Format is chosen by

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Format is chosen by

• Target Audience
• Behavioral objectives
• Mode of distribution
• Budget

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3 Basic Editing Styles

• Continuity Cutting
• Parallel Action
• Montage

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Continuity Cutting

• Matching Of Consecutive scenes and Shots in order
  to tell a story, educate, inform , or instruct.
• Linear in Time and Space
• Each edit follows an implicit order
• Shot order is dictated by the content
• Logical flow of ideas from beginning to end
• Technically, shots should match.

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Educational and informational programs

• Usually linear
• Steps in a procedure must be clearly followed
  through selection of camera angle, close ups,
  establishing shots, and shot order
• Simple

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Teaching programs involving intangible ideas and
theories are usually linear

• Where is the audience going to look next?
• Does the cut take you naturally where audience
  wants to go?

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Dramatic programs

• Sequences which are linear in order to tell a
  story with a beginning, middle and end.

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Parallel Action

• Cutting between two or more events, places,
  people, or time periods in order to compare,
  contrast or connect.
• Non-linear in time and space
• Used to increase tension when two actions will
  come together in dramatic climax
• Use to make comparisons or depict contrast
  between people, products, methods, events, old
  V.s new, etc.
• Technically shots dont need to match

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Montage

• A series of shots, quickly edited, which convey a
  single idea, theme, or impression

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Utilitarian Montage

• A series of disconnected images which are related
  to a final result.
• News stories

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Compressed Time Montage

• A series of images which proceed from time a to
  time z quickly

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Dramatic Montage

• A series of scripted images which tell a story

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Impressionistic/ Associative Montage

• A series of images related by the feeling or mood
  they convey

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Compilation Montage

• A series of images that summarize and capture a
  number of events