Planning Editing styles - Miss Georgiou

In a thriller, editing is used to engage the audience into the scene and create suspense, shock and surprise. Editors do this by using editing such as a fade, this creates the 3 S’ as it shows emotion as its slow and might show someone’s life fading away.

In my group we decided to use these editing styles

Fade

Jump cut

Slow editing and many more

We first used slow editing. We used Slow editing when the girl is in her room and hears a knock at the door. She knows that the person knocking isn’t her husband. We used slow editing when she is walking towards the door, this builds up tension and creates suspense. This is because the audience know who’s knocking at the door and are waiting for her to open and be killed. This creates a relationship between the girl and the audience as they know her fait and feel sympathy for her as she is portrayed as innocent and is about to be killed by the killer. This is conventional to the thriller genre as many editors use slow editing to build up tension and create suspense for the audience.

The next piece of editing we do is jump cut. We use a jump cut when the man arrives home from work and the killer is waiting in the corner of the room. We see this scene from the killer’s point of view. We used a jump cut here because they are used when the editor wants the audience to suddenly focus on something, in this case the killer in the corner. This puts the audience in an uncomfortable position, as they know the killer is there and want to help the man but they cant. This creates a relationship between the character and the audience as they can put themselves in his shoes and realise he doesn’t have a clue who is in the room. This is conventional to the thriller genre as mostly every editor uses a jump cut to make the audience focus on something scary or something mysterious.

The last piece of editing we use is a fade,. We have used this as the screen fades to black and it will often signify danger or that something is going to suddenly take a dramatic change for the worse. This is used at the end of our opening sequence, straight after we see the killer pop up at the mans car window. We used this here because it is the end of the scene and creates suspense for the audience, as they do not know what will happen to the man. This engages tem into the sequence, as they will want to watch the rest of the thriller to find out what happens to the man. This is conventional to the thriller genre as editors tend to use this to show something dangerous is about to happen or someone’s life is ending or about to end which is just how we have used it.