Class Editing Workshop

This curricular unit takes on themes developed in the first year of the course, particularly the disciplines Principles of Post-Production and Audiovisual and Cinematographic Creation Workshop I: Film Language and Narrative. In these disciplines, the technical bases of the editing process and the language of cinema are taught. Here we develop, in a laboratory environment, the practical and artistic application of the narrative potential intrinsic to film editing.

The conceptual and artistic component is developed from the editing processes associated with film language and the visual construction of narratives. There will be a particular focus on creative processes that we can identify in contemporary serialized content and advertising.

The discipline is associated with projects developed in Audiovisual and Cinematographic Creation Workshop III: Serialized Content and Production Workshop for Platforms III: Advertising.

1. Film Editing - Editing applied to fiction series.
1.1 - Technical and creative team relationships.
1.2 - Stages of the editing process.
1.3 - Editing decisions.
1.4 - Script and editing.
1.5 - Narrative structures in serialised models.
1.6 - Scene, shot / reverse shot, parallel and alternate editing.
1.7 - Transitions between episodes.
1.8 - "Recaps".
1.9 - Multi-camera editing.
2 - Film editing - Between cinema and series, stylistic resources.
3 - Film Editing - Editing applied to Advertising.
3.1 - Advertising styles.
3.2 - Types of advertising spots.
3.3 - Advertising and continuity.
3.4 - Short formats and narrative and stylistic efficiency.

Expository and project-oriented teaching methodology with strong articulation between the involvement of students in the project development process and the application of the theoretical concepts taught.

The evaluation model is oriented to the evaluation of the ability to acquire skills and not to the intrinsic quality of the projects developed.

The final grade combines the editing process developed in the transversal project associated with the discipline Audiovisual and Cinematographic Creation Workshop III: Serialized Content, the editing work developed in the associated transversal project to the discipline Production Workshop for Platforms III: Advertising, and a set of editing exercises developed in the classroom.

Dancyger, Ken (2002) – The Technique of Film and Video Editing, Focal Press, Usa.

Crittenden, Roger (1995) Film and Video Editing, Routledge.

Murch, Walter (2001) In the Blink of an Eye: A Perspective on Film Editing, Siman-James Press.

Pudovkin, Vsevolod (1961) Argumento e Realização, Arcádia.

Reisz, Karel; Millar, Gavin, (2010) The Technique of Film Editing (2nd Edition), Focal Press.