Editing Concepts

Paper Code: 
24BMA412
Credits: 
03
Periods/week: 
03
Max. Marks: 
100.00
Objective: 

This course will enable the students to understand filmmaking and provide theoretical information and appreciation of cinematography in filmmaking.

 

Course Outcomes: 

Course

 

Learning outcome

(at course level)

Learning and teaching strategies

Assessment Strategies

Course Code

Course

  title

24BMA 412

Editing Concepts

(Theory)

 

The students will:

  1. Integrate art, types of editing and digital videos.
  2. Mind map aesthetic senses and evaluate elements of editing.
  3. Experiment and articulate editing skills using different software.
  4. Build variety of transition techniques.
  5. Compose pre-production editing elements.
  6. Contribute effectively in course-  specific interaction  

Approach in teaching:

Interactive Lectures, Discussions, reading assignments, Demonstrations, Group activities, Teaching using advanced audio video tools.

 

Learning activities for the students:

Self-learning assignments, Effective questions, Seminars, presentations, Giving tasks.

 

Assessment Strategies

Class tests, Semester end examinations, Quizzes, Solving problems in tutorials, Assignments, Presentations, Individual and group projects.

 

9.00

Introduction editing, The Art of Cinema, The Fundamentals of Editing, Types of Editing, linear & non liner editing, Digital video.

9.00

Six element of editing, Pace and Timing, Constructing Continuity, continuity editing, seamless editing, Montage sequences, Five types of editing.

9.00

Cut, Mix, fade, Element of cut, Element of Mix, Editing for the Genre – Action, Music video, Suspense, Horror etc.

9.00

Transition techniques, types of transitions- CUT, FADE, WIPE, IRIS, Cheat-cut, Crosscutting or Parallel Editing, Cut-in/Cut-Away, Jump-Cut, Shot/Reverse Shot, Superimposition.

9.00

Broadcasting techniques, Introduction to sound editing, recording sound, channels, sound effects, Sound editing, Diegetic & Non-diegetic, Direct & non-simultaneous sound, off-screen- on-screen sound.

ESSENTIAL READINGS: 
SUGGESTED TEXT BOOKS:
1. Steven D Katz, “Film Directing: Shot by Shot: Visualizing from Concept to Screen” Focal Press; 1 edition, 1991.
2. Walter Murch Silman- “In the Blink of an Eye” James Press, U.S.; Revised edition, 2001.
3.Roy Thompson, “Grammar-of-the-Edit” Focal Press, 2003.
REFERENCES: 
SUGGESTED REFERENCE BOOKS:
1.Maxim Jago, Adobe Premiere Pro CC Classroom in a Book, Pearson Education, 15 February, 2019
 
E-RESOURCES:
1.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jTCxUXGM6tc
 
REFERENCE JOURNALS:
1.https://digitalcommons.unomaha.edu/jrf/
Academic Year: 
2024-25
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