"When you edit, try and get a variety of shots in there (ie close up, wide, medium, long etc.). This is especially good in a short film and makes it more exciting and if the shot selection is good enough, it will leave the viewer feeling involved, even in a short period of time.
Remember, half the emotion comes from the editing, if you get it right there will be a big wow factor, but if you get it wrong your film will look feeble. Editing is possibly the most important part of the filming process."
I am going to start off by giving a few examples of good editing and then some examples of bad editing.
The secret of editing is through continuity the first film I shall be talking about is by a personal favourite short film company, Finite Films:
This is called Stealing Time-
A crucial thing to remeber when making a short film as complicated as this is not to forget something crucial especially when using something like time travel.
For example when howard is chasing his past selves each one has to be precisely correct, in the exact position and the exact time this can be done easily through just shooting one scene and repeating but when it comes to explaining each moment facial expressions have to be precise.
the continuity is fantastic here as we have got the pho0ne call in the middle and then the phone call later on in the film.
If I was to correct this in any way I would probably have missed out the CGI on the time machine and just used sounds to show the effect. I think it looks a bit amateur especially when you are trying to show to people that this is what you are not.
A bad example of editing is by looking at this short film-
The problem with this film is that the editing is too fancy. It uses too many fades in an outs. Causing it to be quite slow. although the upside to it is that the idea of the film is that the girl is "Too Shy" so the slow and smooth editing connotes her slow and perhaps quiet persona.
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