EDITING: TECHNIQUES & TRANSITIONS

Alternative Editing

Define alternative editing

Styles different to classic continuity editing.

These styles are often not concerned with making sure the viewer is seeing a believable space in
front of them

However they can still manipulate the audience as the viewers have suspended their belief

Can you define Montage in your own words?

A montage is a series of clips put together using different editing techniques to show that time is
passing every jump to a different clip.

Tutor Definition

Seemingly unconnected shots are spliced together to produce a often further, often symbolic,
meaning.

What is the purpose of New Wave Editing?

New wave is where the rules of continuity editing are deliberately broken to create ‘visible’
editing.
For each style copy the explanation or write down your own and find an example

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Style Definition Example

Superimposition Work like dissolves showing us

two images at once (often one

layer on top another). Again

similar to a dissolve they

suggest a connection between

the two images.

Split Screen Split screen has many uses, it

can be used alongside montage

to show two scenes happening

at the same time, it can allow us

to watch two events unfold, It

can show two different versions

of events or simply show

Temporal Speed up, slow down or doing

effects (slo- both for different effects.

mo/speed up)

Freeze Frames Freeze frames force the

audience to look at one

particular shot, can freeze

 action at critical times and are a

perfect partner of narration.

Limited/No No or limited cutting really

Cutting force the audience to watch a

scene. It can be uncomfortable

and is often used to make an

audience think about what

they’re seeing and feel

claustrophobic.

Visual Effects Visual effects when not made to

be seen as part of the film can

often be used to create a

certain style or highlight key

information to the audience.