EDITING
Film Literacy
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The logic implied between edit shots, their coherence.
CONTINUITY
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CUTTING TO CONTINUITY
Emphasizes a smooth
transition between shots in
which time and space are
unobtrusively condensed
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Is more complex in nature,
classical cutting is the linking
of shots according to an
event’s psychological, as well
as logical, breakdown.
CLASSICAL CUTTING
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A type of editing in which separate shots are
linked together by symbolic association
rather than by their literal continuity to
reality.
THEMATIC MONTAGE
PARALLEL EDITING
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The alternating of shots from
two sequences, often from
different locations,
suggesting that they are
taking place at the same
time
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A rule that helps avoid confusion for
the spectator by stabilizing the
space of a given playing area from
shot to shot
180° RULE
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JUMP CUT
An abrupt transition
between shots,
sometimes deliberate,
which is disorienting in
terms of the continuity
of space and time
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The Kuleshov effect is a film
editing (montage) effect
demonstrated by Soviet
filmmaker Lev Kuleshov in the
1910s and 1920s. It is a mental
phenomenon by which viewers
derive more meaning from the
interaction of two sequential
shots than from a single shot in
isolation.
KULESHOV EFFECT