Thursday 17 January 2013

Editing Sequences

East Enders - Who is Kats lover?
The editing in this sequence shows an enigma as the first shot is of Janine and her husband, we the audience can see that they are both awake, but Janine believes that her husband is asleep and the camera slowly zooms in. Then we cut to a more overview of the bed, using match on action and see her husband waking up and picking up his phone then we pan while watching him walk out of the room this is an important scene to the audience because we feel like we are given a special insight into what is going on and we can begin to start predicting what is going to happen.

Then we cut to Janine to see her turning over in the bed watching him walk out of the room. It has been edited in this way to show us the reaction of both characters, and so we know what is going on without them actually communicating. Janine then gets out of the bed and walks around the bed where her husband walked and stopped just in front of the camera the camera is, we then see a mid shot of her, they used a mid shot to show her body language and a clear view of her facial expression this a clear shot because now the audience can begin to understand wether the situation is going to be good or bad.

We then see Kat picking petals off a bunch of flowers and on the phone, this particular shot could make the audience link Kat being on the phone with Janine’s husband. Through out the rest of the sequence the scenes jump to different characters being on the phone.



Haven - (TV Show) - A conversation over dinner (chief)
We see an establishing shot of the outside building then we see a master shot of the inside of the restaurant then we cut to focus on a woman at the dinner table then dialogue begins and there are jump cut between the man and the woman showing that these are the main characters and emphasising the importance of this dialogue. The pace is fairly fast which shows the intensity.

Then it cuts between the chef and we cut between the different people talking, all the people in the restaurant are in formal clothing which could suggest that it is a fairly expensive restaurant. It is very secretive throughout because the main couple are mostly whispering to each other and there a lot of mid shots.

We see two people talking which is supposed to be private and we seen the couple looking over and eavesdropping as they are trying to gather evidence against the chef and the fact that they are trying to poison them. The mood is jolly and happy then is suddenly changes and people get sick and start to die. 


The Pelican Brief - Film - Will they be killed? (Car) Thriller 
Firstly we see two people walking away from the camera and because the camera is behind them we know that we are following them then we cut to another two people walking towards the camera from the building behind then we cut to see that they are following the first two people. 

Then we cut to them in a car park walking and because the camera is behind pillars and cars we know that camera is sort of hiding from them or it could signify that they are doing some secretive business getting into a car. Then we cut to see a different and he seems to be watching them we cut back to the first two and we see them in the car looking through papers and documents. 

We then see them get out of the car and the camera tracks them as they run for the door and we cut to the man looking at them from the other car then we cut back to them trying to open the door to get out and we track them as they run away from the man and there is a lot of match on action and we keep cutting back to the person that is casing them but from far away (long shot) so we know that he is there but we cant see his facial expression. 

Then the couple jump down on to a car and there is a little bit of slow motion to emphasis how far they jump. The cutting has slowed down as we track to see them sitting down breathing heavily this signifies the initial case is over and that they think that they are safe but not completely. Later in the sequence the chase starts again and there is a constant pan when they are going up the stairs. Then we see the man chasing them in the car and gunshots are fired then right at the end the car explodes

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