EDITING - key terms revision

Media key terms editing from twbsmediaconnell


TIME
RYTHYM
TEMPORAL
SPACE

•Takes us to different locations

–Cuts to new place such as a hotel pool, to room, to kitchen

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•Changes pace (there can create tension)

–Go from slow to fast to show change in character’s feelings (fingersmiths)

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•Influence our opinions on characters depending on how much screen time they get (time allocation)  (like/dislike)

–Feel sorry for 2nd maid as she is not shown very much

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•Manipulate the time experienced by characters and audience (showing us different things at same time for example)

–Think of a scene to show a character is getting more fit over time  (montage editing & transitions/cuts of different locations will allow us to understand time)

–Ellipsis – cutting out time to understand something took place over a period of time

–Split screen or cross cutting (different places happening at same time)

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•Offer clues about the characters or plot development

–Having an eye line match of something a character can see might reveal more info

–Cutting between characters in a scene may reveal more about each character (linked with MES/CAM SAM)  - think of scene in freedom writers, there is sound bridging when he reads the diary but we actually so the eyeline matches of the teacher/other students to understand they feel sorry for him