Media Language, Editing Examples Activity

Media Language, Editing Examples Activity

I will be looking through different film and TV clips in order to spot different editing techniques used within them and point them out.



Eye-line Match

Example: Lord of The Rings: Return of the King

An eye-line match is when the camera focuses on a character looking at something and then proceeds to show the audience what the character is looking at. In this example the camera shows a close-up of Gandalf looking at something in the distance only for the shot to change to the Fell Beast and showing the audience what Gandalf was looking at. This is an example of a eye-line match

Montage, Jump Cut and Match on Action.

Example: Hot Fuzz


In this example of a montage from Hot Fuzz it shows the characters experiencing a single day of police work. Each cut goes forward in time showing the process of the day making each cut a jump cut. Furthermore, each time the camera cuts it is during an action showing the technique match on action being used. So in this scene from Hot Fuzz there is the use of jump cuts, match on action cuts and the whole scene is a montage.



Parallel Editing


Example: American Sniper

Parallel editing is when two scenes happen a long side each other and the camera constantly switches between both scenes. In this example from American Sniper the camera switches between two scenes. One where we see the sniper at work and the other where we see the rest of the military coming in. This is an example of Parallel Editing.
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Straight Cut

There was a straight cut in all three of my previous examples. They are very common as they are simply the camera cutting away to a different shot. All the scenes i have covered above have an example of a straight cut