History
of Editing:
The true
start to Film Editing began in 1895 when the Lumiere Brothers invented the “Cinematographe”, it was three devices in one as it
could record, capture and project motion pictures. But the Lumiere Brothers had a limited view on what to do with such a device, but
Edwin S. Porter show that the footage didn't have to be just long
stills but it could be used to tell story's and that changing the order of the footage or adding new clips in could change a story completely.
Another
of the founder of the Editing world was D.W Griffiths, in his film
“For Love of Gold” Featured the first ever continuity cut. It
was then that Griffths realized that he could get different emotions
from different camera angles and the pace of the edits and it was not
all down to the Actors. Griffiths produced the first American feature
film and had discovered the use of the close up.
Griffiths
film “The birth of a Nation” in 1915 was the one of the first to
use techniques such as panoramic long shot, still shots, cross
cutting and the panning shot, these techniques are still used in
film to day. Griffiths also used sound to make his films more
interesting as well to make the audience feel more involved in what
they where seeing.
The
change from Analogue editing to Digital editing change the speed and effeteness of how we edit to day. Analogue editing took time and
practice as you had to cut the film reel and pasted it together how
you wanted it to look and then sent it through a machine such as a
Moviola. But Digital editing was done with computer which was much
faster and efficient. the footage is loaded on the a computer and a
program such as Final Cut Pro or Adobe Premier is used to cut the
footage and put it in the order you want as well you could add more
effects and the use of green screen editing started to coming to
play.
The
History of editing has come a long way since we had to cut the reels
and past them together, but the techniques used have stayed with use
and will be used for years to come.
