Editing + Narrative

Everything that is done in media is to create meaning. Editing is when you change the narrative in a clip to create meaning.
We watched a video clip - Super size me
and was told to write down the structure of what happens in the clip.

Although this is what I thought had happened, It may have not. The clip has been edited by ellipses these are used these to make the audience fill in the blanks. We haven't actually seen the man be sick but heard noises and then a shot of sick on the floor, suggesting to us he was sick. However this may not have happened at all, the sick could have been already there or they even made a mixture to look like sick and just edited the clip to make it look like he was. 

Editing constructs a narrative out of footage. You can put different pieces of footages together to manipulate the situation so audience see's what you want them to see. You can take multiple clips from the same film and change the narrative to give  different interpretations and perspectives. Media in all can manipulate the way you think.