In one of my lessons last week we learnt about editing. I learnt that editing is a critical part of film language. It can be used for a multitude of things such as linking scenes/events together. In addition it is a very time consuming process to edit picese of work, for it to be edited well it the editing needs to be unnoticeable by the audience. The audience will never really appreciate the time and effort which is put into editing.

Cuts can be used to:
- Change scene
- Compress time
- Vary the point of view
- Montage, build up an image or idea

Cuts can be used to to change location or to show who is talking to who e.g. The 180 rule. Editors can also play around with the tempo of the cuts to create tension, this is very effective when used in conjunction of a playlist to match, and maybe use of extreme close ups on people's eyes to intensify their emotions.

Continuity is a key factor which is looked at when editing. You need to ensure that everything looks like one continuous scene or location. It's very important to make the audience believe that a scene is filmed in one place in one day to make it look effortless and create a sense of a time scale. Continuity also allows you to compress time as you wouldn't want to show every little bit of someone's like like brushing their teeth and their hair, this would lose the attraction of the audience.

Another technique I learnt about is called the rule of thirds, this is where you draw a grid and the main action happened in the 4 crosses which are created. It's very rear that it will happen in the centre as that's not how you see life, it happened a in the four crosses as it makes it more realistic.