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Basic Betacam Camerawork, 3rd Edition
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Basic Betacam Camerawork, 3rd Edition

by Peter Ward
April 2013
Beginner
224 pages
7h 22m
English
Routledge
Content preview from Basic Betacam Camerawork, 3rd Edition

Perennial editing techniques

The skills and craft employed by the film editor to stitch together a sequence of separate shots persuades the audience that they are watching a continuous event. The action flows from shot to shot and appears natural and obvious. Obviously the craft of editing covers a wide range of genres up to and including the sophisticated creative decisions that are required to cut feature films. However, there is not such a wide gap between different editing techniques as first it would appear.

Rearranging time and space

When two shots are cut together the audience attempts to make a connection between them. For example, a man on a station platform boards a train. A wide shot shows a train pulling out of a station. The audience ...

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ISBN: 9780240516042