Providing and withholding information - CD

Providing and withholding information is used in tv programmes and films. It is where the audience knows more about the characters than they do. Some writers allow the audience to find out before the characters.

Editing Rythm - CD

Editing Rhythm is what editors use to the keep the pace of the film up to match the action that is happening in the film. Slow cut edits have a calming feel to the edit where as fast cut edits have an exciting lively effect to it.

Cutting to soundtrack - CD

This means the edit point is determined by the soundtrack used. An example of this is in glee where in most of this clip they use the beat of the music to determine the editing points. Sometimes the editing works around the song. For example fast song, fast editing and slow song, slow editing.

Shot Variation - LB

This is when a single stream of images are uninterrupted by editing where the shot can use a static or mobile framing a standard or a non-standard film rate. But it must be a continuous motion The shot is one of the basic units of cinema yet has always been subject to manipulation, for example stop-motion cinematography or superimposition.

Here is an example from the matrix

Manipulation of Diegetic time and space - CD

This is used to make it look like an object or a person or a place is changing over time. It helps the audience to easily visualize the change of a certain thing. Here is a great example of this in Harry Potter 3 the Prisoner of Azkaban

Multiple points of view - CD

This is where the characters are showing each side of view. One character will show what they are seeing and it will then change to what the over character is seeing.       

Following the Action - LB

Following the action

Is when there is a lot of camera movements. Good examples of this are in most action films where the camera follows everything that’s happening at all times to show everything that’s happening in the fight/action scenes.

In this clip from Mr and Mrs smith which has a big action scene towards the end of it. In this clip the camera rotates around the whole fight to show you everything that’s going on.