Questions an editor should ask themselves while cutting a scene

Today in Kylie's lesson, she set us up into pairs in order to complete this task. Me and Elesha worked together and we had to write down questions an editor should ask themselves while they are cutting a scene.

Here's a list of the questions that we came up with:

1. Am I telling the story from the right point of view?
2. How does the scene impact the plot? If I cut, would it matter?
3. What's the goal, the intense? What's the main plot?
4. Do I help provide context for my readers?
5. What does this bring to the story?
6. Emotions What’s the mood of the scene? Thinking of audience response.

After coming up with few questions, Kylie showed us what she had written down:

Question List 

1. What is the emotional tone of the scene? Would it be appropriate to the emotion of the scene to cut now?

2. Does this cut advance the story? Add new relevant information?

3. Is the pace of the cut appropriate for the rhythm? Is this rhythm interesting?

4. What is the audience focal point? Do I need to match movement in the frame?

5. Is the eye line or stage line of the characters on screen correct to cut with the next /previous shot?

6. Does the cut reflect the three dimensional space? Does it provide a correct sense of perspective within the location?

Our next task was then to pick a scene from any film we wanted to and screenshot, write down then explain to the class why we think the editor has cut to this point, why they done this etc.

We chosen to watch Jurassic World and the scene I chose to show in front of the class is the end scene of the fight of the T-Rex and I-Rex. The reason I have chose the scene because I find it amazing to watch and the editing done on it is brilliant and there's loads to talk about on why they have done that.

Here is the shots we screenshotted and what we wrote about them and told the class.

I enjoyed this lesson today as it helped me think more for when I come to editing my films.