Editing In Film: Part 3

After filming a movie, the movie still needs changes to make it more aesthetically pleasing, interesting, eye-catching, etc. This is where Editing is introduced. Editing in film is a technical code used by filmmakers to give the film more aesthetically pleasing look to it and to enhance the genre, therefore, attracting more audiences. My teammates and I had been assigned work to do regarding the definition and examples of some editing techniques. So, in this blog, I will be discussing the final portion of my contribution towards this assignment and, since we were all assigned nine techniques in total, this blog will be discussing three of those techniques, having two blogs previously discussing three techniques each, equating to nine techniques discussed.

Fade-in & Fade-out 

A fade is when the scene gradually turns to a single color — usually black or white — or when a scene gradually appears on screen. Fade-ins occur at the beginning of a film or scene, while fade-outs are at the end. 

IN: The dark beginning of a film, where a black screen fades into  a city with a lot of smoke. 

A portion of the film in which a character is now recovering from fainting. 

The screen fades into a spinning ceiling fan where someone wakes up from a dream. 

OUT: The happy ending of a film where the screen fades out to white. 

A person starts feeling dizzy at a party because they have had too much to drink, the screen fades out as they start to faint. 

Sirens are wailing at a crime scene as the screen fades to flashing red and blue lights. 

Action Match 

the editor cuts from one shot to another view that matches the first shot's action. 

Someone opens a door and the camera cuts to the other side of the door where the same person walks through it. 

A bed is being made in the scene and as the person lays the pillows at the head of the bed, the camera switches angles to the opposite end of the area, where the audience sees the same action being continued by the same character. 

As a character tilts their head to the left, the camera changes angles to face another character looking at them using an OTS shot, the character appears to be tilting their head to the right instead, but in all reality, it is in the same direction.