Editing Research

Editing is all about how your use cuts or transitions to 'position' the viewer to show them what they want to see.

Walter March

He says there's 6 main criteria for evaluating film editing, in particular a cut or deciding where to cut. Editing can portray different ideas to contribute to the film.

The most important idea is...

• emotion being 51% out of 100, a cut/technique can reflect to what's happening in the film and show a emotion.
• story being 23% out of 100, a cut or transition can help move the story along.
• rhythm being 10% out of 100, it can be effective to cut to the rhythm of the background music.
• eye trace being 7% out of 100, the cut respects the location and movement of they audiences focus of interest within the frame.
• Two dimensions plane of the screen being 5% of 100 and if the cut respect the 180 degree rule.
• Three dimensional space of action being 4% of 100 and if the cut is true to the physical/spatial relationships.

I am going to use this research and experiment with the editing to portray different ideas and make it more interesting.