The Purpose of Editing

Editing is one of the most important aspects of film making. The purpose of editing your footage is so you can tell a story and engage the viewers. By editing one sequence, you can create a million different stories, depending on the way the footage has been edited. You can change the tempo, speed, brightness and add certain transitions this can allow you to create anything you want from the sequence you have. You could probably imagine that without editing movies would be pretty dull, in the past movies weren't edited properly sometimes not even edited at all so it was the same camera angle with no transitions or effects, imagine how boring that was? Well, even although they are considered masterpieces and paved the way for the modern classics we watch now, they were boring! But this allowed us to advance and progress and now modern editing has helped bring the viewer closer to the film and allowed so much more room for creativity. Now you can understand the purpose of editing and why it's so important in film making.