Chapter 2 - Editing styles and conventions.

Editing styles and conventions

- Hollywood montage and Souiest montage

- Transition types are the nuts about bolts of editing, they are what give an effect on a scene. A key example of transition types is wipes. Wipes were mostly famous in the 1980's especially in the Star Wars films to the audience it was like opening the a new chapter. When the used the wipe when came from the corna of a page and went to a different scene that is a classic example to the audience its changing from one scene to another.

L cuts & split edits
The point of this is to see people's reactions instead of going back and fourth loads of times from one character to another. The editor would try and focus on the person who has the most dialogy rather than the character which doesn't. As they would be talking they would focus on the main character however the editor would also not forget to point the camera on the character speaking the most. The editor would also have the main characters audio playing whilst point onto another character as he could be agreeing then shot back to the main character.
The reason its called L cuts is because in editing its shaped like an L.

Jump cuts
Jumps cuts are an obvious cut. It would be jumping from one scene to another in an obvious manner, all editors use this technique. It is one of the easiest simple ones you can do. Jumps cuts can be about changing from one back ground to another, the camera will usually stay the same but not always.

Wipes
They were very famous in the 80's
They showed the audience it was a start of a new chapter.
Often it was a different way to start a new scene (jump cut)