MASTER EDITS IN VARIOUS FILMS

The first master edit I noticed was simultaneity, in "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2". This was a scene where Harry pushed Voldemort off of a building. I feel that this represents simultaneity because in one shot it shows Harry and Voldemort fighting and wrestling, and the other in what's going on on the "outside", which is the black smoke flying around. It is showing the same event, just from two different perspectives. This is the cutting between two simultaneous events, which as a result drives up the suspense.

The second master edit I noticed was symbolism, also from "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2". The first shot shows the stairway with nobody on it, and a completely empty and quiet room. The scene then briefly shows students marching into the school, then cuts back to the same stairway, just from a different angle. Also, there are now students on it marching down as a man watches them. This shows symbolism because it shows empty stairs, then the children walking on them. It shows that something important is about to happen, which indeed it did, moments later in the film Harry Potter battled Voldemort on the stairs. 

The third master edit was leitmotif. In another scene from "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2", Professor McGonagall battles Snape. There is very quiet, almost no music playing, then once she throws him out the window and puts the lights back on, the students cheer and the theme plays. This theme usually plays at a moment of relief, or joy. This is considered a leitmotif because it shows a recurrent musical theme associated with a person and a moment.

The fourth master edit was contrast. In "Diary of a Wimpy Kid", there is a scene where Greg Heffley is performing in a school musical, with his mom, dad, little brother, and older brother Rodrick watching. The scene cuts back and forth a few times from Greg singing seriously, too Rodrick laughing at him and making faces from the audience. This shows two things happening at the same time, but different emotions are felt from it. When you watch Greg you can see he is concentrated and a little embarrassed, but when you look at Rodrick you see him laughing and making jokes.

The fifth and final master edit was parallelism. In Alfred Hitchcock's "Strangers on a Train", the opening scene shows a very clear example of the parallelism editing technique. The first shot is of a man helping another man with his luggage. It then shows the ONLY the man's shoes as he walks out of and away from the car. The next shot is the same exact sequence of events and type of camera shot/angle, just a different location and different men/shoes and luggage.