Seamless and Contunity

                                              Seamless

                       This refers to an editing style that is a classic Hollywood contunity editing. The aims of seamless is that the mechanics of editing should be invisible to the viewer and to the point that they will not notice it when they are focusing on the story of the film. With the editing it should be very good and well done with its style that the audience should not focus and notice it and focus more on the action of the story. The editing must make the story more interesting that the audience will focus on that rather than the editing which shows how good the editing is. This can also reply to all of the elements of mise-en-scene as an error with one of the elements can effect the entire scene as it will be noticed by audiences when it should not. The mise-en-scene should be presented perfectly in each frame in order for audiences not to find any error as this is known as contunity error as it does not match the scene. So invisible editing and making no mistakes with mise-en-scene as it refers to the term Seamless.

                                    Continuity

180 degree rule

180 degree rule example

Combining shots into sequances

  This is one of the key roles that an editor must take on board in order to make the film successful with its camera shots. So an editor would piece each shots and put it into a sequence giving the shots an order which is part of how the script tell the story. The editor would put in sound as well as other editorial techniques that would be needed in the scene which would be part of the sequence. There are two types of sequences that are put into the shots which are continuity editing and montage editing. Continuity editing is where the story is told with successful shots and there are no errors in the shots that would ruin the sequence. Montage editing is where there is a sequence that challenges the audience to think about a connection between both he shots and the sequence which makes the story.

Creating motivation

An editor would create motivation with the shots that would help drive the narrative forward with each shot of a character or a situation that would motivate the next shot and then that would motivate the next shot making it continues. With an action scene that  occurs, this  would cause a subsequent shot to happen and  from this the subsequent shot would  motivate the narrative to go on. This also gets audiences motivated to see what the next shot would be especially during action scenes.

Development of Drama

The develops the drama by putting in certain techniques with both the characters and shots which help to develop the drama. This creates tension and causes the audience to be involved with the drama as this is what the editor does.

One of the techniques that an editor does to develop the drama is External conflict and this is where the story narrative would have an encounter with the protagonist and antagonist which gives a dramatic need to the scene for the protagonist to win and for the protagonist to lose which can give suspense to the scene towards the audience and also the audience would get tense towards the scene.

Another way that the editor uses to challenge the audience and to get them to think about the narrative is to withhold information from the audience which is key to the story of drama. Also by withholding information can be about characters by having a mysterious character that's face is not shown. This challenges the audience to guess at who the character could be which helps engage them with the story. Cross cutting is a technique that the editor uses as another way of withholding information as there would be an action but then would cut to another scene leaving the audience to wanting to know what is happening on the previous actions scene.

There is also another type of conflict that the editor uses for the characters which develops the drama even more which is internal conflict. This sort of conflict concentrates more on the protagonist having a conflict with himself her herself over a touch choice that the protagonist would need to make. So in scenes such as that the editor would use close ups on the protagonist to show how there feeling with their body language which gives an understanding towards the audience.

With developing a drama the editor would have to make scenes that would relate to other scenes that has happened before and after that scene. So the editor would use tense and suspense scenes which would relate to each of the scenes the editor has done.

Subtext is very important and the editor uses this with camera shots of the character expressing how they really feel through the way they act and the way they say towards other characters.