Final Script

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Narrator:
- Sound Bites: Alfred Hitchcock, Walter
Today we will be exploring editing and how Murch, Steven spielburg
it has the ability to change the way films are
told and how they are viewed by audiences - Here I will be sat in front of a laptop with
editing software open. I will deliver this
(clip here) section of the script here.
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As you can see, this clip is very effective
because it demonstrates how editing can
show anything to an audience and they will - In this section the video of the train will be
believe what they see. This is down to the played while the voiceover is going on.
editing, but it is also enhanced by the actors
terror and the way she reacts to the
situation! The lighting and setting also help - This section of the script will be
this to look realistic. So as you can see from accompanied by visuals on a whiteboard.
this example, editing has such a great
importance to film and television.

Editing used to involve the process of an

editor cutting the film with scissors and
taping together the shots. This process was
called linear or destructive editing because
editors had to make physical cuts in the film
and this would obviously be irreversible.
- Demonstrate this with fake film and tape
- Have a match cut to show how cutting is
done now

Nowadays we have Adobe Premiere Pro,

Apple FinalCut Pro, and Avid. In the digital
editing age it is a lot easier to edit films.

In 1878, Eadweard Muybridge completed - Here there will be visuals of Eadweard

work in the early days of motion picture Muybridge’s work to show audiences what
projection. He was trying to prove that a film developed
horse's feet all left the ground
simultaneously. To prove his theory,
Muybridge decided to invent a
zoopraxiscope which was a lantern that
projected consecutive images.

The Lumiere brothers were the first to

create cinema as we know it. They gathered - Show the Lumiere brothers work and how
people in a café and projected the motion cinema works today
picture onto a wall using a cinematograph.
Nowadays we still follow the tradition of
going into a room with a large screen to
watch films.

George Melies was in the audience at the

Lumiere brothers showing of the train - Show George Melies work and compare his
entering the station. He was an illusionist work to modern day film and TV
who used pantomime and comedy mixed
with camera tricks to make his films. Melies
was forced out of the industry in 1913
because of new emerging talent.

Alfred Hitchcock was a motion-picture

director. His first real piece of work as a
director was The Lodger: A Story of the - In this section, I will show footage from
London Fog (1927). This was regarded as a Alfred Hitchcock films
successful film because it was very popular
and it was also the first film in which he
made a cameo appearance. He went on to
make many more films and he earned
awards and nominations for his work.
Hitchcock is particularly famous for his work
on editing and his work on the film Psycho
(1960). This was successful based on the - Include clips of Psycho here
way it is all cut together in a montage
format to tell a story without actually
showing the murder happen. It was also
successful because of how shocking it was to
kill of the main actress so soon into the film.
As well as all this, the editing with the music
helps to tell the story. The clever montage
technique used by Hitchcock in this film was
an inspiration to many other editors.

Walter Murch is predominately a sound

editor. He started his editing work on “the
Rain People” in 1969. He went on to edit
sound in “The Godfather part II”.
He won an Oscar for “Apocalypse Now” in
1979 and a double Oscar for best sound and
best film editing on “The English Patient”.
His work showed editors that sound can be
used to enhance storytelling and make it
engaging for audiences.
Thelma Schoonmaker is an American editor - Here I am going to implement a tutorial
who won an Oscar in 2004 for “The Aviator”. which will show the audience how the
She worked with Martin Scorsase for over technique is implemented into films.
40 years which shows how directors and
editors work closely together and how they
can form a workingpartnership.

A more modern film that has impacted the

film industry is James Cameron’s Avatar.
This film used new technologies and CGI to
make the characters in post- production.
They used facial sensors to capture emotion
in the actors features which helps to make
the audience empathetic towards the
avatars.

Another successful modern day piece is

Edgar Wright’s Baby Driver, which uses
editing to the beat to create punchy action
sequences. The editors worked on set to
complete their work and they could easily
request new footage if it wasn’t up to the
standard that they desired. The modern film
industry has more unique talent and editors
can put their mark on their work because of
the endless possibilities that editing has.

In editing nowadays, camera tricks are no

longer uses to astonish audiences. Digital
editing has now taken its place and new
techniques are being used to create - Show technique on premiere pro and then
intriguing pieces of film. show finished technique.
One of these techniques would be split
screen. Split screen is used to duplicate an
image or to create effects like this one: …. It
can also be used to separate clips across a
screen. The technique of split screen can be
achieved by using the crop tool on premiere
pro. To begin, I am layering the two clips on
top of each other and placing the crop tool
on the top clip. I am then going to effect
controls and adjusting the options
accordingly. I will finish the effect by
feathering out the cut to make the line
invisible and therefore the effect will look
better and more realistic.
Another technique that is commonly used in
films is parallel editing. This technique
allows audiences to watch two pieces of
storyline which are happening
simultaneously. To make a parallel edit, the
scene simply cuts from one to another
eventually ending with them coming
together or impacting each other somehow.
A successful parallel edit would be one
where the audience is aware of the two
storylines and how they link together, but
the editing isn't jarring or distract the
audience from the story.

Today I will be talking to some individuals

about editing and the way it effects their
lives. I want to find out more about how - In this section I will be speaking to a camera
editing affects people in a variation of ways - Presenter led
and therefore, I will be speaking to _
individuals on what editing means to them.

(Interviews 1 and 2)

When I met with Amy Pettipher, an editing

MA student from the National Film and
Television school, she showed me an old
editing system called a steenbeck that was
used in the 1990s.

After hearing different opinions on editing,

we now have a better understanding of its
importance to many groups of people. We
also now know how people follow a career
in the media industry and the path that they
go down to achieve their dreams.

We have explored editing from its primitive

stages to modern day and it shows that with
technological advances, more and more is
made possible.
- Have end scenes from films put into a
The media industry is constantly advancing montage
and it is evident from the history of editing,
that it changes because there is always new
talent emerging. Editing will keep changing
and the way films are told will change. The
history however; will not change and it will
always remain as an influence for all editors.