The Editing Process

Editing, it take place in both production and postproduction, which include selecting, combining and trimming the sound and visual images. The main purposes of editing are to condense time, direct attention, and to create new meaning. Besides that, editing also create rhythm and visual interest, and trying to cheat the audience. In the editing process, there are divided in four parts. First, the editing stages which divided into two, the preliminary and final editing. Second is about the editing systems, which are linear or non-linear. After that, the editing move on to next part, the editing modes, is that fiction or non-fiction. The last process is the editing language, which includes the footage, transitions, sound and sound effect, and

The editing is composing space and time; it might be real time which the time as we measure by clock, which also the film’s running time. For the subjective time is the inner sense of duration that created by engagement and intensity. Then the phenomenological time is shifts in our mind, to remembrance of past or anticipation of future. The last one, narrative time, mostly are memories and imitations, it shows the time elapsed from the beginning to the end of a movie, hours or years. Flashback also included, presenting the past. Footage is the exposed film created, result of all activities, raw material, camera or sound recorder. A take, is a single uninterrupted or unedited run of camera. In one shot, it can have many takes. The outtakes, they are unused segments of takes, which including the clap-per-loader’s slate, unused frames that are not needed in the film. A take-out ratio is the ratio of exposed footage, including out-takes; the dailies/ rushes are the best take that had been selected. In a shot, is being select and edited takes used in the film. It is same as a “take” and it consist of master shot and insert shot. For the scene, it is the spliced shots of single continuous action and the succession of shots. The sequence is the spliced scenes which can be a brief single shot, or many shots, that making up a significant visual or dramatic unit and also dramatic point. Next, transitions s a dramatic relationship between separate units which lets audience assembles the displayed subject. It also used to avoid confusing audience. If the editor used it clumsily, will seem overly obvious, that can distract the audience from the film. There are some basic examples of transitions common are used, cuts, dissolve, fade and wipe. Last, the special effect, which constructed by photographed effects which created by makeup, differentiated scale, or