Film Studies Daily Log

Wednesday, March 4

We continued our discussion of The Cutting Edge, with all students contributing comments from their notes. Then Colby described the recent film Memento, which uses radically discontinuous editing to reflect the mental state of its central character and we contrasted the film as described with the classic (a la D.W. Griffith) editing goal of seamless continuity.

We briefly reviewed the concept of parallel editing, also known as cross-cutting, and watched the famous chase over the ice floes from Griffith's Way Down East as an example.

Tomorrow: Birth of a Nation.