Editing Screening Notes

CST 151:  Editing Screening Notes

1.  Focus on one particular scene from the film.  What is the motivation behind each cut?  What overall effect do these cuts have on the scene and the film?  Use specific evidence from the film to support your claim.

2.  Make a list of transitional devices besides cuts that are used in the film.  What spatial, temporal, or conceptual relationship is being set up between scenes joined by any of the transitional devices we discussed?  Use specific evidence from the film to support your claim (2 pts)

3.  How are spatial relationships among images established by the film’s editing patterns in a scene from this movie?  Use specific evidence from the film to support your claim.

4.  What is the temporal organization of the film?  Does the film follow a strict chronology?  How does the editing abridge or expand time?  What editing technique is used to covey this?  Use specific evidence from the film to support your claim.

5.  How does the rhythm of the editing in the sequence contribute to the scene’s mood or meaning? Use specific evidence from the film to support your claim.

6.  What different emotional and intellectual responses are evoked by the editing choices? Use specific evidence from the film to support your claim.

7.  Identify two techniques of continuity editing are used in the film.  How does this practice encourage you to identify with the characters or to believe in the story’s world?  Use specific evidence from the film to support your claim (2 pts)