Editting

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Film Editing

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Film Editing - The Godfather

The 1972 film The Godfather directed by Francis Ford Coppolla based on the novel by Mario Puzo that takes one inside the world of the Mafia as shown in the Corleone family where its patriarch , Don Vito is the Godfather ' but later , the focus of the film would later on shift to his son Michael who at first was not part of the Mafia family , but later on gradually joined it until he became the Godfather . The rise

of Michael Corleone from being a civilian ' to Godfather is made possible by a well-coordinated cinematography which also involves editing Editing is a film technique where reels of film are subjected to cut and paste ' in to weave the scenes into a seamless sequences of events that unfold the moment it hits the silver screen . In this film the producers make use the continuous editing technique . This approach is employed for the purpose of maintaining continuous or clear narrative action

It begins with the scene when Michael arrives at his sister Connie 's wedding reception which is presided by their father Don Vito . This scene shows that Michael is not part of the other family ' his father leads as depicted by him dressed in a military uniform which showed he came from the war . The next scene would be the attempted hit (murder ) of Don Vito in the market and a separate scene where Michael 's older brother Sonny...