Genre Editing and relation to classwork

What have you learned about genre editing conventions?
I have learnt a lot about genre editing in class such as I learnt about the rule of six a theory created by Walter Murch, he believed these six rules should be at the top of an editors list when working.
The six rules were:

1. Emotion
2. Story
3. Rhythm
4. Eye-Trace (directing the audiences attention to details in the scene)
5. Two dimensional plane of screen (relation of objects to each other e.g Cups on a coffee table)
6. Three-dimensional space of action (how the actors/objects relate to each other in the space)

Many people would follow this theory as Walter Murch was the editor of really successful films such as The Godfather III and Apocalypse Now. Using his theory would make aspiring editors work successful.

I also learnt a lot about editing techniques, such as action match, cross cutting, continuity editing, cutaways, Eye-line match, montage editing, slow motion, parallel editing. These are all extremely good editing techniques used to express the genre of films. I learnt that some editing techniques are conventions of a specific genre, such as many horror films use the editing technique of montage editing to cram in a lot of narrative and also to build tension as a lot of short takes are shown in a quick amount of time making the audience feel urgency. All techniques create an emotion for the audience, it makes the audience react to the editing  and actually feel as if they are involved in the film.

How will this analysis of editing techniques influence my creative choices in your classwork?
I can use these different types of editing techniques in my classwork such as when I'm creating a storyboard I can write the different editing skills I will use in the take. I can use it in my own opening sequence such as the conventional montage editing technique as I am creating a horror opening sequence. Good editing will make my opening sequence better and I can get a higher grade if I successfully use editing techniques to engage the audience and make it more exciting and interesting.