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 Presentation Notes

This is my presentation video, I'm going to talk about how editing techniques have changed and developed over time, the first editing technique that I'm going to talk about is the montage - invented by Sergei Eisenstein, he is well known as the 'Father of Montage'. Montage is the technique of selecting, editing and piecing together separate sections of film to form a continuous whole.
I have examples of modern and older montage on the next slide.
The older montage is Eisenstein's first film, the shots are much longer and pace is very slow compared to modern montage nowadays.
The modern montage is quantum of solace, the shots are much fast as well as the face, in the modern one you can't really see the shots changing because of how fast the pace is, but in the older one you can see them because the shots are so long. 

Primitive editing;
Discovered that editing shots into a sequence not only contributed to the audiences sense of tale but also enabled them to tell more complex stories as a result. You can see primitive editing in films like the great train robbery, in early times the cuts were made in the camera, the camera man would just stop cranking at the exact end of a shot and begin cranking again at the start of another shot, when the camera was moved elsewhere or when something else was put in front of it.This kind of editing could allow for some early special effects. In movies he is making at the turn of the century, Georges Méliès stops the camera after detonating a magic puff of smoke in front of his actor, then begins the camera again after the actor has left the stage, making it seem as if the actor has magically vanished.

D.W Griffiths contribution to editing was though he did not invent any of the editing techniques he used but he made them emotionally significant. He influenced people worldwide in the art of editing, the Moscow film school of the 1920s ha played Griffiths intolerance over and over again to its students in order to use Griffiths techniques.

Our time -

Even in an era of incredibly advanced special effects, some filmmakers are still enamoured of the photographic realism in sustained shots. Perhaps the most conspicuous is Jim Jarmusch, who will hold his camera on his subjects for an agonizingly hilarious amount of time.

But the past 20 or so years has also seen the rise of "digital editing" (also called nonlinear editing), which makes any kind of editing easier. The notion of editing film on video originated when films were transferred to video for television viewing. Then filmmakers used video to edit their work more quickly and less expensively than they could on film. The task of cleanly splicing together video clips was then taken over by computers using advanced graphics programs that could then also perform various special effects functions. Finally, computers convert digital images back into film or video. These digital cuts are a very far cry from Méliè's editing in the camera.