Pearson BTEC Level 3 National Extended Diploma in Creative Digital Media

Production

Unit(s): 21: Film Editing

Assignment Details Contents

Title: Unit 21: Film Editing Unit introduction
Assessors: Kevin Ward A wide range of editing techniques and conventions
School: Media, Multimedia & have been developed to create meaning in film
Performing Arts sequences. Such techniques are used to engage the
Programme level: 3 Assignment viewer and keep their interest by following the
number: 2 action, moving the narrative forward, or eliciting an
Issue date: 09/02/21 Interim emotional response.
hand-in (if
applicable): In this unit, you will learn about the development of
Feedback: Due: different editing purposes, conventions and
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editing have used editing techniques and how
IV: IV date: they have developed more sophisticated applications.
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You will develop skills in digital editing
techniques and create a final, edited sequence for a
specific purpose. The skills you will develop in this unit
can be applied to edited sequences for a range of
different purposes, and the sequence you produce for
this unit can form part of a digital portfolio of work for
progression to employment or higher education.

Outcomes:

In this unit you will:

B: Explore the use of editing tools, techniques and conventions for a specific purpose
C: Create a digitally edited sequence for a specific purpose.
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Scenario
(P3, P4, P5, M2, M3, M4, D2) Assignment 2 – B: Explore the use of editing tools,
techniques and conventions for a specific purpose

(P6, M5, D3) Assignment 2 - C: Create a digitally edited sequence for a specific purpose.

Your first job in the role of editor in an independent studio is to develop ideas for a
dramatic edited sequence to be used within the pilot for a new drama series.
Developing from your initial ideas you should create experimental edits for a title
sequence and key narrative scenes from the drama. From these you will need to develop
a finished three-minute trailer for the pilot show.

Tasks Pass Criteria

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Task 1: P3.P4.P5.M2.M3.M4.D2 P1.M1.D1

Ideas generation for edited sequences To achieve each outcome a learner

must demonstrate the ability to:
Develop an ideas generation portfolio for the pilot
of the new drama, this must include multiple ideas P3: Appropriately select and use
which will make use of both continuity and non- digital editing tools to create test
continuity techniques for different purposes within sequences in response to a brief.
sequences.
P4: Apply appropriate continuity
You must use appropriate documentation to editing techniques and conventions
document your ideas, such as: within a test sequence in response
● mind maps to a brief.
● thumbnails
● storyboards P5: Apply appropriate non-
● marked up scripts continuity editing techniques and
conventions within a test sequence
You must clearly show the intended purpose of in response to a brief.
your ideas and the editing techniques they will
employ before experimenting with techniques to M2: Effectively select and use digital
create edited test sequences. editing tools to create test
sequences in response to a brief
Experiment with digital editing techniques to showing technical competence.
create test sequences
M3: Effectively experiment with
You must develop your ideas into at least two continuity editing techniques and
complete test sequences for a title sequence and conventions to generate test
key narrative scenes from drama, using both sequences in response to a brief.
continuity and non-continuity editing.

You must experiment with a wide range of tools, M4: Effectively experiment with
techniques and conventions. non-continuity editing techniques
and conventions to generate test
You must produce a written, digital or video log sequences in response to a brief.
showing how you have experimented with a wide
range of tools and techniques to develop your test D2: Consistently demonstrate an
sequences. individual, creative approach and
accomplished technical skills when
using editing techniques and tools
to develop different ideas for an
Checklist of evidence required
edited sequence for a specific
Evidence of how you have used both continuity and purpose.
non-continuity editing techniques to develop test
sequences for a title sequence and key narrative
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scenes from the drama, which create a feeling of

suspense or paranoia by using different tools,
techniques and conventions.
 An annotated ideas development portfolio
including initial ideas and experimentation.
 A minimum of two developed ideas for
edited sequences using both continuity and
non-continuity editing techniques.
 A written, digital or video log

Tasks Pass Criteria

Task 2: P6.M5.D3 P1.M1.D1

Developing your original test sequences, you must To achieve each outcome a learner
produce a technically and creatively accomplished must demonstrate the ability to:
final edited sequence to be used as the trailer for
the new drama. P6: Apply appropriate editing
techniques to produce a final edited
Your sequence should be 2 minute in length. sequence for a specific media
purpose.
You need to refine the edited sequence from rough
cut to final cut and export it in a suitable format for M5: Apply effective editing
HDTV use. techniques to produce a final edited
sequence that meets the intended
To evidence professional practice you must keep a purpose.
production log including:

● a schedule
● information relating to asset management D3: Produce a technically and
● evidence of the editing stages creatively accomplished final edited
● justification of the impact of your influences sequence that fully meets the
● justification of the editing techniques and intended purpose, justifying the
conventions you used choices made throughout.

You must use the log to evaluate how the creative

and technical choices you have made throughout
the editing process have been successful in
fulfilling the purpose of the brief.
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Checklist of evidence required

● Final edited trailer exported in a
suitable format for HDTV use.
● A written, digital or video production
log.

Further Guidance

Textbooks
● Chandler, G., Film Editing: Great Cuts Every Filmmaker and Movie Lover
Must Know, Michael Wiese Productions, 2009, ISBN: 978-1932907629
● Dancyger, K., The Technique of Film and Video Editing, Routledge, 2010,
ISBN: 978-0240813974
● Historical and contemporary review of the aesthetic principles of editing
Videos
The following videos are useful to show early and more contemporary uses of editing
techniques for discussion.
●Battleship Potemkin: The Complete Odessa Steps Sequence, documents an early
use of montage https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=laJ_1P-Py2k
●Way Down East - DW Griffith, Early Example of Parallel editing
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lI2e3pXat54
●Example of Parallel Editing in "The Silence of the Lambs" (1991) -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ts1x6uADFtM
●Rocky III Training montage https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4soF2wigKSM
●Team America - spoof montage explains the use of montage well, though the lyrics
may not be appropriate for younger audiences. https://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=fhWiTORp22k

The following videos are useful to explain and illustrate techniques.

● Moviemaking Techniques - The 180 Degree Rule
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HdyyuqmCW14
● Tech Tip - Cutting on Motion/Match Cutting
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=59PjgIjImEk
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● Video Editing and Shot Techniques: Study of jump cuts, match cuts and cutaways
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ONMSe_zhq70

Websites
 http://www.elementsofcinema.com/editing/elements_of_editing.html
Student guide to fundamentals of editing development.
 http://www.premiumbeat.com/blog/4-iconic-editing-techniques/
Examples of the use of cutting and montage techniques.
 http://www.premiumbeat.com/blog/15-premiere-pro-tutorials-every-video-editor-
watch/
Basic video tutorials for use with Premiere Pro.

* Revisit class presentations/PowerPoints on Teams.