Without editing, everything you watched would be boring and repetitive.
Editing helps construct a narrative. Editing is so commonly used that we don't recognise it. Editing is normally invisible. Editing can be used to condense long, boring activities into quick bursts of visual information. The simplest edit is the cut. It is called this because in old-fashioned filmmaking, they found the best bits of footage and spliced them one after the other.
In the assassination scene in 'North by Northwest', after Roger Thornhill gets out of the car and enters the United Nations building, there are 26 edits. They are most frequent when Thornhill and Mr Townsend are talking.
In Alfred Hitchcock's 'Psycho', the pace of the editing in the shower scene when Marion is killed is fast to create tension and excitement. However, after her death, the editing becomes slower.
- Dissolve - One scene dissolves into another, overlapping for a moment.
- Fade in/Fade out - One scene fades out to black completely, then another fades in.
- Wipes - One scene wipes across the screen, revealing or replacing the next one. This can happen in any direction.
- Iris - The next scene replaces the last by appearing from the centre like the iris of an eye.
- Jump Cuts - Two scenes that feature a common element right after one another, so something stays the same
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