Speed of editing

The speed of editing

The speed of editing can suggest a genre of a film, for example a thriller having fast cuts to create fast paced action or a horror to create scenes to make the audience jump in fear.

Cutting a scene at the right moment could be the difference between creating suspence or having no suspence at all or creating a scene that keeps the viewer guessing.

Slow editing can create a film to become boring unless used in the correct way. For example using slow editing from a point of view shot to show a sad or confused emotion.

Thriller Recipe

Thriller Recipe

A good thriller should contain certain aspects and techniques such as, dramatic lighting, suspense, dietetic and non dietetic sound, red herrings, cliff hangers and camera angles to suggest different things such as slow angle shot to suggest power.

A director who was good at this was Alfred Hitchcock. He was also known for the use of a Mc Guffin in most of his films which not all thrillers use but are helpful to drive a plot.

A successful thriller will have the audience gripped from the beggining right through to the end.

Alfred Hitchcock

Alfred Hitchcock











Sir Alfred Joseph Hitchcock was born on the 13th of August 1899 and died on the 29th of April 1980 and was an English film director.  He directed films such as:

• North by North West 
• Birds 
• Rebecca
• The 39 steps

He was a great well known director who knew how to include suspense, McGuffins, and cliff hangers in his films. In one of his films "North by North West he used a litteral cliff hanger. He also was good in the ways he used different camera techniques and mise end scene to suggest different things.  

Studio Idents

Studio Idents

A studio Ident is what shows up before a film starts an allows the veiwer to know which production company made the film. Here are some examples:

Shooting Schedule Day 1

Shooting Schedule Day 2

During filming we took a group photo

Conor- Dr. J Smith
George- Rupert Jones
Rebecca- Angela Smith

Costumes and Props

Costumes and Props

Character Name:	Angela Smith
Costume: Everyday clothing Causual Button Shirt  Trousers  Shoes/ Trainers	Props:
Character Name:	Dr.  Jeremiah Smith
Costume: Dark, smart suit Shirt and tie Glasses	Props: Clipboard Notes about patient Photo frame with picture of Dr. Smith and Rebecca Desk Pen Preferably a laptop Clock
Character Name:	Rupert Jones
Costume: Scenes in therapists office:	Props: Chair  Antibacterial Jel  Eye Test

Progress Sheet

PROGRESS SHEET

PATIENT #: 3

PATIENT NAME: DLMSKMSL

Description: Young Caucasian adult, recently experienced mild traumatic brain injury after car incident, medication consistent, no reaction to diuretics or anti-seizure drugs, prone to confusion, possible case of amnesia

*NB Former cadet, strength and aggression gradually improving with every visit

Checklist (treatment week 4)

  Experiencing incomprehensible visions

  An increase in visions

  Strength and aggression improving

  Amnesia worsening

  Taking increased prescription

  Obedience standard improving

Risk Assessment

Risk Assessment

Group Members: Saana, Rebecca, Connor, George           

Location: School first aid room, various public locations

Hazard	Person(s) at Risk	Likelihood of Hazard 1 – Extremely Unlikely 5 – Extremely Likely	Severity of Hazard Outcomes 1 – Very Low Risk 5 – Very High Risk	Risk Level (Likelihood + Severity) 2	Measures to Take to Manage Risk	Risk Managed? Y/N
Falling into the road and getting run over by a vehicle	Rebecca George	1	3	2	Must be cautious when filming near roads and try to choose less busy roads to film on.
Slipping on wet, rainy surface while running during an action shot	Rebecca George	2	1	1.5	Check the weather forecast and film outside scenes on dry days.
Alley Way, dangerous objects causing a hazard may not be seen if it is dark	Saana Rebecca Connor George	1	1	1	Make sure there is enough lighting
Candle, could get knocked over and cause a fire	Saana Rebecca Connor George	2	2	1	Extinguisher near by

Contacts

Emergency Service:            
Robert Clack School:            
Other Contacts:           

Collateral 2004

Collateral 2004

Genre: Crime Thriller

Staring: Tom Cruise and Jamie Foxx

Cast:

Jada Pinkett Smith

Mark Ruffalo

Peter Berg

Bruce McGill

Director: Michael Mann

Written by: Stuart Beattie

Collateral was Michael Mann's first film to be shot with the use of high definition cameras. In this film he used the Viper Film Stream High Definition Camera.

