Editing

There are many different editing techniques, such as; continuity, cut, cross-cutting, slow motion, filter, reverse, dissolve, green screen, fast motion, captions etc

We were focusing on continuity editing and looking at how important it is. These cuts make us feel we are watching the action as it happens, the cuts disguise any gaps.
We then watched a clip from 'Tsotsi' which used ellipsis to cut things out to save time, it did appear very real and I didn't feel it jumped at all, the diegetic and non-diegetic sounds carried on over the clips which made them link and flow well. This uphelp the illusion of spatial and temporal continuity, I think the sound was most important in that but also how the camera followed the people, it didn't jump from place to place, it makes the audience not even realise the ellipsis, they almost forget that there was other time in between that because it is clear we didn't need that time to be seen.

Montage editing is the opposite but also another one of the most used editing technique, the most famous example is probably 'Psycho' and montage editing is probably very important for a music video, it's like a mash up or 'discontinuos editing' it doesn't rely on keeping things in time, it can go from one place and time to another very fast, I think I want to use quite a mixture of these two editing techniques as I want to montage but have some idea of time and when things happened but there will be large gaps of time as it is meant to show the change over months.