Editing and Montage in International Film and Video

9 PSYCHOLOGICAL AND PERCEPTUAL BASES OF EDITING

 

 

PERCEPTION AS AN INTELLECTUAL PROCESS

The act of perceiving a filmic product consists of not only the presence of images that have been edited, projected or broadcast; there needs to be a “receiver” who gathers the stream of information and watches it, pays attention to it, processes it and evaluates it. This model, which considers the cinema screen as a space where identification and recognition between the emitter and receiver converge, represents the cornerstone of the Institutional Mode of Representation (IMR) proposed by the film theorist Noël Burch (Burch 1998). In essence, this film theory concerns the modeling of the meaning of North American cinematography from the early years ...