Lumiere Brothers

Auguste and Louis Lumiere were brothers and invented the worlds first camera. They named it the Cinematograph and it’s 3 functions were to Record, Projecting and Printing. They produced the first public film which was shown on December 28th 1895.

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George Melies

• George Melies started the editing process which resulted in the films becoming 14minutes long using 1 minute reels.

Edwin.S.Porter

• First American to use video editing. He worked as en electrician and then switched careers for on in film, in which he joined the Thomas Alva Edison Film Labatory. This company designed the first motion camera and projector for the audience. ‘Life of an American fireman’ in 1903 was the first film.

D.W. Griffith

His editing turned out to be the opposite to what he intended no producing so this put the wrong message across to the public. David was the first person to cut up film to edit the footage. Unlike Sergie Einsenstein who cut up footage with purpose to produce propaganda and rearranged them in a certain style and technique to produce am organised film, Griffith did it with no purpose and just had clips rearranged with no specific purpose to it.

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D.W. Griffith

He introduced shot size, cutting on action, inter titles, reverse shots, cut away and flashbacks to the media industry. Films he produced are:

1. Judith of Bethulia 1913

2. The Birth of a Nation 1915

3. Intolerance 1916

4. Broken Blossoms 1919

Sergie EinsensteinSergie pioneered the montage sequence in films.

The way and manor in which he did it created a message for the audience and believed it would make a better and more exciting story. The idea of a montage is sequence of pictures whose total emotion effect is greater than the sum of its parts. Considered the father of the cinematic montage, he often used heavily edited sequences for emotional impact and historical propaganda.

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Sergie Einsenstein

He started the editing process physically cutting and pasting pieces of film together to form a long clip. Nowadays since this man, its become all done via computer.

David Fincher

Dave is known for producing dark, dull stylish thriller movies. He does this by editing the lighting and editing styles. Finchers films are always at the leading edge of film making due to his lighting and editing styles. David Fincher was the first person to use editing software and was the person who brought the process of technical editing and capturing to the world.

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'How editing styles have developed and changed over time'

Methods and techniques have become more technical and precise to what they were years ago. Years and years ago fast moving montage films were popular where as nowadays the camera angles and editing of the film are more important and have become a vital part of the process of creating a film.