Editing - Miss Georgiou

Editing  miss Georgiou

Editing is used to make the film and opening sequence more engaging and effective for the audience and the dirsctors. Without editing in a thriller film we wouldn't have the three S's , shock, suspense and silence. Editing styles include, straight cuts, jump cuts, montage, linking shots, fading, kuleshov effect and many more.
In my group thriller we have decided to use the editing styles of:
- jump cuts
- fading
- blurring out the background
- montage
Including a few others.

Jump cuts are used when the film suddenly focuses on something. We have used this in several scenes of our thriller as we believe it adds excitement to the thriller whilst also  focusing on one specific part of the film. We have used this in a particular scene where the hob on the fire turns on. This is to show the audience that something bad is going to happen with the fire, but yet get them thinking that everything is realistic and everything Is fine, just like in a normal home. This will make the scene more engaging as the audience start to focus on the fire and start to find out more and why it is linked to the victims, and the murders. This creates a relationship with the audience as they start to feel sympathy and suspense towards the victim and they now are focusing and figuring out the plot of the film. This would be conventional to a thriller film as the jump cut is also making the audience more engaged and scared about the next scene and the camera angle is conventional as it the thriller it is making the audience focus on the dangers of what is going to happen next.

Another editing style used was fading. We have used this as the screen fades to black and it will often signify danger or that something is going to suddenly take a dramatic change for the worse. This has helped us with our editing as we want the audience to feel suspense and tension when at the end of the scene. It makes them feel on edge and gets them ready for something to take a dramatic twist from reality and normality to disruption and death. Apart from tension and suspense, fading creates your conventions to a thriller as the colour black is associated with death so the fading could connote death is on the horizon. This would be conventional to a thriller as the colours are black and red, which will make the connotations more obvious in this scene.

We have also used montage. This is when the speed of editing, where shots are quickly juxtaposed together to create excitement. We have used this specific editing style as it makes loads of different shots join together at a fast pace. We are using this editing sake to create a heartbreat sort of pace, to make it look asif something is slowly getting fasting p, just like a heart beat, to make sure the audience are more  engaged and have to pay more attention to the film due to the fast editing pace. This will create a relationship with the audience as they start to feel more engaged with the film as they have to pay more attention to the short clips of the plot takeoff a dramatic turn for the worst. This is covnentional to a thriller film as the camera angle replicates a heartbeat. This could connote that the the tension is bulding therefore the heartbeat gets faster in the audience. Another idea could be that the montage could replicate the thoughts going through the victims head ad that paricular point, like life is flashing before their eyes.