Editing
Why it is important:
Editing is one of the key aspects of textual analysis and one of the hardest and this is because Editing is meant to be unseen - hidden, we have been watching videos, films, tv shows which has editing most of our life this makes it hard to detect. This is key to making meaning and constructing representations.
The History:
The first film:
The first film involved one shot, editing was discovered by accident, they would experiment with editing to bring meaning in their films. Editing would involve cutting small strip of the filming strips used to record the movie. This allowed audiences to make up their own meaning, the meaning varies from person to person because each person has had a different past experience which means that they will interpret the situation differently. Later the editing techniques would be used for propaganda, this meant that they would associate different people with different things and chose the way the people would view a political party/situation.
The Kuleshov Experiment:
Later on came the Kuleshov Experiment, this was an experiment by Eisenstein and
Kuleshov were they tested different types of cutting up film. For their experiment they made a video of a man with the same expression on his face but added different images in between each scene of his face, there were three scenes: a bowl of soup were people said that he looked unhappy, a dead child were some people said he was sad and a woman were they said he looked happy.
This experiment proved how important context was because they used the same facial expression was the same but each person associated different meaning to the scenes each time based on their past experiences. This was another technique used by political filmmakers for propaganda.
How editing works:
Editing works in four ways, it creates relationships between the each shot allows the audience to understand what is happening, this also creates a pace in the movie this helps the audience understand the timeline of the movie, editing also creates spatial relationships and temporal relationships.
Montage:
This is one of the techniques that is used in editing. This is when a director uses shots of a character doing different things to show the passage of time, this is used for long periods of time like when a
character is in training.
Editing Techniques:
This is has created a language in film which creates the relationship in movies between time, space and action. There are techniques which are used by directors to go between scenes these are: cut, cross dissolve, wipe, fade to black/white and de-focus.
Editing can be used in reality tv to create the meaning the director wants, because there are many hours of footage they can select different footage to present a person in the way they want and this misleads the audience because they don’t know what else happens but only what they are watching.
An Example of this is season 6 episode 9 of The Simpsons were a news outlet edits Homer Simpson’s interview to make him seem like a bad person.
Editing
Why it is important:
Editing is one of the key aspects of textual analysis and one of the hardest and this is because Editing is meant to be unseen - hidden, we have been watching videos, films, tv shows which has editing most of our life this makes it hard to detect. This is key to making meaning and constructing representations.
The History:
The first film:
The first film involved one shot, editing was discovered by accident, they would experiment with editing to bring meaning in their films. Editing would involve cutting small strip of the filming strips used to record the movie. This allowed audiences to make up their own meaning, the meaning varies from person to person because each person has had a different past experience which means that they will interpret the situation differently. Later the editing techniques would be used for propaganda, this meant that they would associate different people with different things and chose the way the people would view a political party/situation.
The Kuleshov Experiment:
Later on came the Kuleshov Experiment, this was an experiment by Eisenstein and
Kuleshov were they tested different types of cutting up film. For their experiment they made a video of a man with the same expression on his face but added different images in between each scene of his face, there were three scenes: a bowl of soup were people said that he looked unhappy, a dead child were some people said he was sad and a woman were they said he looked happy.
This experiment proved how important context was because they used the same facial expression was the same but each person associated different meaning to the scenes each time based on their past experiences. This was another technique used by political filmmakers for propaganda.
How editing works:
Editing works in four ways, it creates relationships between the each shot allows the audience to understand what is happening, this also creates a pace in the movie this helps the audience understand the timeline of the movie, editing also creates spatial relationships and temporal relationships.
This is one of the techniques that is used in editing. This is when a director uses shots of a character doing different things to show the passage of time, this is used for long periods of time like when a
character is in training.
character is in training.
Editing Techniques:
This is has created a language in film which creates the relationship in movies between time, space and action. There are techniques which are used by directors to go between scenes these are: cut, cross dissolve, wipe, fade to black/white and de-focus.
Editing can be used in reality tv to create the meaning the director wants, because there are many hours of footage they can select different footage to present a person in the way they want and this misleads the audience because they don’t know what else happens but only what they are watching.
An Example of this is season 6 episode 9 of The Simpsons were a news outlet edits Homer Simpson’s interview to make him seem like a bad person.
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