Research into Editing Styles - Miss Georgiou

In this blog I will be analysing the different editing styles used in my chosen clip from a thriller film. Editing is very important in thriller films because it can be done in a variety of different ways to quickly change the emotion and pace of a scene. They are also used to create excitement, suspense and a relationship between the audience and the characters.

The clip above is from Scream 3 called 'The Cutting Room', it uses many different editing styles to try to develop a relationship between the characters and the audience, by doing this, the audience feels more sympathy towards the character and feel more involved with what is actually happening in the scene.

 

The first editing style we see in this clip is the timing of shots, during the fight/chase scene the shots were speeding up to create excitement, the shots also change rapidly from short top quick to build tension. The timing of shots speed up during the fight scene and slow down when she is trying to hide. The timing of shots are sped up and slowed down to change the pace of the scene, to create excitement.

A jump cut is also used when the knife is focused on, it lets the audience know something bad is going to happen as the knife indicates danger and the audience can feel more involved in the scene as they can expect something to happen in the scene and still keeps the suspense.

When we see the girl's facial expression a reaction shot is used, this is done to show to the audience how the character is feeling and the situation they are in, by doing this, the audience can then sympathise and share the character's feelings by putting themselves in that situation. This helps build a relationship between character and audience.

This clip has shown me a few ways to use different editing styles very effectively in my own thriller opening. I can implement a number of different editing styles to enhance my own opening to a thriller film by using them to create suspense, tension and build character - audience relationships.