HISTART 2901 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Al Pacino, Continuity Editing

• School: Ohio State University
• Department: History of Art
• Course: HISTART 2901
• Professor: Steven Hunt

Document Summary

The silent era and the development of narrative form: 1913-1925. Basic principles of style for narrative cinema after griffith. Dramatic action consists of scenes--we discussed this upon viewing a trip to the moon. A director must decide how to break it up into distinct units/moments. These shots are then assembled to present the scene in this well-thought-out way. Purpose of securing the continuity of action: cross-cutting/intercutting/parallel editing, griffith was the first to use this, but directors of course use this today, e. g. The godfather, where al pacino attends the baptism of a child, but crosscutting occurs to show concurrent events where his henchmen are in the parlance of offing his gangster enemies. The insert shot/cut-in: e. g. those scenes of puppies and babies from the battle at. Elderbush gulch (1913)--film would not have had the same effect without insert shots: same goes for the gay shoe clerk, where porter first introduced us to the insert shot.