Weekly diary of work for ‘Design for Animation, narrative structure and film language’.
Always remember that editing should be invisible to the eye. Editing is about making it easier for the audience to read the story, so keep in mind that the audience also needs to be taken into consideration in editing. In addition, editing should be determined by different kind of the shooting scenes. For example, more editing is required for the fight scenes, while less editing maybe better for the lyrical scenes, in order to make the audience feel that they are participants. Animators should always remember that the audience is part of the film, and they can feel the characters’ feeling in the film.
Pay attention to screen direction to avoid confusing the audience.
As The success of Disney has inspired many imitators, I did a research on how Disney’s editing mode impacted the animation industry.
And here is the link to it: Week 2: The animation studios/animators who imitated Disney’s hyperreal animation aesthetic in their editing.
Note
3 Golden Rules of editing
- •Editing should remain invisible to the eye, only the effect is to be experienced – the best cut is the one you do not see
- •The storyteller should never let the audience get ahead of them – less is more
- •The audience has to be a participant, not just a spectator
Continuity
- Graphic relations
- Rhythmic relations
- Spatial relations
- Temporal relations
Continuity Editing
- Spatial continuity
- Temporal continuity