Directions Unit- Editing

For my editing I have decided to continuity editing, this follows a classic film narrative. Many films follow continuity editing such as The Kings Speech, this is a drama following the over coming of a speech impediment.

There are other types of editing such as in the film of Memento that was edited so that the film starts at the end.


Another type of editing is Linear and Non Linear. Linear editing is when a film project is put together in an ordered fashion, from beginning to end.  It's typical used when working with video tape, because digital video can't be cut and spliced. Non-Linear editing means that a project can be altered and arranged in any order.

Film editing traditionally was non-linear, because pieces of film could be cut and spliced into whatever order an editor chose, which was a slow process. Today's non-linear editing world is a digital one, with all images digitised and manipulated with computer. Non-linear editing on computers first began with systems like AVID in the early 1990's, and not film and video material can be organised into a timeline, where the editor can add transitions, effects and audio, then transfer and edited version to DVD or the internet.

This is an example from final cut pro, with a time line, event library and a series of effects that can be added. You can take the clips and arrange them in the time line and use the inspector to adjust audio and video.

Here is a short video from YouTube talking about French and American New Wave editing.