Film Studies 1022 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Barton Maclane, Dashiell Hammett, Peter Bogdanovich
25 Jan 2017
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Screenplay: john huston, based on the novel by dashiell hammett. Week 9 editing and the continuity system. You see so many movies the younger people who are coming from mtv or who are coming from commercials and there"s no sense of film grammar. There"s no real sense of how to tell a story visually. It"s just cut, cut, cut, cut, cut, you know, which is pretty easy. Today"s hollywood movie typically contains between 1000 and 2000 shots; an action movie can have 3000 or more. Editing decisions can also build the film"s overall form. Huge number of choices for filmmakers introduction to editing. Editing: (1) in filmmaking, the task of selecting and joining camera takes. (2) in the finished film, the set of techniques that governs relations among shots (501) Editing lets the filmmaker decide what shots to include and how they will be arranged. An editor on the typical feature-length film is faced with a mountain of footage.
