Ken Dancyger Editing Analysis

Looking at ken Dancyger: The Technique of Film Video editing history and practice the author explains the evolution of editing from the earliest two wheelers in 1895 via breakthrough Artists like DW Griffiths and Russian Directors such as Sergei Eisenstein. Through a series of practical experiments film developed its own language. A mentionable fact about that in 30 years the basic of editing were formed. Components we see today as essential for editing for example continuity and screen direction were not even looked for. The camera never moved and was often far away from the actual scene. There was a stronger focus on Performance than tempo.

Important year for Porters work 1903 he started to incorporate visual continuity, causing amore rounded/dynamic film. “Porter proved that the shot was the basic building …show more content…
The camera would track into the window while you hear muffled sounds of struggle from inside. Interior bedroom Close up woman’s terrified face, fist enters from the right hitting her in the face. Cut to woman collapsed on the floor man towering over her. He proceeds to leave the room, looks back smiles slams door. Cut to woman sobbing into her knees. Time passes cut to laptop receiving a message. Cut to woman reacting positively she replies. The stranger and the woman agree to Skype for the first time. The conversation between the two would be shots of the woman talking to the screen and the stranger replying over Skype through video. She eventually realizes that the stranger with a mask is actually her husband due to a detail in the background. The husband leaves the Skype screen. Cut to the woman looking in fear at the door to her bedroom. Slow tracking shot as we hear the husband getting closer to the door. Cut door burst open. Cut to wide shot the husband walks closer to the woman he proceeds to hit her she falls to the floor out of shot. The man leans down and continues hitting