What I Learnt Today: Editing

Today I learnt that editing is a vital part of making a film which often goes unnoticed. I also learnt how so many shots are used then edited together to create more of an atmosphere and make the audience feel like part of the filmic world. Here are some other short points about things that I learnt about editing:

-Film editors connect films most commonly by  a straight cut, fade out, dissolve, wipe cut or jump cut.
-The shorter the clips used are the more tense the scene becomes (e.g. In Hot Fuzz when the residents were shown very quickly made the audience become frightened)
- How the film is edited can either shrink or expand time and can also set a rhythm to the scene.
- We watched a clip of 'Jack' by Breach and counted the cuts...There were around 300! Way more than you would think just by watching it in a casual situation.

-We also watched a clip of Tangled and estimated the number of times editing is used and then counted, there were around 46 which is a lot more than we all expected to be in such a short clip.