Journey - Elliptical editing

Elliptical editing journey from Group Fifteen on Vimeo.


We filmed a short journey to demonstrate elliptical editing which is a technique that we may use in our film.
Elliptical editing involves cutting out unnecessary parts of a sequence to shorten the length and only show the parts that are interesting, for example in our sequence the person starts off on the fourth floor and after walking down two flights of stairs is on the second floor. In real time she would be on the third floor however by cutting out part of her journey from one destination to another it allows the audience to see where she is going and how she gets there without them having to watch 10 minutes of footage. Instead the journey only lasts 18 seconds. We may use this in our film when the characters are travelling from the shop to Charlie's house as it will shorten the sequence in order to fit it into the film and also only show the interesting parts that the audience need to see.