Week 11 -Pudovkin's 5 Editing Techniques and Elliptical Editing

 Pudovkin's 5 editing techniques were created to get specific reaction from the audience, something he calls relational editing.

 Contrast: cutting between two different scenarios to highlight the contrast between them. This is shown in the Godfather where he has ordered his men to kill members of rival gangs while it cuts back and forth between him at a baptism. The Godfather

Parallelism: connect two scenes by matching features of the scene.  It creates an association in the viewers mind. Example 'Strangers on a train' by Alfred Hitchcock

 Symbolism: creates a symbolic connection for the audience.The plughole turning into the eye symbolises life going down the drain 'Psycho' 

 Simultaneity: also known as cross cutting is cutting between two simultaneous events for suspense. This extending of time builds anticipation. Silence of the lambs

 Leit motif: This is when music is linked to a person, place or thing and so when that music is played the audience thinks of that relationship. For example in Star Wars - The Imperial March and Indiana Jones

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 Elliptical Editing

- To condense time and prevent the audience from seeing something unimportant

- Skip over details (e.g journeys from one place to another) example Batman

- Seen in most films and TV programmes - reducing the duration - example Vaga Bond

- Artistic philosophy to this; an audience is left to imagine what the film maker chooses not to show.



However some artists have done the complete opposite and made it work. An example of this is 'Stray Dogs' by Tsia Ming Liang.