Editing

Once filming has taken place, the next step is to edit them together. Editing is where we put together a sequence of shots we have already taken to flow and make sense, maybe a story. This decides how the video that your making will look. There are two main ways to analyse and look at editing.

• Speed
• Style

Speed

The speed is how quickly the video changes from one shot to another. This varies for certain types of scenes, for example; action shots will have loads of camera shots but every shot will be edited short and fast.

Style

The style is the way two shots are edited together, there are many effects and ways you can edit two together. Here are a few examples:

Straight cut- this is the most commonly used one, this is where one shot is cut and directly afterwards the other is placed, with no space in between.

Fade in/out – this usually fades to a black screen, this could be used at the end of a scene/movie, or a cut between shots that will fade to a black screen the n fade into the next cut.

Dissolve – this cut looks like a shot is dissolving into another shot.

Montage- a montage is when loads of shots are placed together, sometimes to show a timeline.

Wipe – this is where it cuts into another shot looking like someone has wiped the other shot off.