Orpen, Valerie. Film editing: The art of the expressive. Vol. 16. Wallflower Press, 2003.
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In the chapter, ‘Continuity editing in Hollywood’, Orpen takes a deeper look at what seamless/ invisible/continuity editing actually is, and what purpose it tends to serve in modern hollywood cinema. Orpen looks also at the history of this style of editing, noting it’s growth from newsreels to fictional film. She addresses and highlights rules of cinema that allow for this editing to work in post-production. In subsequent chapters, Orpen tests her proposition that continuity editing is inherently unoriginal and no longer foster’s creativity in a filmic sense due to it’s natural presence in most of the fiction the western world is viewing. She provides examples of two different films that can testify to either argument.
This book is well written, and kept simple. Orpen does a fantastic job of not over-complicating a subject matter that is actually fairly banal and often over-analysed. The book provides history, reasoning and analytical debate on the actualities of continuity editing.
In the chapter, ‘Continuity editing in Hollywood’, Orpen takes a deeper look at what seamless/ invisible/continuity editing actually is, and what purpose it tends to serve in modern hollywood cinema. Orpen looks also at the history of this style of editing, noting it’s growth from newsreels to fictional film. She addresses and highlights rules of cinema that allow for this editing to work in post-production. In subsequent chapters, Orpen tests her proposition that continuity editing is inherently unoriginal and no longer foster’s creativity in a filmic sense due to it’s natural presence in most of the fiction the western world is viewing. She provides examples of two different films that can testify to either argument.
This book is well written, and kept simple. Orpen does a fantastic job of not over-complicating a subject matter that is actually fairly banal and often over-analysed. The book provides history, reasoning and analytical debate on the actualities of continuity editing.