Planning Editing Styles
Editing:
Editors job is to organise the footage and arrange individual shot combining them into one continuous sequence. Every scene has dozens of different shots that have to be chosen and assemble from all of the film. The editor's choices about which shots to use and the order in which place them, have a profound effect on the appearance of the overall film.
Why is editing important?
Editors job is to organise the footage and arrange individual shot combining them into one continuous sequence. Every scene has dozens of different shots that have to be chosen and assemble from all of the film. The editor's choices about which shots to use and the order in which place them, have a profound effect on the appearance of the overall film.
Editing is important because it creates a coherence and continuity to a film. Editing is where you take the best camera shots and arrange them accordingly to create the story-line. It also prevents miscommunication between scenes. Editing is also known as the 'invisible art' because if it is done well, viewers are so engaged in the film they are unaware of the editors work.
What types of editing styles will you include in your thriller and why?
We have decided to use a number of different editing styles in our thriller film to help build suspense, surprise and shock to the audience.
- Fast Editing - We have decided to use fast editing in our thriller film because it can show a large amount of information within a couple of seconds. By using the fast editing it will highlight straight away to the audience who the stalker and the victim is. It straight away creates an enigma of who the stalker is and why he is burning a picture of the girl. We also decided to use fast editing to create a chaotic atmosphere which is conventional to the thriller genre.
- Eye line match - We decided to use eye line match as part of our editing to show the audience what the stalker is looking at. It also make the audience see everything from his perspective almost like its them watching the victim behind not the character themselves.
- Dissolve cut/Flashback - We are going to use this style of editing to show the audience a flash back of what happened to the victim after she woke up in the dark room.
How will your editing styles make your thriller conventional?
Fast editing will make my thriller film conventional because it is at a fast speed. The quicker that pase of the film the increase of anxiety the audience will feel. It is also conventional because it enables us to introduce the stalker without showing his identity. This create an enigma and everything thriller film starts of with an unanswered question.
The eye line match is conventional because it makes the audience see the victim through the stalkers point of view. It allows them to build a relationship with the character which makes the audience empathise for the victim.
The dissolve cut is conventional to the thriller genre as it reveals what happened to the victim and answers how she got in that predicament in the first place. A dissolve cut allows the audience to see the disorientaiton and confusion the victim is expreience as if it is answering the audiences question of what happened.
Fast editing will make my thriller film conventional because it is at a fast speed. The quicker that pase of the film the increase of anxiety the audience will feel. It is also conventional because it enables us to introduce the stalker without showing his identity. This create an enigma and everything thriller film starts of with an unanswered question.
The eye line match is conventional because it makes the audience see the victim through the stalkers point of view. It allows them to build a relationship with the character which makes the audience empathise for the victim.
The dissolve cut is conventional to the thriller genre as it reveals what happened to the victim and answers how she got in that predicament in the first place. A dissolve cut allows the audience to see the disorientaiton and confusion the victim is expreience as if it is answering the audiences question of what happened.
You have made a start in explaining some of the editing styles that you would like to include within your production, which shows some evidence of planning.
ReplyDeleteTo make this post more detailed, you need to refer to more detailed examples from your narrative on how your production is conventional to a thriller