Codified roughly a hundred years ago by American and Russian filmmakers, the so-called "rules" of cinema are still in use today, but there is an alternative to the conventional wisdom about how to ground an audience in the physical space of your film. This video essay describes the technique known as "constructive editing," and we'll look at how you can use it in your next project (and how doing so might save you some cash).
The most common form of editing in narrative film today is analytic editing, which tends to start a scene by situating the viewer in physical space (usually by means of a long shot, or its equivalent). Then, once the audience is oriented, closer shots are employed, shots that "analyze" the filmic space. We see this technique deployed in almost every narrative movie, because, well, it works.
from No Film School http://ift.tt/1UViZsB
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