Editing and transition.

In class we learnt about different editing types, and different transitions that  are used to give a certain affect that the audience can pick up on to allow them, for example, understand what the character is thinking.

Editing is a crucial part of film language as it structures the narrative and links scenes and events together. It follows a logical, time order to allow  the audience to understand what is going on, but can be distorted in order to hint at flashbacks.

Editing skills that can be used are: cut, cutting on action, cut away, jump cut, cross cutting, matched cut, action or composition, verbal matched cut, cutting rate, cutting rhythm, buffer. 

All  edits are used for a reason, eg, abrupt ending would be used to emphasis shock, or disturbance of a character.
We also learnt about different transitions- fade in / out dissolve, smash cut- abrubt, iris- lens is closing down, wipe, invisible cut- can't tell there has been a cut, whip pan- moving out of scene and in to another, L cut-dialogue gets quieter or louder and carries on in to the next scene, J cut- audio playing before you see the scene, and combinations.