Planning editing styles-Miss Georgiou

Editing is important within a thriller film as it helps to engage the audience whilst watching the film, it helps keep the audience interested. Editing helps build tension and suspense really well which grabs the audiences attention. Editors job is to organise the footage and arrange individual shot combining them into one continuous sequence. Every scene has dozens of different shots that have to be chosen and assemble from all of the film. The editor's choices about which shots to use and the order in which place them, have a profound effect on the appearance of the overall film.

Editing is important because it creates a certain atmosphere for the audience, editing can turn a normal boring narrative into a jerky, fast paced and suspenseful thriller. Editing is where you take the best camera shots and arrange them accordingly to create the story-line also editing helps you put different effects over the clips you have filmed to make them look better.

What types of editing styles will you include in your thriller and why?

We have decided to use a number of different editing styles in our thriller film to help build suspense, surprise and shock to the audience.

• Fast Editing - We have decided to use fast editing in our thriller film because it can show a large amount of information within a couple of seconds. By using the fast editing it will make the audience nervy. It straight away creates an enigma as it is fast paced and jumpy. We also decided to use fast editing to create a chaotic atmosphere which is conventional to the thriller genre.
• Projector effect- We have decided to use this effect as over the opening scene it makes our clip look gloomy and creates a mysterious effect for the viewers.
• Dissolve cut/Flashback - We are going to use this style of editing to show the audience a flash back of  why the girl is possessed.
   

How will your editing styles make your thriller conventional?

Fast editing will make my thriller film conventional because it is at a fast speed. The quicker the pace of the film the higher increase of anxiety the audience will feel. It is also conventional because it enables us to create suspense as the fast editing keeps going away from the narrative to fuzzy tv screens or radios. This creates an enigma and makes the thriller film starts of with an unanswered question.

The Project effect is conventional because it makes the clip look dark and gloomy this is elements you always find in thriller films, this effect will help create tension and mystery for the viewers, this editing will help the audience build a relationship with the female victim as this effect makes the setting look dark and gloomy so the audience will sympathise towards the female victim.

The dissolve cut is conventional to the thriller genre as it reveals what happened to the victim and answers how she got in that predicament in the first place. A dissolve cut allows the audience to see the disorientation and confusion the victim is experience as if it is answering the audiences question of what happened.