We then decided to use a fade out to fade in effect. The audience will see this when the camera fades out to black and fades back into the victims POV. This shows that she is unconscious and that the antagonist has inflicted pain upon her. This allows the audience to instantly feel sorry for the female victim. This shows the audience that he doesn't care about what he will do to her and what the consequences might be. This shows the audience that he is reckless and unforgiving, which is conventional to the thriller genre because the antagonist is hated amongst the audience. This helps the audience to build a relationship with the victim as they are scared for the female victims safety. This is conventional as it builds up tension as the audience do not know what might happen next, ultimately engaging them. The reason we decided to use this is because it also incorporates continuity editing, this is because the fade in and out makes the audience feel as if they are actually the female victim.
We then chose to use a reaction shot, this is evident when the audience watch the antagonist scrape the knife along the wall then the camera looks at the female victim crying. This will show the audience that the female victim is frightened and doesn't know what will happen next, helping the audience relate to her as they feel the same. This then creates an enigma because the audience do not know what might happen to the victim, which makes the audience worry for her. This is conventional as it builds up suspense because no one knows what will happen, this also engages the audience because it keeps them hooked onto the film. The group and I decided to use this shot because we thought the shot would be conventional as it shows the female victim being weak and vulnerable because she is scared and it shows that she is inferior to the antagonist.
The group and I have chosen to use timing of shots because it is conventional and the slow editing creates many different possibilities, which could happen to the female victim. This is evident when the audience see the victim walking through the alley looking at the photos of herself. The audience will see slow editing at this point as they see the female victim walking slowly to create tension. Then when the antagonist grabs the female victim, the scene will speed up and the audience will be introduced to a montage editing of the female victim struggling to escape from the antagonist. This shows the audience that something bad will happen because they can forebode death to come due to the timing of shots. This helps the audience to build a relationship with the victim as they sympathise for her as she is being hurt and injured. This is conventional as it builds up suspense by the tone of the scene suddenly being dangerous.
To conclude, planing this has helped us to create a conventional opening sequence because it has helped us to realise what editing styles will suit the scene. This planning was useful because it helps us to visualise if the editing style will suit the scene, this also saves us a lot of time when filming because we already know what we want to do and we know that it is conventional and suitable. It also saves us a lot of time because we already know what we want to include in our opening sequence before we start editing the footage.
This post demonstrates some planning techniques. You have made a start in describing four editing styles that you would like to include within your sequence, but you need to explore why you selected it, where it will be evident and the effect that it will create in more detail. This is because some of the points that you have included are a little vague and need to be explored in more detail throughout.
ReplyDeleteSeparate your points into paragraphs, as it is a little difficult to read.