What makes a good edit?

- the beat of the music is in time with the cuts in the film
- colour scheme or the temperature of the lighting has huge impact and emotional significance
- choice of sound sets the mood but also works to tell and enhance the story line
- types of edit that create impact include dissolves, cross dissolve, fade in, fade out, fade to black and fade to white, wash in and wash out.
- graphics: editing images; you can crop footage, you can overlay footage, and fade it through the layer, cutting out back grounds and replacing them with other layers (chroma keying), you can adjust the colour, you can layer photos on top of footage.

"Command T" to cut footage.

Creative Media

Cinematography
- lighting
- camera angles

Mise en scene
- props
- style of acting

Editing
- rhythm (beat of film)
- passing of time (rate at which the film operates)
- graphic relationships; jump cuts: shortens events, match cut: tim's gun