What are editing techniques?

 

Films play a big roll in the modern world and can be used in many different ways, wether its a movie, documentary, advertisement, or another type of film. A film is always used to portray a message to the audience in the way that the directer would like to tell it. But one thing about films, is that the way the story is shown, will determine the way people react to the film. This is why various editing techniques can effect the way people feel towards what is happening in the film.

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The Kuleshov effect

 

The Kuleshov effect was demonstrated by a Soviet filmmaker known as Lev Kuleshov (hence the name). A good way to explain the Kuleshov effect is with the diagram below, which puts the scenes in a story board format. As you can see, there are 3 different versions of a scene. For the first one, there is not a lot of information you can get from the scene because it is just a portrait video of an old man. In the second version of the scene, a video of a baby and her mum is added in the middle of the scene, which makes him seem more innocent and nice. In the third version of the scene the middle video is replaced with a woman in a bikini posing in an     inappropriate position which makes him seem like a dirty old man. This effect is used quite often in film as it is a very powerful way to perceive something.

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