montage was a success because we compressed a long period of time into short clips. i think it was a successful montage because it showed a whole day in a short period of time which is essentially what a hollywood style montage is.

AS1: Task 5 types of montage

Types of Montages

The term montage has different meanings when referred to in three different contexts:

1. French film,
2. Hollywood cinema,
3. Early Soviet film making.

Usually Hollywood films have a montage of someone getting better or training or you are progressing. The most famous montage is in Rocky, in every rocky film there is a training montage and it is the cliche of training clips and then motivational music, the famous eye of the tiger.

different styles of montage

Hollywood:  Hollywood montage is simply compressing lots of sequences together to make a long period seem short and quick. the most famous Hollywood montage is the Rocky training montages.

French: In French montage means assembly, french montage is simply editing. 

Early soviet: In soviet films montages were juxtaposing images. it was Used to reveal a hidden, deeper meaning etc.. the idea of this type of montage come from the soviet film maker, Lev Kuleshov.

Another soviet film maker called Sergei Eisenstein made a film called strike and he used a montage to show war and killing and slaughter. 

   Lev Kuleshav 

 Lev Kuleshav did a montage experiment around 1920. He took an old film clip of a head shot of a noted Russian actor and inter-cut the shot with different images. What this young director thought was the same facial expression could change the meaning of a image so he created this picture: