Planning Editing Styles- Miss Georgiou

When planning for our group narrative we have to plan precisely what we will be including within our clip. In this post I will be discussing the editing styles that our group will use in our final clip. Editing within films makes sequences more effective and engaging for the audience. Editing also allows the 'Three 'S'' to take place, shock, surprise and suspense. The potential editing styles that we could include within our clip are straight cuts, jump cuts, montage, linking shots, fading, kuleshov effect and many more. However, the editing styles we have decided to use are:
- Jump cuts
- Fading
- Blurring out the background
- Montage 
Including a few others.

Jump cuts are used when the film wants to quickly and suddenly focus on something. We have used this style of editing within our clip in several frames as we believe it will add excitement and create a chaotic effect whilst focusing on one part of the film. The first time in which you will notice a jump cut is when the hob on the fire turns on. The jump cut here will imply to the audience that something bad is going to happen with the fire, but yet, still making it seem that everything will be fine because there is a sense of realisation and are led to believe that possible nothing bas is going to happen. This ultimately will make the scene more engaging as the audience start to focus on the fire and start to question what is going to happen next to the person within the house. Jump cuts are conventional to the thriller genre as they build the suspense and tension as we start focus on certain things. Jump cut used within our clip will create a relationship between the audience and the victim as they start to feel sympathy towards her and want her to be careful around the fire.

The next editing style we will be using is fading. We have used this when the screen fades to black and will portray danger or that something is going to suddenly take a dramatic change for the worse or something may jump out at the audience creating a scary atmosphere. This editing style has helped our narrative to achieve suspense and shock. It has also created tension as when the screen goes to black, we are unable to know what may happen next. It also makes the audience sit on edge and gets them ready for something to take a dramatic twist from reality and normality to disruption and death. The fading into black is conventional to the thriller genre as the colour black is associated with danger. The danger portrayed here may mean is will result in death.

We will also be using montage. This is when editing is quick, the shots are quickly put together to create excitement. We have used this specific editing style as it joins lots of different frames together at a fast pace. We are using this editing style to make a heartbeat sort of pace, the clips will get faster and faster, just like a heartbeat. We have done this to make sure the audience are more engaged and and pay more attention to the film due to the fast pace of the film. This will create a relationship with the audience as they are engaged with the film, paying attention to the little detail, feeling on edge for the victim and hoping nothing bad will happen to her.