Monday, 15 October 2012

Editing Ideas

EDITING IDEAS
Drama genre films can interlace with different genres of film so there can be drama horrors or dramatic thrillers etc, so there can be different editing techniques for these different sub genres e.g.:

THE READER:




Subtle colours are used in the taglines (binary opposition in screenshot above) so that this particular drama conforms to the stereotype of the romantic element it is also trying to portray.

I SAW THE DEVIL:



Jump cuts are used to create sense of disorientation which is ideal for a horror/crime drama as there are many enigmas created within the trailer itself.

CHOOSE:





This trailer uses a lot of reaction shots and this is so that the audience can see and almost feel how the actors and actresses are reacting to certain situations in the trailer despite the fact that the teaser trailer is not in linear order.


In some of the research I have done there are some editing techniques I have seen in dramas that could be possible inspiration to our own teaser trailer in some short films. The screenshot below shows a type of editing where the colouration of the actual filming has been changed to a luminescent purple which makes the close up effective as the audience can see the smallest details in the protagonist’s face in the close up shot, making it more surreal and heartfelt by the audience. The purple colour makes the shot look different and haunting in a way which could be really effective in our own piece of work if done accordingly.




In “Emotion” I found that the slow motion parts of the short film were really effective in terms of how the protagonist feels, as though time slows down shown through her emotion and body language which makes her appear distraught and maddened. The jump cuts were efficient in making her seem quite disjointed from how she was feeling at the start, and the contrast shown is very noticeable which choice of editing because she seems quite unstable, and Jake one of our protagonists is supposed to be this way, so this editing could be useful to us in some way.








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