The skill of film and television editing

Film and television editing, as an integral part of the art of film and television, is in the process of the development of film and television came into being, independently appeared and perfected; at the same time, the progress of the art of editing, but also greatly influence and promote the improvement and development of the art of film and television. Here's a look at it!

Briefly summarized, the essence of film and television editing is to complete the montage image shaping through the decomposition and combination of the main action; the task of editing is mainly the following five aspects:

1) Selection of editing materials;

2) the development of editing programs;

3) to determine the means of editing;

4) the choice of editing points;

< p> 5) grasp the tone of editing.

The task of film and television editing is heavy, correct, reasonable, smart editing, can enhance the artistic expression of film and television film and infectious, the success of film and television film has a significant impact on the success of the film and television film, therefore, the editing staff must strive to improve the level of film and television editing skills in order to effectively and successfully complete the task of artistic creation undertaken.

Generally speaking, film and television editing skills, that is, the artistic means of editing, processing techniques, montage methods, which is the most important part of the art of editing, comprehensively speaking, the so-called film and television editing skills, in fact, including editing technology and editing means two major parts, specifically, from the following aspects of the study.

1, film and television editing technology

Film and television editing technology, mainly refers to the editing process, operating procedures and lens connection. Film editors should know the identification and maintenance of film, equipment identification and use, lens identification and connection, lens classification and storage; understand the positive film, negative film process, film production process; grasp the method of film, roll film, sound and picture synchronization method, the lens of the `choose and connect the method and so on. Television editors, on the other hand, should know the identification and safekeeping of the tape, the identification and use of the machine, the identification and connection of the footage; understand the process of editing and de-editing at one time, the process of television production; master the methods of grouping and inserting, the method of sound stabbing up and dragging down, the method of silent insertion of the picture, the method of selecting and connecting footage, and so on. Although these are very technical specific techniques, but they are the basic skills of editing, must be skillfully and comprehensively mastered.

2, film and television editing

Film and television editing means that the narrow definition of the editing skills are diverse, each with its own function, each with its own unique features. Commonly used editing techniques, classification, there are some of the following:

1) picture processing: split cut multiple uses, repeated insertion method, transplantation borrowing method, digging frame omission method splicing extension method; 2) action processing: action decomposition method, action increase or decrease method, action illusion method;

3) emotional processing: lens length extension method, short shot jump cut method;

(4) paragraph processing: shift adjustment method, add, delete and streamline the method, "stay frame" pause method, "additional skills" (TV called "stunts", refers to the picture additional hidden, visible, chemical, scratch,

5) sound processing: the sound of the deletion of digging, string change shift method, the dialogue of the flat cut the same method, the dialogue of the string cut the dislocation method, the music of the splicing of digging and cutting method, the sound of the special configuration method.

For the above means of film and television editing, this article to no picture additional skills of editing as an example for additional explanation. No picture additional skills, that is, the whole film does not use any picture skills to structure the entire film and television, but the use of the lens image directly cut out, cut into the method of articulation lens, connecting the scene, the conversion of space and time, so that the entire film and television to no skill editing method for structural processing. This method, generally known as the modern approach (as opposed to the traditional picture additional skills of editing), usually called "jump cut". "Cut", short for "switch", is the most basic type of film and television technology, it is the most basic type of lens transition, it refers to the use of any optical techniques such as hidden, visible, chemical, scratch, overlay, etc. as a transition, but directly from a shot to another shot or from a scene to another scene. A scene to another scene. The "jump cut" is a kind of "cut", it can not take into account the general switch to follow the time and space and the continuity of the action, but with the action of jumping group to highlight, emphasize the content of the expression, so as to omit the process of time and space. Of course, the jump cut is not arbitrary, it must comply with the logic of life and adapt to the audience to appreciate the psychological coherence.

3, skilled in film, television editing differences

In terms of editing skills, film and television are basically the same. However, due to the differences between movies and television, there is a natural difference in editing. This difference shows the respective strengths and weaknesses of movie editing and television editing. Recognize this difference, master this difference, for the understanding and use of film and television editing skills is essential. The difference between movie and TV editing is mainly reflected in the following aspects:

1) Movie film editing is the image of "intuitive editing", visible, tangible, character action, scene action, camera action at a glance, the operation is convenient, processing science; TV tape editing is the image of the "sensory editing". The movie sound editing is the "direct feeling editing" of sound and image, which is tangible, highly accurate, scientific multi-channel mixing recording, and perfect auditory image; the TV sound editing is the "feeling editing", which is untouchable, invisible, and based on the direct feeling of the editing staff on the sound, the sound synthesis is simpler, and the auditory image is poorer;

3) The editing of the movie pre-recording is rigorous and fine. Due to the limitations of film, it is impossible to film a song, a dance, an opera from start to finish, but in a tape on the sub-shot to a single shot shooting method, a full range of embodiment, but the production is more difficult; TV pre-recorded editing is not subject to the limitations of the tape, a song, a dance, a piece of opera can be recorded from start to finish and then inserted into a variety of different scenes of the camera, easy to produce, fast results. The production is simple and quick, but often the details are not fine enough, which brings a lot of inconvenience to the later editing;

4) The movie screen additional skills and subtitle production limitations, complexity and difficulty; TV screen additional skills and subtitle production is simple and scientific, and the quality is high.

In summary, these means, techniques and skills proposed in the article are unique to film and television editing. Editors must strive to familiarize themselves with, learn, master, and practice these basic skills in order to achieve a reasonable, precise, skilled, and creative editing work. As an editor, the skills to master the more diverse and more skillful the better; but at the same time, we can not just show off skills, because the use of any skills must be subject to the overall concept of film and television creation and artistic requirements.