Editing and narrative

Editing and Narrative

Editing is used in most things in media such as magazines, television and films, the role of editing is to create meaning for the audience. Editing takes place in post production. You can edit many different things in media such as time by making it longer or shorter - even cutting certain scenes out and putting them back in before or late after it even happened. Another example of features to edit is the camera shots because in films the audience will generally see the camera cut from one scene or character by either using a wipe effect, a simple jump or  dissolve. Depending on which one the editor decides to use it will create different meanings to each scene. In some horror film a jump will be used to create tension so the audience know when something scary is going to happen. another way of editing is when there are blank spots in the film or if the screen goes black and it says for example "20 minutes later". this technique is called an elipses which give the effect of allowing the audience to fill in the blanks on what they assume will happen during that time period. Editing constructs a narrative out of footage.