Editing

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The definition of edit is to "remove unnecessary or inappropriate material from a text, film, or radio or television programme".

The term editing is used to describe the process of removing scenes this is done so the scenes flow better, make more sense and overall have positives effects on the whole experience of the media piece and improve continuity.

Editing has changed across the years starting out as having to cut and then places scenes into the section of the film you wanted them to be, due to technological advances this way of editing has now become obsolete.

Speed of editing
This refers to how long a scene or frame lasts for this can vary from seconds, minutes or even hours, the change in duration of scenes can be used in a variety of ways for example short fast paced scenes are usually used in action scenes and a variety of different genres, the horror genre often heavily relies on short scenes and fast editing to make the audience jump, although long durations of scenes are used to show emotion and often emphasise on certain facial expression or aspects of the scene to make the audience emphasise and build up empathy between the audience and the characters within the media piece.

Style of editing 
Style of editing is extremely important within media, the wrong editing can completely destroy scenes and make them alot less powerful, the right editing can enhance scenes making them more terrifying, intense and emotional, overall a much better experience for the audience and the makes the end result look more professional.

Dissolve 
A dissolve is probably the least used form of transition this is where the scene evaporates into another scene in a sort of grainy way, it looks like the pixels sort of melt away whilst being replaced by the pixels from the next scene.

Straight cut
A straight cut is the most used form of transition within films and TV series and is also the fastest way to change from scene to scene, the scene immediately cuts to another scene.

Fades
A fade is when the scene usually goes black or white and the transparency of the black or white scene increases until the next scene is on screen.

Jump cut
The camera changes angles whilst the scene is still on screen, this is used to confuse the audience or make the audience focus on a certain character or object.