Task 6- Non Continuity Editing

Non-contuinity editing is a type of editing where there is no cutting, some editors will use this as they prefer it and is used in many films, the three films that i have chosen that have used it are ; A Bout De Souffle by Jean-Luc Goddard, The Shining by Stanley Kubrick and The Hunger Games by Gary Ross.

A Bout De Souffle was edited by Jean Luc-Goddard, and he was part of the French New Wave. The french new wave was a set of filmmakers who pushed editing to their limits in the 1950s and 1960s, they used a different typo of style compared to hollywood, this then resulted in the editing not having many cuts as it was a more relaxed way of editing. Also there is a use of jump cuts often. this is shown in the pictures below.

           Contuinity         

Jump cut 

 The shining is a film by Stanley kubrick, and shows a break in the 180 degree rule. This was used to crate a number of feelings that the audience would have, one being that they were arguing and the second is that it was more of a psycholgical battle as the film made the audience thing , especially with the ending, this then gets transferred to make the audience feel anxious, as shown in the picture below.
               

The Hunger Games by Gary Ross also shows the use of the 180 degree rule being broke, this is in the scene in the bedroom to show that the person is unfamiliar with the environment she is in, as they show more than one shot of the room , which is shown in the pictures below.

Task 5 - Continuity Editing

Continuity editing was known as the 'popular holloywood' style of editing, which was developed by early European and american film makers and directors. In particular by D.W. Griffith in his films such as the birth of a nation and intolerance.Continuity editing style ensures temporal and spatial continuity as a way of advancing narrative, using such techniques as the 180 degree rule, , match on action, and shot ,reverse shot and eye-line match

It helps to make sure that the film feels like it is moving forward. it doesn't mean you cat use flashback or flash forwards, as long as the narrative will still be seen to be progressing forward in an expected or realistic way.                  

180 Degree rule 
The 180 degree rule is a basic guideline that states that two characters (or other elements) in the same scene should always have the same left/right relationship to each other. If the camera passes over the imaginary axis connecting the two subjects, it is called crossing the line.

Eye-line match 
This technique links two shots together.We see a character looking at something off screen and then we cut to a shot of what they are looking at. This allows the audience to experience as event iin the film just as the character is experiencing it.

Match on Action
This technique links two shots together. We see a character start an action in one shot , the camera then cuts to a different angle and we see the character finish the action in the second shot. this technique ensures that the action seems like one natural and realistic movement even when the actor may have already performed it twice.

Shot, Reverse Shot
This technique links two shots together. The first shot reveals one character and then the second shot reveals the second character. This allows the audience to connect the two characters and realise that they are interacting with each other.




In the my video there are some mistakes, however we have shown the techniques used above. The main mistakes that can be consistent throughout the video is that there is too many pauses, in between the joining of the clips as there is always a second pause as two clips are merged together. However we show a match on action in the beginning of the clip as we show a person going to open a door then show them coming in from the other side, suggesting to the audience that is done in one shot.

Task Four - Montage

There are 3 different meanings to the word 'montage'. The first meaning of the word montage is is the  french term for the simply editing in film, and assembly and installation. The second meaning of the word montage comes from soviet filmmaking in the 1920's, which was thek method of juxtaposing shots to derive new meaning that did not exist in either shot alone.
The final meaning of the word 'montage' comes from hollywood and means a short segment of film in which narrative information is presented in a condensed fashion which would be based over a certain time of period.]

There was 2 main film makers, their names was Lev Kuleshov and Sergei Ersenstein. Lev Kuleshov was among the very first to theorise about the relatively young medium of the cinema in the 1920's. He argued that editing a film is like constructing a building. Brick-by-brick the building is erected.He did an experiment that proves this print. He took an old film clip of a head shot of a russian actor and inter-cut the shot with different images. When he showed the film to the people they praised the actor's acting  . The audience was able to infer meaning to the actors facial expression by cutting to other scenes that may make it seem as the person is acting in a certain way.

Sergei Eisenstein was briefly a student of Kuleshov's, but the two parted ways because they had different idea's of montage. By contrasting unrelated shots Eisenstein tried to provoke associations in the viewer, which were induced by shocks.






In the montage above is an example of a soviet montage.The intention of this soviet montage is to make the audience believe that the character is weird by cutting from the person being normal to someone doing abnormal things, creating vision that maybe the person aint as normal as he first seems. This is done as we cut from the character being normal to another person stamping their feet and acting in a strange manor. I think it is successful as it makes the audience think that at first the person is normal but after a couple of scenes makes them wonder how strange the person is.



However in this montage above is an example of a hollywood montage, the intention of the montage is create a sequence of clips to show improvements over  period of time but shorten it down, at the beginning of the montage you will see the worst bits and as the further it gets into the montage the more improvement you see. The montage makes meaning as you see the team get better due to practice over a period of time, i think it is successful as it shows the improvement as the montage goes on.