Essays on Editing

Navigating the waters of higher education can be distressing, especially if you’re afraid of water (like me). While attempting to cram a university experience into eight succinct semesters, most of us are confronted with several weighty challenges, including considering which GEs to take, which majors match our skills and interests, which skills and interests will…

Editing is referred to by many editors as “The Invisible Art”, By popular definition, if editing is done well, the audience of a particular film should not even notice or pay attention to the details of the editing itself, In other cases, editing is used in unconventional ways to make one pay close attention to…

Stanley Kubrick’s The Killing uses many editing techniques to establish spatial, temporal, visual, and rhythmic relationships between shots. He strategically strings shots together in order to maintain continuity and create meaning. From the second the film begins, the editing sets the scene that the rest of the movie will support. In doing this, the movie…

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…