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Editing a movie can be referred to as tailoring a movie. Just as people don't
want to wear ill-fitting clothes, similarly no viewer is ready to see an
unedited movie. An unedited movie is not compact, brief or tight, so it does not
lure the spectators. The art of editing a movie means arrangement of shots
according to an understandable viewpoint so that the viewers can derive
aesthetic pleasure.
In cinema, generally two techniques are followed, viz.,
mise-en-scene and montage. Mise-en-scene refers to the composition part of movie
making or in other words, whatever is being shot with the single switch-on of
the camera till the single switch-off of the camera. Whereas, the editing style
and technique are known as montage.
Some years ago, editing a movie was a
difficult as well as a lengthy task when the films were shot in celluloid. Edit
actually means 'cut' and the editors sliced the unwanted strip from the master
roll and used to paste all the perfect shots into one. However, a duplicate of
the master, known as dupe print, is used for all the experimentation. The
viewable celluloid is prepared through such a rigorous process.
This was the
time of linear editing. However, computers have provided the scope of non-linear
editing. It is generally known that when the movie is shot, it is much more
lengthily than what we actually see in the cinema hall. The unedited footage is
known as 'rush'.