Editing Techniques.

As editing is an important part of any movie trailer knowing some of the techniques used in the media industry is key. This will help me to gain a more realistic feel to my trailer.

The 180 degree rule: The imaginary line that passes from side to side through the actors. We should not be able to see past that line as it confuses the audiences as they see the characters from different points of the scenic.

Parallel Editing: Cross cutting between two or more lines of action going on in different locations of scenes. This is similar to what a trailer does with montage editing. I believe that this could be a new way of editing my trailer. I will do some more research and experiment with this method.

Matching Eyelines: An edit that follows the 180 degree rule, in which the first shot shows a person looking in one direction and the second shows the space containing what a person sees. This is a good technique for my opening shot where we see the drug dealer looking at a certain point in the car park. I will then switch to see what the drug dealer is looking at.

Match on Action: An edit that puts two different shots of the same action together making it appear to continue uninterrupted. This is a good technique and i believe brings a bit of originality and though to a production.

Shot, Reverse, Shot: Two shots edited back and forward between two characters. This could be used for the face off scene where we see two characters interacting with each other. It might be abit unusual to have this in a trailer but i will have to experiment different ideas.

All of these techniques are use full and will play some role in my trailer. Even if they do not work they will be mentioned in my rejected ideas.