Planing editing styles (Miss Georgiou)

Editing

Why is editing important?

Editing is one of the vital aspects in the process of film production. In general, editing is done to provide coherence and continuity to a film. Through editing, shots are combined in accordance with the script to create finished movie. A shot must be short enough to fulfill the purpose. Editing also prevents miscommunication between scenes.

 

 

What type of editing styles will you include in your thriller? why? (3/4 styles)

(Jump cut, Fade, Straight cut, Kulveshov effect, Dissolve, Timing of shot, Montage)

We have decided to use a number of different editing styles in our thriller film to help prevent our opening having miscommunication between scenes and also to make it build suspence and tention for the audience.

 

In our thriller opening we will be using ...

• Fast editing - because our opening can only be 2 minutes long, and fast editing show alot of information and detail in a shot period of time. I also feel as if it is an effective way to start our opening seeing as our storyline is about a stalker and using fast editing we can keep the stalkers identity hidden and seeing as the stalker will be doing a variety of different things like burning a girls photo and cutting himself, it keeps the audience on edge building up tention.
• Dissolve / Fade - because in our opening we will be making a flashback at the beginning of it and in order to get into this flashback we will be using dissolve and fade seeing as its the most effective way to jump into the whole storyline.

How will your editing styles help to make your thriller conventional?

Our editing styles will help make our thriller opening conventional because we will be using fast editing as the first editing style. This will be when the stalker is at the desk in the very first scene doing various scary things like cutting his hand, lighting the victims picture on fire and writing in his notes what he is planning to do to the victim. Fast editing would make it conventional to a thriller because it will be going at a fast pace which would make the scene look more chaotic and it will build up suspense for the audience. So when we show the stalker doing things like cutting his hand  and burning a picture of the victim etc, the fast editing will make it look more effective and therefore it will grab the audiences attention straight away and make then want to watch on.

The dissolve and fade editing style would make our opening conventional to a thriller because it leads in to the flashback which shows the audience everything that happend before the victim got captured. We use the dissolve cut and fade effect inbetween most scenes. So after the first scene is completed, we will use a dissolve cut and fade effect to lead us into the second scene which is the victim walking to her friends house. After the whole scene of the victim walking to her friends house is complete and the forest bit is done, we will then use the dissolve cut and fade effect again to lead into the final clip in our thrille opening of the victim tied up in a small dark room. The dissolve cut and fade is a useful effect to use seeing as it allows the audience to focus more on the actors facial expressions.