Pioneers of Editing

Produce a mini documentary about a pioneer of editing. Your documentary should contain video and still footage from the internet. However all verbal and written text should be your own - be careful not to plagiarize. Use the Voice over recording facility to narrate your mini doc.

Part 1
Explain the contribution to the history of editing, that the following two editors made.

1. Edwin S. Porter
2. D.W Griffiths

Part 2
Select a film editor from the following list:

1. Alfred Hitchcock
2. Martin Scorsese
3. Quentin Tarantino
4. Jean Luc Goddard
5. Walter Murch
6. Thelma Schoonmaker

Now cover the following points in your documentary: 
• What are they most famous for?
• What was the importance of the technique they developed?
• What key films did they work on and what editing techniques were used?
• Who else has been influenced/used this technique in their films?
• How have they influenced film making?

Part 3
Analyse a clip from a film they have worked on in terms of editing techniques, consider the following: narrative, rhythmn, pacing,juxtaposition, shot variation, manipulation of diegetic time and space, Storytelling (engaging the viewer, providing and withholding information, development of drama, relationship to genre, creating pace. Combination of shots,180 degree rule, continuity, montage, point of view shot; shot-reverse-shot.

Summarise your main points.