Task Two: In-Camera Editing

In-Camera Editing is a linear editing technique where you would film scenes chronologically in a film by starting and stopping the camera then by moving the camera to film another scene in the film and start/stop the camera again, this technique is used frequently in early cinema and is still in use from modern movies today
In-Camera Editing was the only way of editing in early cinema as the technology wasn't advanced enough to begin non-linear editing and was the only way to begin filming for cinema at the time.




In our in-camera editing short film we would use the camera by starting and stopping to edit different scenes together. We would begin by having one character enter the scene then we would stop the camera move the camera to a new position to carry on the scene from a new perspective, we would have one character speak their lines then stop recording and switch to a new character speaking and would repeat till the scene has finished.

The Pros of In-Camera Editing is that there is no 'real' editing would be so filming would be quick and easy to do and wouldn't cost any extra apart from the equipment.

The Cons of this however is that if you were to mess up on camera while its recording that would mean that you would have to redo the scenes again because you can't edit it out on the camera. Another con would be that the screen on the camera is really small to looking at what your recording would be different when its the full screen. The sound recording on a camera is also very bad and recording the voices will be difficult and will pick up background noise, you will not even be able to check the audio after recording.