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The Technique of Film and Video Editing, 5th Edition
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The Technique of Film and Video Editing, 5th Edition

by Ken Dancyger
July 2014
Intermediate to advanced
486 pages
16h 43m
English
Focal Press
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CHAPTER 19

Editing for Subtexti

 

 

Editing is all about telling the story with images and sounds, just as screenwriting is telling the story with words and directing is telling the story with performance and camera. Editing can have straightforward goals or less straightforward goals. Editing with a less straightforward goal or secondary goal is editing for subtext. To understand how such a goal is achieved, we need first to understand how more straightforward goals are achieved in editing.

The history of editing is the creation of a series of discoveries that first addressed technical problems—continuity through place and time shifts, how to achieve dramatic emphasis, how to introduce a new idea into a scene, how to create identification ...

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ISBN: 9780240813974