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Using montage and parallel editing to manipulate time and ideas

Using montage and parallel editing to manipulate time and ideas - Media Composer Tutorial

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Using montage and parallel editing to manipulate time and ideas

As you're working to build an effective narrative for your documentary, you will inevitably need to figure out ways to both compress and expand time, both for logistical reasons--like to fit a lot of information in a short period of time-- and also to engage the audience in more exciting ways. Now as you do this it's also nice to be able to combine different ideas and make that work for your film. Now there are a few ways you can tackle time and idea manipulation. Here we're going to take a look at two, Montage editing and Parallel editing. Now in the last movie we took a look at Process Footage editing, which is basically editing with continuity, where we see a task that is actually not filmed in real time, but we present it as if it were. So here we have our guy wrapping the herbs and here we have him in close up and then we cut out to him in a medium shot and then a long shot and everything is matched on action. So we have him basically holding the herbs like so, in both of these…

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