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G.C.S.E Film Studies

Editing and Effects

+Starter

What is Editing?

What is the impact of it on a film?

+Todays Objectives

WALT What is the importance of editing in a film? How can you move from shot to shot? What is the impact

with forms of movement. What types of effects are their?

WILF Identify the importance of editing and consdier the impact

of tempo for the audience. Differentiate the different methods of transitions and

consider why different techniques might be used. Explain and understand the difference between computer

effects and practical effects.

+Sequencing

Work in groups on your table.

Put the shots in order

You have ten minutes and then you will feedback to the group.

Consider what was discussed last weeks lesson on camera shots.

Use what you learnt to put the shots into an order that convey meaning?

Each shots cut should be for a reason

+Sequencing

+Editing – creating meaning

The move from one shot to another is called a CUT.

The editing is how the story is told to the audience, keeping a wide shot is boring it creates visual interest for the audience.

The edit will also draw and move to what is of interest to the viewer.

+Pace

This is the speed of the cuts.

It could be fast or slow, a film will often have a different pace for different scenes depending on what is happening.

A conversation A fight

The pace will often increase when more dramatic things are happening.

+Transitions The use of an effect to move from one shot to another

Dissolve

Fade to Black

Wipe

+Discuss

When might you use in film from the movies you have seen a:

Wipe Dissolve Fade to black

+Split Screen

Including two different images at once

Example Team America or Oceans Eleven

This will usually be related to each other

+Additional Effects

Images and graphics

Text

This is often used in foreign films to translate the language. It could also be used for a stylistic effect.

Example – BMW What impact does the use of onscreen text have on this film? Do you like the effect or dislike it (offputting)?

+Example

Write a short analysis of the editing being used in the extract consider.

The pace of the editing is it fast or slow? Why is this pace used what does it suggest about the

events that are happening? Are there any effects being used such as transitions or

visual effects like split screens or text.

+Effects

There are two main types of effects used in film.

Practical Effects

C.G.I – Computer Generated Images

+Practical Effects

There are a variety of practical effects.

Fake Cuts / Wounds on skin Prosthetics Creature / monsters Puppets Animatronics

A practical effect is anything the actor can interact with.

+Practical Effects

+CGI

This can be used now for a variety of uses.

Creating characters Creating backgrounds / worlds / universe Destroying things that would cost to much to do for real or

would never be allowed.

+CGI

Consider in groups and feedback

What examples can you think of that used CGI? Do you think the CGI was important to the film? Could the film have been made without the use of

computers?

+CGI