Editing and Post Production

Film editing is the process of assembling individual takes into an aesthetic and understandable film. Reconstructing the sequence of events written in the script.

An Editors role involves piecing the preferred takes in a logical order, while following the story line and being imaginative and artistic. Editors manage to find innovative ways of putting together a sequence of shots, with the aim of making the audience feel a certain way. In collaboration with a good-quality music score and VFX an editor can create the whole feel for a scene.

Continuity editing is a universal system that creates shots and scenes to flow visually. It is a popular technique in which the editor makes ‘invisible' cuts, maintaining continuous action and without distracting optical inconsistencies. The method's intentions are that viewers don't consciously notice the cuts and the narrative is seamless. Continuity editing, (also called ‘Hollywood editing') aspires......

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