Wednesday, 11 November 2015

Editing Week 8

Early Films

Lumiere Brothers 

First film- 'Workers Leaving the Factory' 1895 - 120 years old (Very short, static camera, one take, everything moves in front of the camera, silent)

George Melies- Discovered the first jump cut by mistake- Introduced editing techniques, fades, overlapping, dissolves, stop motion animation etc. Trip to the Moon 1902 (Films very theatrical)

Edwin S. Porter: the life of an american fireman (1903)

DW Griffith Father of film editing continuity editing. Intolerance (1916) cross cutting, inter titles, tempo created by editing- screened all over the soviet union- griffith films were stymied there. editing is a tool to guide your viewer

Sergei Eisenstin- theory of montage

Documentary Editing

Walter Murch on editing





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