Editing in the Doc Martin clip

Types of editing

Cuts: No transition, just cutting from one shot to another.

Eye Line Match: To look at what a character is looking at or to see who is talking and what the focus is on.

Action Match: When one bit of action is followed by another bit of action.

The Clip

Within the clip there is mainly straight forward cuts used, this shows the stress that doc is feeling as it can speed up the pace of a clip and the quickness illustrates stress and how the movement has to be fast pace, especially when the sink breaks.

When someone is speaking a lot of eye line shots are used as they show us who is involved in a conversation and who is focusing on who talking.

Like here, we can assume that the country worker is explaining something to Doc as previously Doc was stressing over the sink breaking. 

There are also 2 eye line matches with the dog. once when Doc is deciding what to do with him, anda gain when the he arrives at the police station when Doc has dropped him off. This shows that the focus is now on the dog and he is the most important issue in the room at that time. 

An action match is used when Doc is going into the police station. Firstly we see him turn the door handle, and then the shot is followed by him walking into the police station, this just makes it more realistic as if we didn't see him walk through we would wonder why we didnt. It makes the scene flow better. 

We again know the clip takes place in a laid back quiet area because we find the police offer hoovering, meaning he has nothing else to do as there is no crime which makes it have a laid back vibe. We again learn that it is a laid back area when Doc creates a prescription in the street, this lets us know that there is no real trouble ver where this programme takes place. 

We know that the show is in an old village in the country because the old school shown near the end is old, unlike a school in a town which is usually modernised. We also know its a village because of the lack of cars shown on the street, this is very unlike a town as it shows that the place is not busy.