THE EARLY HISTORY OF EDITING

What do you notice about early filmmakers in regards to editing? What similarities did you notice between early filmmakers and the mobile films that your classmates have made?

Many of the early films were from a single angle. The camera didn't move at all. We didn't choose many different angles but instead told the story with one simple angle. In some early films they didn't even get all the actors in the shot. Similarly, in our films we might have cut a few ears and shoulders out of the shot. Also, we chose to use old filters, which were normal back then, in our films.