~ Analogue Editing ~

Here we have Analogue Editing.  

                     Analogue was a technique of editing, before the world was introduced to digital editing. This editing was done by hand, it wasn't done using any high tech equipment or software. When filming a film with analogue, you would have a copy of the positive film all together what you had filmed. You could cut one part of the film and stick it together to make a cutaway effect on the sequence. They did this by using a slicer and cutting it in different parts and placing them together in the order the film maker wanted them. With this technique; analogue editing, it had to be all put through a machine. The machine was called either a Moviola or K.E.M. You would feed the  film into the machine so it could e used and played as a completed film. Lots of directors each year are using digital instead of analogue, being digital is more fast pace, and can be done at a more quicker pace then doing all the editing by hand physically and not on a computer. Analogue editing call be also known as linear editing.

   The advantages of using Analogue is that it has a more accurate showing of sound. Meaning on a film that used analogue editing, the sound may have a better quality than digital, so you get a perfect sound to the film. Being as their is limitations to editing using analogue, you mostly hear the original sound. The technique analogue is all by hand, not by computer that could easily add on different sounds from the original or manipulate it.

   But the disadvantages of analogue are that the quality is easily lost being it is not used on computers. There is limitations to editing, being you cannot fade a scene or use a special effect from one scene to the other, being no computer software to be able to achieve that. Tapes are becoming out of date and hard to find, meaning analogue is dying out, needing tape to be able to film the sequence onto and accomplish this editing technique.

       The purpose of Analogue editing is storytelling. Used in the early years to create a sequence of a film by taking film and putting them together into a sequence by hand. It may be a slow process using this technique, being you have to do the editing physically, cutting the film and putting them together, it still tells a story when put correctly in the right order. Usually having to film each scene in the order the narrative is, as no computer editing could be used to film on a camera any scenes in any order, and put them in order at the end in the editing process using a software.  It also can be motivation to the editor, knowing he has to be precise and patient when using analogue editing, as one mistake, you would have to do the whole filming again, as you cannot get rid of the mistakes you do on positive or negative film. That is why analogue editing is time consuming, there is no room for mistakes like digitally, once you make a mistake, you can fail the film and destroy the whole sequence and good order. It also helps the pace of the film. Using analogue editing, you need to film each scene in the order the film is, so the narrative is correct and the pace runs smoothly. So the audience watching does not get confused as each scene will be in the correct order using this technique. So they understand the narrative and can enjoy the film knowing exactly what  going on.

     An example is one of the first films ever made, which used analogue editing. Being in 1895; called Exiting the Factory. There wasn't any other editing technique to use at this time, so analogue editing was used. Watching the clip, if you look carefully. You can see it has been cut with a blade to be stuck together in the right order, and give a slight cut effect. This technique is very time consuming, being this film would of took months alone to edit and make. Having the editor or director having to cut each part of the film exactly where each scene ends, if they did this wrong, they would be at risk of having to film the whole film again. The editing gives a clear view to the audience at the time what is going on throughout the scene and film.

  

Also A Trip To The Moon; released in 1902. Uses analogue editing. These films would of took longer to make then present films today. Being all the editing was by hand, if you wanted to cut one scene from the other, you would have to use a slicer to cut the  film precisely  and put it in the sequence where you wanted it. This is a popular film by the well known film maker at the time; Georges Melies. The film uses simple cuts from each scene, as at that time, different cuts like fades and swipes had not really been introduced to the film industry. It gives the audience a clear understand what is happening in each scene as the pace of the film flows.