History and Development of editing
Editing is the process of using footage and using it to combine shots into sequences. Film editing used to require you to physically cut the film and then put it together with a separate image to create a cut to the next shot which created a transition in-between the two shots, but editing film is much easier now due to technology and digital cameras and computer software. Transitions are used in the post-production process of editing and it is where scenes are merged together, the most common transition is a cut which is where the scene instantly moves to the next shot which can be used for many different editing techniques, dissolve transitions can be used when a character in a film may be having a flashback and wipe transitions are used to portray time passing. This scene from Hot Fuzz has lots of cuts between different camera angles to show how intense the scene is, the music in the background is also very intense sounding which matches the scene, in the scene at 1:17, there ...