Editing Techniques

There are many different ways to edit a film, and all these different types of edeting makes the viewer view the film in different ways. What i mean by this, is that you can edit some films to be a comfortable watch for the viewer, and you can also edit some films to be an uncomfortable watch for the viewer.

One form of editing which makes the film a comfortable watch is called balletic editing. Balletic editing is where each time a shot cuts, the next shot will pick up in the same spot on the screen as the last shot finished. A classic example of Balletic editing was in the film "The Wild Bunch". What ends up happening in balletic editing is that the shots end up forming a cirlce, which is comfortable for the viewer to watch, and easy on the eye.

If you were going to make a film uncomfortable to watch for a certian reason you would do the opposite to balletic editing. For example, when you cut from one shot, insted of the next shot starting in the same place, it would start in a completly different part of the screen. This would be hard on the viewers eye as they would be constantly trying to follow the action.