Editing.

Editing

Editing is used in every scene of a film. Continuity editing refers to arranging different shots to suggest a progression of events and using the same shot can help the editor come up with different scenarios. E.g. a man glancing up and another man pulling a gun and firing it towards the camera. In the first order it looks like the man has been shot, but reversing this shot makes it look like the man is watching a shooting.

The speed of editing is how long each shot lasts and the style of editing is how each shot is linked, and these are the two most important aspects of editing. 

A dissolve is used for merging into a different scene for example a web fading to another web. One scene is fading out while another is fading in. there is usually a connection between places or the faces of the characters between shots. There could also be a change of lighting for example darker to brighter. This indicates the end of a particular scene or the passing of time.

A straight cut is the most common and invisible form. These instantly change scene without attracting the audiences attention and help to retain reality. They do not break the audiences suspicion of disbelief. 

A wipe is when one image is pushed off the screen to the left or right. It is more common for consistence.

A jump cut is where the attention of the audience is focused on something specific suddenly and this occurs by breaking the continuity editing which is known as discontinuity. This appears when a moment of the film is stopped.

The Big Six

The Big Six are all of the major production companies

Paramount Pictures

Warner bros

Universal

20th century Fox

Columbia

Disney Pixar

Our Chosen Idea.

Our Chosen idea.

Our chosen idea is our first idea of the man on the bench with the newspaper. We have chosen this due to all our advice being given by other students and teachers. We asked a few questions to our class mates and videoed this and reviewed their answers. 

Idea three

Idea three

This idea is set in an abandoned warehouse and will involve a chase where one is trying to kill the other. The reason for this will remain a mystery and fast paced shots will be used to create tension and the sense of danger. There will also be the use of non-diegetic sound such as gun shots.

Idea two

Idea two

There will be a bomber in the shop of a deserted floor at the bottom of a busy mall and a hero needs to find the bomb. There will be an explosion throwing the bomber out of the shop and we see the hero appearing through the smoke and flames of the smashed glass window coughing, his face covered.

Idea One

idea one

The first idea our group had for a thriller was of a man whose face is hidden by a newspaper. This newspaper will be covered in blood from the mans hands and on the front will have a missing person. Then we will show flashbacks of how this missing person was attacked and murdered, which is when the man on the bench comes back from his flashback and leaves. Throughout this whole scene we do not see the mans face, only his hands and the top of his head, this causes tension. 

Survey monkey thriller questionnaire results.

Results.

These are the results I gathered from my thriller questionnaire. 

Thriller Opening.

Group 51

We have been working in groups to create our video tasks as practice for the filming and editing of our final piece. This final piece will be the opening of a thriller and will last about two minutes. We have been gathering ideas together and my following blog posts will represent all of our ideas and the complications which may come with the filming of them including assessments.

Scary Ashleigh, preliminary task.

Preliminary Task.

This is our group's preliminary task, the shots that we made were:

• eye to eye shots
• long shots
• close up 
• and extreme close ups.

Memento Opening

Memento Opening

The film Memento directed by Christopher Nolan is about a man who suffers from short term memory loss and uses tattoos, notes and images to find the person who he thinks killed his wife. There are many different techniques used in the opening sequence which tells us this film is a thriller.

The conventions of a thriller used in the first five minutes include low key lighting creating shadows, the broken window, location in a disused and isolated industrial building site, bullets and the use of a gun. There is also blood, a dead body, the story is told backwards and there is a flashback used.

The use of the camera in this opening includes a point of view shot of him looking at the photograph, long shots, over the shoulder shots and close ups.

There is a lot of editing used such as when the photograph at the beginning becomes less distinct because we are moving backwards and the gun flies back into his hand. There is also a dissolve into the next scene and reverse shots are included.

The story is told backwards which makes the audience want to watch the rest of the film to know what happens.

Chuck Jones and 'The Rules'

Chuck Jones is an animated character who has worked at Warner Brothers for decades making short movies. Starring Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck and the company. He also made the road runners cartoons and from the first episode, an elaborate set of rules emerged.

                                                           The Rules

1. The Road Runner cannot harm the Coyote except by going "meep, meep."

2. No outside force can harm the Coyote -- only his own ineptitude or the failure of Acme products. Trains and trucks were the exception from time to time.

3. The Coyote could stop anytime -- if he were not a fanatic.

4. No dialogue ever, except "meep, meep" and yowling in pain.

5. The Road Runner must stay on the road -- for no other reason than that he's a roadrunner.

6. All action must be confined to the natural environment of the two characters -- the southwest American desert.

7. All tools, weapons, or mechanical conveniences must be obtained from the Acme Corporation.

8. Whenever possible, make gravity the Coyote's greatest enemy.

9. The Coyote is always more humiliated than harmed by his failures.

10. The audience's sympathy must remain with the Coyote.

11. The Coyote is not allowed to catch or eat the Road Runner.

Thriller Survey

We used surveymonkey.com to create a survey for market research on ideas for how we will do our thriller opening. I hope to collect as much information and ideas as I can from different people for results and data on my survey. Please answer some of my questions.

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