Video Essays and Tutorials - Post-Production

Strange Continuity: Why Our Brains Don't Explode at Film Cuts

From Aeon Videos. For millennia, we’d never seen anything like film cuts. How do we process them so easily? Before the emergence and rapid proliferation of film editing at the dawn of the 20th century, humans had never been exposed to anything quite like film cuts: quick flashes of images as people, objects and entire settings changed in an instant.

Editing in Storytelling

FURTHER READING AND RESEARCH:
M. Ondaatje (2004) The Conversations: Walter Murch and the Art of Editing Film
W. Murch (2001) In The Blink of an Eye
C.J. Bowen, R. Thompson (2009) Grammar of The Cut
S. Eisenstein (1969) Film Sense

David Lean's Scene Transitions

The Royal Ocean Film Society examines the work of David Lean and see what unique ways we can find of cutting picture and sound together to make transitions really shine.

Further Reading-
Kristin Thompson on match cuts- bit.ly/1x960Em

Shoot Like an Editor

7 tips from Caleb Pike on how to shoot with the edit process in mind, getting the shots and the organization that will make your editor love you

How to Make Your Own LUT to Match Footage From Two Different Cameras

A LUT (Look Up Table) is a pre-set color setting that is applied to quickly change the color properties of any RAW or LOG footage shot on the RED camera or the Sony F3 or F5.

Download LUT Generator

Pudovkin's 5 Editing Techniques

Evan Richards gives a brief look at some of Vsevolod Pudovkin's theories on editing as well as some examples from more recent movies.

If you're interested in reading some of Pudovkin's writings, his book "Film technique and Film acting: The Cinema Writings of V.I. Pudovkin" is available for free in PDF, Kindle, or EPUB format.

MATCH CUT: The Art of Cinematic Technique from Celia Gómez

A video essay that shows the use of match cut to join two different scenes through a matching object or motion, and how it has been effectively employed in films throughout the ages.

List of films included here

The Art of Slow Motion in Cinema

A Video Essay on the use of slow-motion in feature films.