The Evolution of Editing in Movie Making

As technology has progressed throughout the years, so has the art of filmmaking. From the very first movie ever produced lasting only 13 minutes. To the mass production it takes nowadays to make an hour and a half of entertainment. Movie production technology has grown into a multi billion dollar industry growing every year.

Editing in Breathless is used to great extent to not only assist in the telling of the narrative, but also to convey certain feelings to the audience. By employing a mostly discontinuous style of editing, the film puts emphasis on the crime genre of the film as well as the events unfolding around the main character. This method of editing mostly calls attention to itself as a film technique, rather than a more continuous, concealed style of editing like in Casablanca. At the same time, however, this approach of editing for the film also creates very steady pacing and a discernable rhythm of the shots presented.

The motion camera was first conceived allowing the establishment of film production companies; technological limits meant films were silent and generally less than a minute in length.

Ever since its first introduction in 1893, motion pictures have become a remarkably successful medium that portray drama and arouse the audiences’ emotions. It allowed for the audience to escape from the hassles of everyday life and immerse themselves into the world of the story’s narrative. From the 1920s to the 1960s, motion pictures began to dramatically develop, building on the practices established from the previous years of film. Prior to this period, motion pictures were only silent films. In 1927 and the early 1950s, the addition of sound and color began to revolutionize film aesthetics and the industry as a whole.

With the combination of today’s effects that you can add to both videos and photographs, the possibilities and the amount of information that can be communicated to the viewer is great and has tremendously improved when compared to the past. One photograph alone may not be enough, but simply two or more photographs will slowly unfold the story that you are looking at and slowly fill in the puzzle/problem that you’re trying to understand or solve. Video texts simply further the extent of knowledge that can be communicated with you because videos are basically a collection of photograph, but in another sense videos are their own being. Videos can express full events built off of the collaboration and collective knowledge that you gain while making the video, but with the video you are spreading your knowledge to others. As shown with the anime, an additional photo can provide more information to the viewer and simple video effects can inform the viewer what is happening within that scene. Therefore this shows the true power that multimedia has and also the limits

During the 1970’s Hollywood saw many changes occurring in the film industry, with big conglomerates buying up studios to the wave of films in the New Hollywood style of filmmaking and finally to the many technical innovations being explored throughout the decade. It was an important time than and it is still important to modern Hollywood cinema with the many innovations directly effecting all aspects of filmmaking. Of all the innovations to occur during the 1970’s-1980’s the big three had to be the improvement upon digital effects work, the investments toward a film marketing campaign and finally the new and quickly growing video market.

Going to the movie theaters to watch the newest blockbuster hit is nothing out of the ordinary in todays era. This was not always the case, when motion picture’s first came to life it was more than just another film, it had audiences astonished and amazed at what they were seeing in front of their eyes. Very few people in todays generation go to view a film and look at it as an art form, this is not surprising with modern special effects and non stop explosions. Tracing cinema to its roots leads you to the 35mm film camera, the true foundation of modern cinematography. Technology is improving and expanding faster than ever

Color in the film could provide information about a kind of narrative situation, therefore hencing to make the story clearer from the spectator’s point of view (Winokur). Camera improvements have improved the quality of movies significantly. Improvements in cameras made movies have a clearer view. The audience could see things in better definition (Piccirillo). The invention of 3D has improved some movies. Specially made projectors have allowed audiences to see some movies in 3D. A DC I-compatible projector is needed to have a 3-D screen (Brett). Improvements in movie definition have also impacted movies significantly. The invention of high definition (HD) has improved the visibility of movies. Now that movie theaters keep getting bigger and bigger movie screens have allowed audiences to see movies in greater perspective (Brett). Although technology has improved movie image it has also helped movie sound and movie editing.

The film industry has continuously changed since its inception due to rapid technology advancements. Camera technology has been a key factor that has influenced the growth of filmmaking. The first motion picture in the world was produced in the early 1880s, and the first public screening occurred ten years later. It didn’t take long for the quality of films to improve as new filmmaking equipment emerged. Ever since the first movie was produced, the film industry has been continuously changing in response to emerging filmmaking technology. Introduction of digital photography and digital data storage along with the development of internet significantly influenced the film industry (Barsam, 2015). These technologies contributed

Edwin Hernandez Professor Bulington Introduction to Film 5 October 2015 Safe Observational Essay The invention of movies has greatly progressed over the many years since its creation. What was once pictures rapidly revolving around to appear as though the image was moving is now a series of high–tech editing and complex techniques. A common theme, however, has not changed as the years have gone by.

Directors utilize a variety of editing tools to highlight elements of a film’s narrative. Cross-cutting is an editing technique that shows multiple streams of action occurring at the same time. Steven Soderbergh uses this device in the opening sequences of his film, Contagion, (2011). The film begins with a black screen and the sound of a cough from an unknown person and cuts to a close-up of Gwyneth Paltrow eating nuts out of a bowl at an airport bar. Soderbergh shows the viewer that this is the second day of an unknown disease outbreak by superimposing the information in red across the screen. In the next shot, he cross-cuts to an establishing shot of Hong Kong and superimposes the city’s name and population informing the viewer that

By making small but significant changes to the conventions of cinema, the artificiality of the

During the mid to late years of the 19th century, a new form of entertainment emerged. Film entered the stage of innovation. New marketing and technological innovations developed for film to become the art it is today. In the 1830s, Joseph Plateau designed the Phenakistoscope. This device had a picture in the middle of a wheel made with mirrors and small openings. When spun, the Phenakistoscope made the picture appear to move. The name changed to Zoetrope in the 1860s and producers advertised the product as an accessory every home needed (Dixon & Foster, 2008). Later inventions that preceded the first motion picture camera include: Henry Du Mont’s Omiscope, Henry R. Heyl’s Phasmatrope, Eadweard Muybridge’s Zoöpraxiscope, Etienne-Jules Marey’s fusil photographique and Eastman Kodak’s chronophotographs (Parkinson, 1997). With a design by Thomas Edison, William Kennedy Laurie Dickson built the first modern movie camera, the Kinetograph, in 1890 (Dixon & Foster, 2008). In 1895, Auguste and Louis Lumiére patented the Cinématographe, a machine that combined the engineering of a camera and a projector (Bergan, 2006). Businessmen capitalized on the growing need for a place to witness these brand new films, thus they charged people to see them in their living rooms (Potter, 2014). These creations made movie-making a reality.

As discussed in the last chapter, the video disruption occurred by a video cut has the potential to focus the attention and make the audience conscious of the video editing. The level of understanding of audience differs between continuity and discontinuity video editing. As the mismatch in video condition is just as big towards both continuity and discontinuity video editing. May be some level of video cuts may lead audience proper focus on video cuts.

Film Industry has been expansively affected by the changes in technology. The mechanical and digital innovations give cause to the influence of equipment, distribution and the way in which films are made and consumed. New trends shape directors and filmmakers to expand creatively towards telling stories in motions. The film industry has developed to one of the most important tools of communication, it's cause so powerful affecting the way individuals and societies think, act and behave. Among the new Era approaching film, and seeing celluloid film fade is that of the Digital Era and a camera that saw celluloid films passing hastened.