5 Master Editing Techniques Analysis

 

This clip conveys contrast, because the student is telling the counselor that he is doing great in his classes, however we use flashbacks that show the exact opposite. The audience sees the student is actually struggling in the classes, but telling the counselor he is doing great which is the contrast technique

I believe we did a great job on parallelism, as this clip utilizes great transitions, as we connected two different scenes visually by matching the elements of the shots. This is done by using the same shot and angle, and only showing the bottom half of the body walking. Each scene is related to eachother until we finally cross paths.

The next editing technique we showed was Leit Motiff, and i believe we did another amazing job on this one. Leit Motiff is the use of a consistent musical theme, camera angle, or a common element and in our clip we used a musical theme. Every time any positive thing happen we would shift the angle of the camera on to me, and i would thumbs up and smile whilst the happy song plays every single time(consistency is very important for this).

The next technique is symbolism, which we did by using an element in the film to do some sort of cut to a different scene.We did this by showing a paper with a very bad grade on it, and zoomed in on it to zoom out of a trash can as a transition to a different scene of me walking away with bad, negative body language. 

The fifth and final technique is Simultaneity, which is the cutting back and forth of two scenes which are happening simultaneously in order to show different point of views of the same occurence. We did this by utilizing a phone call between 2 people, which fits perfectly under simultaneity and we made sure to include both sides of the phone conversation. Although our idea was great, the phone conversation was butchered slightly due to a communication error between our group  however we still managed to use the technique effectively.