Introduction to editing (The Gloaming)

Introduction to editing

The Gloaming

What is editing?

Editing is a process of selecting into different shots, and joining them together to make a story.

What is Eliptical Editing?

Eliptical Editing- it allows us to fill in the gaps, moves the story on more quickly, it takes up less actual time on screen.

Why are long shots used?

The choice of a long shot is used to remind us where she is and tells us she is alone.

What is ‘non-diagetic sound’?

The sounds in this shot are dripping water and birdcalls are part of the natural world around her. But after a while we begin to hear something else. A note of music playing underneath the sounds of nature this is called Non-diagetic sound. The music isn’t actually playing there at the lake, the character can’t hear it but crucially the viewer can.

How do we know she is bending down to pick up the ring? (What shots are used and why?)

Then the character looks down and to the right of the frame, As she bends down, we cut to the ring buried in the grass, and because this shot follows the previous one of her looking down, we fill in the gaps and make the connection that the ring is what she's looking at. The director could instead have chosen a longer uninterrupted shot in which we saw her bending down all the way. But cutting the two images together of the girl and the ring is a quicker way of making the same point.

Evaluation (Playing with Time)


In this short film of The Gloaming see a couple who were just married and flashes back to a long shot scence where she is looking straight into the camera and flashes back to her husband on where he asking her to go on a ride him. She bends down and saw a ring buried down as she bend down the camera cuts to the ring and to her face to know that the ring is hers. It then shows a scene where she is sitting next to the camp fire burning a piece of paper remembering her husband. She then went inside the caravan and saw something underneath the blanket which she thought it was her husband sleeping, but she decides to check who's underneath the blanket she saw a skull of a dead person and it scared her to death.