History of editing

(29/09/15)

In 1908 D.W Griffiths created the film "for love of gold" that featured the first ever continuity cut for a scene. Griffiths also realized that he could express emotions through different camera angles and pace of editing and that it wasn't all down to the actors. 

In 1915 "Birth of a nation" was released and immediately caused heated debate about the meaning of it with racism and discrimination being accused of being shown in the film. Despite this it was a break through in terms of editing because it featured camera shots such as panoramic shot, long shot and still shot. 

The Kuleshov effect was discovered  by a soviet director called Lev Kuleshov. The effect was a montage effect that Lev believed the audience would respond more to. 

Before long, analog editing and digital editing made an appearance. Analog was slower and used before computers. The film negative was cut down and pasted into order. Digital editing was much quicker as it was on a computer, Footage is put onto a timetable and is then cut down  and is then pasted into order and then the effects are put in.

Since then, editing has greatly improved with advanced effects, high tech camera ability's and greater options for props. Special effects and sound effects have transformed editing with the ability to add almost anything via effects and sound effects bringing the ability to add any sound that's needed at any point.