Editing Our Thriller Opening

allot of time and effort was invested into the editing our thriller opening. we were looking to achieve a very high standard. we have aimed to capture a very confused and disorientated collection of shots which when pieced together, although chronologically correct and well ordered, are hard to follow and therefore work to bemuse and simultaneously intrigue the audience. an example of how we achieved this was through breaking up and splitting scenes by adding only a single frame of a separate event between them. we also utilized black frames in a similar fashion. this allowed us to bewilder the audience further, as it is unusual to include sections where there is no footage in the opening sequence of a film as it is normally packed full to try and entice the audience. however by introducing black frames and breaking the mold we are able to grab the attention of the viewer as it is something new.

another example within our piece is when we have taken the audio from one piece of footage and configured it to play over the top of a separate piece of footage. ( this occurs when we witness the murder of the police officer) this method utilizes the audio to tell the story of how the story has reached this point and why.

further editing include the use of a graphic match in the way that i have linked the movement of the bohemians spinning to the circular motion of the camera in the following shot.

one of the most successful pieces of editing in this opening takes place towards the end when one of the bohemian characters is running away from the drug dealer. here i have edited in singular frames of a clock, representing that the characters time is almost up.

another successful part is at the end when the footage cuts to a black frame with the title displayed in time with the final gunshot marking the end of a life and the start of the rest of the film.