Planning editing styles - Miss Georgiou

Why is editing important within a thriller film?

What editing styles will you included within your sequence & why? what effect will it create?

How are your editing styles conventional to a thriller film?

How will your editing appeal to the audience?

Editing styles are vital when producing film clips because they create different emotions and feelings amongst the audience. Generally editing is used to provide coherence and excitement to a film. The person who edits the film is called the editor. Editing just like cinematography can be used to create more than one perspective. The film that I analysed was 'The shining' because there is evidence of different editing techniques throughout.

Within our opening sequence we will use a variety of editing effects to help set the narrative and connect to the audience. One main editing style we will use will be timing of shots, the main reason of this editing style is to either make things look faster or slower and to add an emotional impact or to create suspense. This editing is useful because it can be used several times within the same scene, for example we may use a slow edit at the start of the clip when the girl is getting ready this would add an emotional relationship to both the characters and the audience. It will also add to the emotional feel of the clip and make the opening sequence more effective. This specific editing style is conventional to the thriller genre as it creates emotional responses from the audience, for example suspense is a frequently occuring emotion created amongst thriller films.

A jump cut will be used when the camera focus is emphasised on the girl preparing to jump into the lake, a jump cut is a cut in film editing in which two sequential shots of the same subject are taken from camera positions that vary only slightly. This type of edit gives the effect of jumping forwards in time. It is a manipulation of temporal space using the duration of a single shot, and fracturing the duration to move the audience ahead.  A jump cut is conventional to a thriller film as it creates a sense of suspense and mystery amongst the audience. It will also help build a relationship between the audience and girl as the editing style will help convey her emotions to the audience making them sympathise with her.

As the clip is closing to an end we will use a dissolve shot to emphasise her fading away and dying, it could also directly draw a connection between both the girl and the water as we desire to use a ripple affect to connect to the water theme. The dissolve shot will be conventional to a thriller film as it creates tension and suspense amongst the audience as they're experiencing an time of death which makes it more dramatic.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.


In conclusion editing styles are used in thrillers in order to make them seem more mysterious and add an extra layer of tension to the narrative as they're whole experience is enhanced by the effects that have been incorporated into the thriller.