Week 3: The Language of Film and Editing

In order to create good film, one should implement the principles of editing:

• Editing merges a chain of shots and scenes into a complete film
• Each edit ends one shot and begins another.
• This usually applies after the film has been completed.

Editing helps to place one shot next to another, create narrative progression, provide additional detail, provide the best possible view of action. 

Also, there exist 3 Golden Rules of editing:

1. Editing should remain invisible to the eye of the viewer 
2. The storyteller should never let the audience guess what happens next
3. The audience has to be a participant, not just a spectator