Eye trace: Where is the viewer’s focus on the screen? It shouldn’t have to travel too far from one shot to the next.ĥ. Story: Are you advancing the story in a meaningful way?Ĥ. Emotion: How do you want the audience to feel?Ģ. When you begin editing, consider each of the following (in descending order of importance):ġ. Oscar-winning editor Walter Murch, known for Apocalypse Now and The English Patient, came up with six rules for cutting film. “The Kuleshov Effect,” as it came to be known, demonstrates the power an editor can wield. Kuleshov’s audience thought the man’s expression changed with each juxtaposition - first hungry, then sad, then romantic - but the footage of the man was always the same. In the 1910s, Soviet filmmaker Lev Kuleshov demonstrated this phenomenon by juxtaposing the image of a man with three other, alternating images: a bowl of soup, a child in a coffin, and a woman on a divan. If you create a montage (a sequence of different images), your audience will infer a relationship between the images. The human brain constantly seeks narrative.
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