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D.W. Griffiths

D.W. Griffith

David W. Graffith is known and respected by the whole filming community for all the innovative editing techniques he developed throughout his filming career. Some of the editing methods he created are cross cutting, close ups, seamless editing and a lot more creative shots. The techniques he developed are still being used in this day and age; he made a major impact on the editing scene, without him, who knows what kind of editing techniques we would be using right now. His most well known films are The great train robbery and The life of a fireman where he revolutionized editing as we know it. In the Life of a fireman, he used cross cutting for the first time, he switched from the victim of a fire to the fireman to increase the tension to make the viewer worry about the victim, since the audience of that era were not aware of such unusual edits.

A lot of directors and editors have used his techniques ever since he developed them. One very well known and extremely popular technique to use during filming is cutting during action from a wide angle shot to a close up and making the whole transition look very smooth. Since it's so smooth, no one every notices or appreciates it.
David Llewelyn Wark Griffith will forever be remembered as the person who revolutionized the life of editing.

In camera editing evaluation

The advantages of doing in camera editing is that in encourages the actors to do their very best since there are no re-shoots so everyone will be on their toes and try extremely hard to leave no room for failure. Another advantage is that everything is natural and you can gradually learn from your mistakes since there's no editing to cover up the faults you made during the filming. 

While on the other hand, you could argue that lack of editing is a major disadvantage, which is highly agreeable due to the fact that everything looks unprofessional and pretty much unpleasing to the eye if the scene requires a large amount of editing. Another disadvantage of in camera editing is that you are unable to add any sort of effects. No music, no smooth transitions and no impressive video effects to alter the video for the better and amaze the audience.

Non edited scenario

Editing

Editing builds tension by increasing the frequency of the cuts and making scenes shorter.

Cross cutting is when you switch between 2 stories happening at the same time.

Reaction shots are used to show the reactions of other people.

Seamless editing is putting in simple clips without explaining what's going on but still making it easy enough for the audience to figure it out.


Jump cuts are taking out a section in the same scene and making it more effective.

A flashback is a scene in the movie which takes place at an earlier time than the main story and is basically a very vivid memory.

Poetic editing is making the audience think about what exactly is going on.

Introduction to editing

"The gloaming"


Editing is a process of selecting different shots and putting them together to tell a story. There are different techniques you can use to tell a story, for example, you could use elliptical editing which is making screen time shorter than story time to cut out unnecessary actions. If you want to show the surroundings of the character to the viewers you could use a long shot. To make a scene more intense or dramatic you could add some music. That's called non-diagetic sound, which is a sound that the characters in the film can't hear. One of the most effective techniques in editing is condensing shots to save time by simply making connections.


"Hustle"


To establish a clear location and introduce some characters, an overhead establishing shot is necessary as it shows the position of the characters and their locations. If you want to create a scene with 2 characters talking to each other, it is highly suggested that you use the Shot-Reversed-Shot as it cuts in and out of 2 people talking and suggests that those characters are talking to each other. If you want to make it more clearer that the 2 characters are talking to each you gotta make sure that their eye-line is matching to each other. So if 1 person is standing and the other is sitting, the person whos standing should be looking down and off camera while the sitting person should look up and off camera. While discussing the plan in one of the scenes in "hustler" the camera cuts in and out of all the characters to show their reactions to every bit of the news. After the plan it cuts to a new location using the effect called 'wipe' which establishes a new time and place. They also use quick cuts which keeps the audience on their toes due to the face pace of the sequence.

Commission

When trying to get commissioned by BBC you have to ensure that the title and the description for your project are compelling enough to catch the BBC’s attention.

Once you send off a hardcopy of your script to the BBC, they will send you a letter back confirming that they indeed recieved your script. What happens next is they sort it out and decide whether it’s a keeper or not, if they keep it, it moves onto the next step which is being read. If they love your script they will invite you for a meeting where you will discuss the details of your show and the money you’ll be recieving from it. After that you begin developing your show.