Editing Rhythm

Editing rhythm of shorts keeps a storyline easy to keep track of and pleasant to watch, a viewer should be able to follow the story easily and relax. It keeps a steady pace throughout the film. Rhythm within a film is detirmined by the length of shots usually, it there is average length shots it will just be average and part of the story, if the rhythm speeds up and the shots are smaller length it can lead to emotion such as suspense if they are edited correctly.

Having a bad rhythm can annoy and distract the audience and lead them to lose track of what is happening in the film so its important that film editors do it correctly, and make it easily watchable and build the story bit by bit


Here is a good example, it creates a nice pace for the film, and it is easily followable for the audience, the editing maintains a good steady pace and speeds up at the times it needs to.