In the year 1900 Directors began playing around with the idea of stopping the camera and then rolling in different locations continuously. Three years later in 1903 The first modern editor was Edwin Porter and he believed that cutting separate shots could make a story. His first film was The Great Train Robbery. This is effective to the audience so that the audience can see how the character does this action. 20 years later in 1923 Walt Disney animation studios the studio had produced the very famous fairy-tale story Snow White and the seven dwarfs.
In 1925 Sergei Eisenstein was a legendary auteur and had a cinematic storytelling technique of montages (film editing). This was first seen in the film Battleship. His ideas are often stolen and put into other films. 35 years down the line in 1960 the famous Alfred Hitchcock another film editor had edited the film Psycho which in the first 47 minutes from when the film started. The film used fast cut editing of 78 pieces of film and a 45 second impressionistic montage sequence involving the inter cutting of slow motion and regular speed. one year later in 1961 the famous Jean Luc Godard edited the film Breathless and the techniques they liked to use was French New Waves style, and took things from popular cultures. He used innovative use of jump cuts and breaking eye line match in continuity editing.
Dede Allen in 1963 had edited the film Bonnie and Clyde with different opposing moods and shifts in tone. It exemplifies many characteristics of film making from French New Wave movement of it’s time. One of the most shocking scenes from this film was Ballet or Blood” finale this scene was edited with multiple cameras shooting at different speeds. In 1999 Andy and Larry Wachowski edited the famous film The Matrix this film became a smash hit which included fighting and stunt sequences with difficult editing. 16 years later in the year 2015 technology had advanced and nowadays we can do different things with editing software for example CGI to make things look better and realistic for example Rob Cohen uses this in the film Fast and Furious. This is effective because it gets people more excited when they see something different to what they may usually see in a day to day life therefore this gives the audience escapism.
