A Film Experience Chapter Summary

The book I selected to do a chapter review on is A Film Experience written by Timothy Corrigan and Patricia White. The book is based off of filmography and the different things films focus on. The chapter that I have selected to do a summary on is the fourth chapter called “related images” and it is over different shots and editing part of film. The reason of why I chose the editing chapter is because it was the section that popped out to me most. The definition of editing is the process that links different images or shots to make it with a continuous flow without cutting. Many people consider editing as the most unique dimension of the film experience. One of the first people to start using editing was Eadweard Muy-bridge’s in 1877. The experiment

The Birth of Nation film used crosscutting to promote identifications with the white characters of the film. Crosscutting is to switch from one scene to another to show action going on at the same time. Another film that did a great job of editing was Man with a Movie Camera. Lots of people mention that the film does a good job with stopping the film then jumping right to action. The start to all the editing was the cut. There are many different ways to cut from one scene to another. Fade-outs is a cut that flows from going to one scene to fading away slowing and losing color, and a fade-in is the opposite. A dissolve is overlapping two shots to make it flow smoothly. When dissolve is used it allows for a constant flow from shot to shot or even to represent a change in location. In narrative films the use of editing is to keep things in order. When editors try to minimize the pause between two shots it’s called invisible editing. An establishing shot is a long shot that allows the viewer of a film to get an understanding of the scene of a film. When an established shot is used it’s to get the location and background of the whole shot. When a conversation is going on between two characters it is called two