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Determine the Speed at Which Events Move Along
At the simplest level, editing determines the pace, and so the mood, of a film in three different ways:
The editor determines the duration of a shot. Generally, the longer the shot duration, the slower the pace.
The editor can decide what goes in or out of a sequence. In Lawrence of Arabia (Great Britain, 1962), in one of the most famous cuts in British filmmaking, instead of showing T. E. Lawrence travel from his safe office in Cairo to the desert, we see him extinguish a match in that office, cutting immediately from a close-up of the match light in a cramped office to the gloriously epic establishing shot of the desert and the desert sun.
The kind of edit between shots determines speed. The slow dissolve can leave us lingering on a disappearing image for several seconds (for example, the last shot of Psycho [1960], when Norman Bates's face slowly becomes superimposed on the skull of his mother). Or the cuts between shots can be very quick: Gunfights at the O.K. Corral tend to cut very quickly between the various participants so that you won't lose a bit of the bloodbath.
Read more: Movies and Film: The Purposes of Editing | Infoplease.com http://www.infoplease.com/cig/movies-flicks-film/purposes-editing.html#ixzz2dX32mWhW
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