planning: Editing

The quality of the editing within a film is very important, especially in thriller films because the editor plays a part to determine how the audience feels. Its essential because it puts all the filmed work together to get the directors final idea. Planning out what editing techniques to use will be important as they will save us time when it comes to actually editing.

At the start of our thriller opening scene all the characters will be introduced at a slow paced editing as it enable the audience to understand the characters and the relationship with the other characters within the film. In addition it gives times for the audience to clarify the character characteristics and personalities, it will also be used for the opening credits as we will need to state who the character is played by and the characters name/role within the movie for example, "khaled jaffer as the nerd." By using slow paced editing it helps us to show the characters body language, facial expression and costume while showing the opening credits, saving us more time as the opening scene can only be 2 minutes long.

Next; a straight cut will be used to show the antagonist who is watching the group of friends from a distance. We have chosen this simply because there is no other reason to use other editing techniques. This will automatically make it clear to the audience that its gone from one area of the forest to the next and also with the characters.






There will be a few fade cuts withing the opening scene. The fade cuts will be used to indicate that a few minutes/hours has passed and there is new activity which the group are getting on with. Without a fade cut the audience will never know that time has gone by which is why its essential that we use this editing technique.

Fast paced editing will be used when the ‘’antagonist’’ captures there first victim and starts to kill them. Consequently, this will create tension for the audience members as they'll be in shock of what has happened to the victim in such a short time and therefore they will be alert looking out for any other piece of action they can capture. The fast paced editing automatically put the audience in a zone where they would feel uncomfortable because of how fast the editing is, making them expect something to happen however they wouldn't know at what point it would.

Finally, this will then dissolve into the scene where the couple find the victims camera on the floor with blood around it. Similarly, this will create tension for the audience keeping them alert and they are still confused and are alert to seek for answers within the thriller to try and complete the prices of the puzzle.