8 Essential Cuts Every Editor Should Know. If your goal is to master the art of editing, you’re going to need to know the essential cuts to use when editing a film or video. Let’s go through eight of these and look at some examples of each. For said examples, we’ll be using excerpts from various films — but keep in mind that you can use these same cuts in any editing session, be it narrative, documentary, commercial, industrial, or even animation. 1. The Standard. Top 10 Most Effective Editing Moments of All Time. The cutting Edge The Magic of Movie Editing (Full Documentary) How Hitchcock Used Editing to Turn 'Rear Window' into a Masterpiece of Visual Storytelling.
Editing is one of the most mysterious aspects of filmmaking.
Through skillful manipulations of still images, it's possible to create illusions of unity in time and space, and what's more, make these illusions elicit emotion from an audience, whether tears, laughs, or screams (and sometimes all three at once). Alfred Hitchcock was a master of editing (and everything else in the realm of cinema), and nowhere is his editing skill, as well as that of editor George Tomasini, more on display than in his classic, Rear Window.
Watch this video and see Hitch explain (in his inimitable and entertaining way) the key element of film editing that he turned into much more than a technical device in his 1954 classic. www.oscars.org/sites/default/files/complet_film_editing_activities_guide.pdf. Introduction to Film Editing.
High Fidelity - Ian. Education: Teaching with Film: Introduction to Editing. Grammar of Video Editing Tutorial: Jump Cuts. Visual Language2: Graphic Match. 2001 A Space Odyssey - match cut. The Graduate. The Graduate - Sound of Silence. The Long Take: Goodfellas. Delicatessen - Rhythm. Requiem Montage.