Exploring Relationships Between Film Editing Techniques, Style, Narrative, and Audience Experience

Abstract

As a core element of cinematic expression, film editing has evolved from early technical operations to an essential artistic practice, closely intertwined with film styles, narrative needs, and audience aesthetics since the birth of cinema. Against this backdrop, this study focuses on exploring the relationships between film editing techniques, style, narrative, and audience experience. The research centers on three interrelated dimensions: the influence of film styles on the selection of editing techniques, the role of editing in shaping narrative structures, and the shaping of audience experience by the artistic functions of editing. Adopting an analytical approach, it examines the artistic logic of editing techniques through these three perspectives, with support from specific film cases. The findings reveal that distinct film styles, driven by their unique artistic pursuits, determine the underlying logic for selecting editing techniques. Additionally, editing directly affects the audience’s emotional engagement and reception effects by regulating narrative rhythm and reconstructing time and space This research clarifies the mediating role of editing among "style-narrative-audience," providing a theoretical reference for film creation and interpretation.