DIRECTIONS UNIT: Editing and Sound Design

Editing

- The art of joining separate shots together
- Unique to film making - often referred to as 'invisible art' - when done well, it is so immersive the viewer doesn't notice the edits
- Creates emotion, drama, rhythm and action
- Language of film editing has developed over the years, the technology has developed as well
- Films used to be spliced together using a machine called a Steenbeck

- Avid is the editing system most commonly used in professional editing studios

- Continuity editing is the predominate form of editing in narrative film
- Taking discontinuous shots and creating a continuous whole
- Continuity editing is crucial for good story telling - only leave bits in that help your narrative
- The pacing of the editing can help to create drama. The editing creates pace, rhythm and emotion.
- An emotional scene should hold shots for longer
- Ana action scene will be cut quicker

There are many different types of editing techniques:
- match on action
- cross cutting
- montage
- fade / dissolve

There are different stages in the editing process:
- log
- assembly cut
- rough cut
- fine cut
- final cut

Sound Design 

- capturing, layering and mixing individual sound elements to create one single soundtrack for the project
- shoot and edit sound

Sound Layers:
(7 different types of tracks)
- Dialogue - recorded dialogue from shoot
- Sync - recorded sound from shoot (not dialogue)
- ADR - automatic dialogue replacements - dubbed dialogue
- FX - certain sound effects
- Foley - sound effects created by foley artists
- Atmos - sound elements that make up the atmosphere
- Music - all music (non diegetic and diegetic)

The art of sound design is to add depth, feeling and emotion.