I edited those two frames together because the motion trajectory of the first rotating picture resembles the second frame.
Every movie the audience sees has been edited. Whether it is a fictional image, a realistic shooting, or a virtual combination, almost all mobile heroes have been cut, rearranged, and spliced, a series of editing processes. (Pearlman, Karen said that editing is like choreography. The editor shapes the movement trajectory between shots, scenes, sequences, and movement transition between images. page28).
However, many editors say editing by feeling; Bill Pankow said it’s intuitive. “have a sense” (Donn Cambern). “you just know” (Sidney). (cutting rhythms, page1) (Christopher J. Bowen and Roy Thompson, 2009) said The Better the Edit, the Less It Is Noticed. This is the ideal situation. Eisenstein said that there are many different elements in the lens, including performance, composition, texture, color, shape, lens size, motion energy, direction, etc. The editor is to adjust the proportion of these elements to attract the audience. I support Eisenstein’s point of view. The audience sees the performance and interaction in the film convey emotions and arouse emotional resonance. The flow of emotions will not self-shape. The editor edits it. When the audience experiences it, the audience is Experience editing. This essay will analyze two examples from Pixar’s movie animation to support that editing conveys emotions, energy, and stories to the audience through the audience’s visual, auditory, and perceptual elements.
Up is a successful animated film. The protagonist is Carl, an old widower, had to take the little boy Russel, who goes off on an adventure in his flying house in search of Paradise Falls, his wife’s dream destination. So the story between Carl and his wife Ellie, editor Using montage editing techniques, the audience can understand the story of Carl and his wife in a short time. So that the audience and Carl can reach empathy and understand that even if Carl is on crutches, he has to realize his wife’s dream.
From the visual point of view, the editing colors of this group of shots range from cold to warm, forming a contrast. The camera with the meaning of time gives the audience clues, allowing the audience to naturally accept the setting of the passage of time. In this clip, the picture alone is not enough to make the viewer naturally think of the little girl and the little boy getting married when they grow up. So there is a line here, the little girl said I like you to the little boy at night.
From the perspective of the character’s vision, the little girl’s hair color, the little boy’s iconic glasses and face shape all give the audience the message that the married character is a little boy and a little girl after they grow up. The girl’s appearance has changed a lot, so the characters’ movements have been added to show the girl’s lively personality. This is a bit similar to the rhythm of the audience’s experience in real life. For example, people with optimistic characters are mostly happy. This kind of use of the audience’s usual life experience rhythm, so that the audience can feel the emotion and confidence conveyed by the film without thinking, is carefully designed and arranged by the editor.
From the story’s perspective, the little girl is a lively character; the little boy is a steady character. At the wedding scene, the little girl’s family is very enthusiastic, the little boy’s family is very calm, two different family atmospheres cultivated heroes and heroines with opposite personalities. This is also similar to the rhythm of life that the audience usually experiences.
In terms of voice, there are no other lines except the little girl saying, you know, you don’t talk too much, I like you. The music rhythm is used throughout to match the storyline and pictures. The sound of the broken blue balloon is used as a signal to the audience. The following picture is a camera that spans more than ten years. To let the audience understand the story, the sound of the camera flash is used as a link to the previous picture. Similar sounds allow the audience to link the front and back images subconsciously.
From the perspective of sound rhythm, the sound rhythm of the little boy and little girl’s night is slow, almost nothing. When it comes to the scene of the married couple, the music is very cheerful. The camera is transferred to the lively hostess’s family, which is still very cheerful music. The next shot was given to the male protagonist’s family, and the voice returned to a steady voice to meet the calm feeling of the male protagonist’s family. This kind of editing design is more than just matching the picture. There is a perfect rhythm arrangement from a fragment with long and short rhythms, just like the sound rhythm experienced by the audience in real life.
From the perspective of the lens, the first picture is from the long shot, the second picture is the waist shot of the little boy, the third is the close-up shot of the camera, the fourth is back to the waist shot, and the fifth and sixth picture is the long shot. Editors don’t just focus on one frame; the editor shapes the movement trajectory between images, scenes, and sequences. Let the audience experience a rhythmic picture.
From the perspective of picture time, the approximate duration of the picture, the first picture lasted 3 seconds, the second picture lasted 5 seconds, the third picture lasted 2 seconds, the fourth picture lasted 4 seconds, and the fifth picture lasted 2 Seconds, the sixth one lasted for 2 seconds. It has a rhythm and allows the audience to understand the story with a large span in a short period of time, using the editing technique of montage.
The above analyzes one of the up segments from vision, hearing, story, lines, etc., which proves that sound editing is like breathing. It uses the rhythm of people living in the world. The editor imitates this rhythm to arouse humans. The state of emotional resonance and adding clues to various elements, such as adding I like you in the line, give the audience a hint and make the audience look forward to the following plot.