Essays on Editing

D.W. Griffithls Techniques of Filmmaking Parallel editing or the ability to make two separate actions happen at the sametime, was innovated by DW. Griffith and is exclusive to films. Action films are a goodsource for these, as they give the impression of tensely reaching a climax In the film. In Vampires, by John Carpenter (1998),…

Editing is a very important part of any writing process, and in terms of team writing, collaborative editing means simultaneous work of all team members on editing the document. In other words, collaborative editing means making changes to the writing by all team members using special collaborative editing tools. One of the most popular strategies…

The Planning Strategies of a Publishing Writer” Berkenkotter & Murray Summary Berkenkotter’s research was designed to test the idea that researchers can study writing in a “laboratory” environment (as Perl did, and as Berkenkotter herself did in earlier research) * She studies Murray, a “publishing” writer, in both a lab & a natural setting, &…

Learning from Classmates From this class I had the opportunity to meet my classmates as well as them helping me write better papers. Every time we get the chance to peer edit, I sometimes get different types of response on my papers from my classmates. These responses help give me a better idea in how…

Over the years in school I have been taught a five step process for writing. It has been the topic of every English class I have ever taken since kindergarten. Most people, when they think of being taught how to write the immediately think of, English class. Even I do, As I thought about how…

The continuity-based editing and kino-eye as explained by Dziga Vertov are two very contrasting ways of filmmaking. Editing that puts continuity at the forefront is what we see most often in filmmaking, it puts all of the happenings of the film in temporal order so the plot makes sense to the viewers. Kino»eye does not…

Editing is something that if done well should barely be noticed by the untrained eye. It should be as subtle as a blink, and as Walter Murch suggests, with the same function as a blink. Cuts should be made to separate thoughts and to organize material in a way that allows us to intake material…

rStephanie Ralston Film Aesthetics and Analysis In the film, The Constant Gardener (Meirelles, 2005), the use of editing helps to convey a central theme of uncertainty. Another important theme that arises in the film is justice. Uncertainty progresses into a revealing of truth that leads the protagonist to seek justice. The plot follows a young…

Audacity, an internationally popular audio recording and editing software, is a powerful cross-platform program built with an open-source implementation layered upon several libraries that allow for its dynamic development. It was originally written in 1999 by Dominic Mazzoni, a research student at Carnegie Mellon. University, as a platform on which to develop and debug audio…

Pulp Fiction is a film by Quentin Tarantino that uses extraordinary techniques of editing, These editing techniques not only ignore basic film conventions but allow the film to have a feel that is very unique to it, The film was released in 1994 and was met with critical acclaim and is considered one of the…