ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses the existence of certain units or divisions of film and television programs that constitute areas of reference for scene design and visual composition. Importantly, they also help to fragment storylines so that these can easily be reconstructed during the subsequent editing stage. Stories are created and shot according to a theatrical structure made up of scenes—which can be complex in themselves, with many camera angles—that are broken up for filming purposes. Editing involves the assembly of different fragments of image and sound that are to make up a film or video. The first phase consists of filtering out any defective material. The second stage of editing—ordering—consists of determining the exact placement of each of the selected shots within the sequence. The third and last stage of the creative process of editing is to determine the exact time that each selected and ordered shot should be seen by the viewer on the screen.
