Planning Editing Skills-Miss Georgiou

Planning editing skills

Editing is crucial to a thriller film as this is what helps build suspence and create a higher fear factor. It plays a pivotal role as this is what helps build enigma and creates a more tense atmosphere for the audience watching.

In my thriller i will include a variety of different editing skills. Starting with a jump cut, i will use a jump cut as this will help the audience understand what the main focus is, allowing them to understand the opening sequence further and get into it more as they know what the main points are and what links together. Another editing terminology i would use in my opening sequence is slow editing. This is when the clips are juxtaposed together at a slower speed then the shots previous, as this helps build suspence and tension because the audience are more aware of what is happening, this will help show the audience what genre our opening sequence is based on. As well as these two i will also use a straight cut, as this will help us change the scene and show the different settings we are using, also it will help the audience identify what is going on. Allowing them to be involved in the film and also create shock and tension as they are unaware of what the next setting or shot is going to be off.

Using these will cause the audience to be more interested in the opening sequence as they are given an in site to different aspects of the film, also it helps build tension and will create a shock factor for the audience when the clip will change to something else. The slow cut will add to the thriller genre as it will build the tension and the best part of the scene, causing the audience to understand whats happening and be shocked, causing it to be applied to a typical thriller.