Research into editing - Miss Georgiou

Film editing is the process of manipulating and rearranging video shots to create a new work. Editing is commonly considered to be part of post production process. The film editor uses and works with raw footage, selecting shots and combining them into sequences to create a finished motion picture.

In the thriller 'Orphan' in the ending fight scene they use a montage. This is the speed of editing where shots are quickly juxtaposed together. We see this at 27 seconds to 37 seconds. When is shows a number of different shots of the two female characters fighting and the frightened little female character. The high speed of the different shots increases the speed of the clip and creates excitement and the convention of tension which makes the viewers nervous to what will happen next.

Also there is a different timing of shots. This is when we see the young female actress sliding down the snow to reach the gun. Quickly followed by the fast pace of the shot of the close up of the female actress with the knife. This helps to create suspense as it shows theaudience the fast pace of the fight and gives the a sense of how they would feel if they was in this position.

The 180 rule. This is used when the two actors are fighting as we never see the other scenery other than both the characters fightin on the lake. We never see the house in this clip. The use of the 180 rules enables the audience to visually connect with unseen movement happening around and behind the immedidate subject. It is also important in the narration of a battle scene. It also helps viewers not to get confused with the clips.

A straight cut is also used in this scene. This happens when we see the two female actresses fighting at one point and then we see a straight cut when they change the viewpoint to the little girl sitting on the hill of snow. This shows the different feelings of the characters and causes tension as the viewers wonder what the little girl will do to help her mother. The use of the female victim is also a convention as it shows that she is vulnerable.

This research will help us when we make our own thriller clip as we can see which different editing techniques will be appropriate for our specific thriller clip. It will also help us as each different technique causes different effects for viewers which means we can use specific ones to cause more tension and fright so we can make our thriller clip the best we can.