Chapter 4: Supporting Details
Lab Activity 19: Creating a Summary from Annotations
 
Objective
To create a summary after reading from annotations made during reading.

arrow.gif Step 2: Read the following passages, which continue from "The Edited Image" in the college textbook A Short Guide to Writing About Film.

Passage C

     When these shots describe significantly more action and more time and more than one location, the interwoven and unified group of shots or scenes that results is often called a sequence. In The Piano, the beach scene becomes part of a larger arrival sequence when Ada is met and led through the jungle to her future home; in Potemkin, the scenes that dramatize the sailors' mounting discontent make those scenes part of a complicated sequence leading to their rebellion.

—Corrigan, A Short Guide to Writing About Film, 3rd ed., p. 63

Identify each sentence as a main idea, a major supporting detail, or a minor supporting detail.


      11. When these shots describe significantly more action and more time and more than one location, the interwoven and unified group of shots or scenes that results is often called a sequence. 



      12. In The Piano, the beach scene becomes part of a larger arrival sequence when Ada is met and led through the jungle to her future home. 



      13. In Potemkin, the scenes that dramatize the sailors' mounting discontent make those scenes part of a complicated sequence leading to their rebellion. 



     

14. The definition of editing depends on whether it is being discussed in the simplest sense or in a broader sense. Simply put, editing is . 

     

 

     

 

     

 

      Passage D

     Most of us pay little conscious attention to editing because we know and enjoy most the continuity editing of classical cinema. This editing style is appropriately called invisible editing because the filmmaker, not wanting the editing to distract from the story, avoids cuts and transitions between images that would be too obvious. Through various means, the filmmaker attempts to hide the film editing so that we view the images as a continuous picture. Thus, even though The Maltese Falcon (1941) is a very carefully and stylishly edited movie—carefully balancing Sam Spade's entrances and exits and his keen method of noticing the details in a room—we view it as a continuous action in which obtrusive cuts would seem out of place.

—Corrigan, A Short Guide to Writing About Film, p. 63

Identify each sentence as the main idea, a major supporting detail, or a minor supporting detail.

18. Most of us pay little conscious attention to editing because we know and enjoy most the continuity editing of classical cinema. 



      19. This editing style is appropriately called invisible editing because the filmmaker, not wanting the editing to distract from the story, avoids cuts and transitions between images that would be too obvious. 



      20. Through various means, the filmmaker attempts to hide the film editing so that we view the images as a continuous picture. 



      21. Thus, even though The Maltese Falcon (1941) is a very carefully and stylishly edited movie—carefully balancing Sam Spade's entrances and exits and his keen method of noticing the details in a room—we view it as a continuous action in which obtrusive cuts would seem out of place. 



     

22. Invisible editing is also known as . 

     

 

     

 

     

 






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