Collateral 2004 Trailer

The trailer is effective as it uses cuts appropriatley to fit the genre, so they are quite fast paced.

In the beginning Max Durocher (Jamie Foxx) meets a U.S Justice Department prosecutor Annie Farrel (Jada Pinkett Smith) whilst driving her to her office in his Taxi.  She offers to tip him but he refuses and tells her that she should keep the money and tells her to buy herself something special. Taking a liking to Max she decides to give him her business card.

As she departs his next passanger, Vincent (Tom Cruise) enters the cab offering Max $600 for chauffering him to five appointments and waitng for him after each appointment.  Max drives him to his first appointment as he waites Vincenr entees an apartment complex and shoots drug dealer Ramón Ayala.  He then unexpecedly falls out of the window an directly onto the taxi which forces Vincent to reveal himself as a hitman.  Max is then forced to hide the the body of guy in the trunk, clean up the car and then contine with their arrangement.

Tension is built when max plled over by the police due to the damage to the taxi from the impact of
Ramón Ayala, but luckily the police are called to a higher priority call so do nt investigate and Max and Vincent get away with a licky escape.



This clip creates tension as the audience know that there is a dead body in the boot. It creates the question if they will be caught or not. The viewer also feels sorry for the character Max as he had been dragged into driving around a guy who is commiting murders.




This clip tells us more about the character Vincent as manages to come across as completely normal even though he casually goes around murdering people.

The Russian Ark

The Russian Ark 

2002 historical drama film directed by Alexander Sokurov.

The Russian Ark was filmed all in one take without the use of any cuts. It was filmed in the Winter Palace of the Russian State Hermitage Museum using a single 96 minute Steadicam sequence shot. This film demonstrates what a film without any cuts would look like and why cuts are needed to add to the pace of a film. Without cuts the film is quite slow paced in most actions and would not work for a film that is a part of a thriller genre.

No Country For Old Men 2007

No Country For Old Men 2007



No country for old men is an american crime thriller and was adapted from Cormac Mc Carthy's novel and uses a villain driven plot.



The trailer is effective and leaves the audience in suspense by not giving away to much of what is happening but at the same time showing the audience the thrilling scenes then using cuts so that the audience ask themselves, what is going to happen next? The music used in the trailer is non-diegetic and speeds up throughout making it more intense.

Mise-en-scene suggests the film is of a western thriller genre.

Anton Chigurh


Anton Chigurh is the villain in 'No Country For Old Men' his role is a hit-man who has no remorse or compassion for human beings therefore can kill without guilt. His expression in most of his actions are plain so you can never tell what he is thinking or feeling. In one scene he flips a coin and gets the man at the gas station to guess heads or tails to decide his fate. To kill people he uses a captive bolt pistol he also uses this to shoot out locked doors. This is a unique choice of weapon suggesting that he is different from the usual criminal.

AS Media Studies – Preliminary Exercise Evaluation

Preliminary Task

In this preliminary task we had to use continuity editing which retains a realistic chronology and shows that time is moving forwards. This type of editing can use flashbacks or flash forwards as long as the narrative, which can be liner or non linear, can be seen to be progressing is a realistic way.

This was our preliminary task for AS Media Studies. We had to be able to use continuity editing for this  task. Our story line was based on a package exchange between two people. We are not introduced to any of the characters in the video so they are strangers to the audience, this leaves a bit of mystery. 

We managed to demonstrate elements of continuity elements in this task and stuck to the 180 degree rule.

Different types of filming techniques were used in this task such as:

• Match on action-we see a character start an action in one shot and continue it in the next 
• Shot reverse shot-this is used to show conversations 
• Eye line match-the character is seen looking at something off screen and then we cut to a shot of what they are looking at 
• 180 degree rule-where two characters  or other elements in the same scene should have the same left/right relationship to each other. 

The audio in this task was hard to include as the microphone had to be hidden whist filming and the source of sound had to be very close to the microphone. The dialogue scene had to be done a few times as we had to keep switching the mic as each person was talking which was hard to do as when we forgot to put the microphone on the person talking, the sound was not picked up as clearly as it would have been.

The most accurate shots would be the match on action and the eye line match as they worked well with the video when editing. They also did not have to be re-done as many times as the other shots. 

Improvements could be with the way we had to cut the film as some of the footage was not as clearly done as others so more cross dissolves had to be added in. Watching the video you can see the abrupt cuts. Also the dialogue could be improved as some words did not come out as clearly as we hoped.