Film Language test: Learner Response

WWW: You've picked out some important aspects such as eye-line match (or lack of them) and attempted to used media terminology through out. Plenty to build on here.

EBI: Written English is a massive problem. Pretty every apostrophe is wrong almost every use of terminology is spelt wrong. You must simply must write clearly and spell correctly when studying at A level.

- In term of media analysis, you need a let more in depth in terms of what is being communicated to the audience.

-Editing is a weakness and needs revising there are no jump cuts.

How is editing used to create Drama and Tension in the opening scene ?
In this opening scene the editing helps build up a the tension by cutting the main shot of the killers face and this has a very big impact on the audience which is also a enigma code that built the suspensions. Therefore, we did not make much relationship between the killer as his face was not shown which did not only build suspense it also made it a mystery because being apart and not being aware of who the killer is the audience will feel left out and also unaware of who the killer is right from the start which makes it that one bit more dramatic when the action code occurs. Therefore because of the lack of eye-line match it makes the continuity of the editing of the opening scene more tensed.

Secondly, the slow paced editing is helps build up the tension also as the pace builds the intensity of the actual scene of the opening scene and the fact you don't see the man in the trench coats face means it make's that tension build up. In addition to this the pace of the editing of this opening scene as pace is one of the most powerful use of editing it helps the killer make the dominate character look more powerful as the camera angle is being placed low to the ground and looking up at him this helps with the slow paced editing which gives it that edge as this built up the tension also as it is very slow paced which helped with enigma codes.

Finally, the last scene of the whole ship blowing up with the drop of the cigarette on to the petrol which re-lit the fire as the fire begun again it help build that action code once the ships blows up and also increasing the devastation for the main character who is has been put out by the relentlessly unknown charter who face has still been kept out of shot, this all helped build up to the eruption of the ship which was slow which created tension for audience and gave them the indication that the character that has been given a more identification and a relationship with the audience has been perished and then followed by after with the split second of orange flames built the drama and emotive feelings.      



 
     

Editing task

Saturday night fever: This intro for this film is very iconic with the style of editing in the clip which expressed the views of the 70's and this is done from the editing of the film. Firstly, the editing is done with continuity editing which gives this a very good narrative to begin with its introduction a why i have chosen continuity editing is because they have logically placed the shots which made linked  each shot one after the other therefore we felt like as if we are following the life of the character in the film this is clearly noticed in the first shot with the shoes first we are greeted as the audience to the shoes in the store and immediately was followed to the main character showing his shoes off which is then linked with a medium close up of his shoes these jumps cuts help visualize his everything from the character within the world of the film. This is also a juxtaposition seeing the same thing at two contrasting positions.  

Most of the segments of this clip because of are paced on the speed of the song and how to the speed of his walk therefore they show his shoes and feet a which are moving in beat to the song and this helps build a relationship with the character which is a key thing in the narrative of the film as this is a main character/star of the film meaning they will want him on screen most of the time and that is why we get a opening scene at his point of view so the audience will get a idea of the character. A example of this is we get a jump cut to his literal point of view of him approaching the women which gave the audience a very big impacting view for his whole life. And this was all lead up from the shoes as after the shoes he then went to the clothing shop and put the deposit down for the shirt and this gave a  build up to the main shot of why he does all this which is for women and to look presentable for them and that is all down to the continuity editing of the clips which gave it a much more bigger effect on the audience.

Even though sound dose not come into editing it helped with its diegetic sound when the jump cut show a low angle shot of the main character and with the diegetic sound of the shoes tapping it gave the shot the purpose for him to express and show off his essence and they have done this by using the continuity editing of the main charter and his shoes which is the main shot that the music begins with and this juxtaposition was followed with a eye-line shot of the characters face and eyes and thus my point of continuity editing which shows all the links he has a massive in how he dresses; shoes , the shirt and the women and these all go hand in hand with each each other. As they have a connection which gave lead the overall answer of him being a man who will spend alot of money for women to preserved him in a sexual manner.

Finally, we also get a shot of him eating food which is a very odd cut and that is because we dont really get a any shots of him making money until the end an that has the audience wondering what he does for a living to afford all these lavish items like the clothes and shoes. Therefore we receive as the audience the shot of him running with the paint can and holding the paint can as that is his main source of income in fact that is why he went out to get the paint in the first place. Therefore all these shots helped build the individuals ethos. Shockingly this only just the opening scene of the film wich means the edit has a very massive impact on the whole ingenuity of the film which mean editors msut take everything into consideration before actually editing and that is why content is so effective from the way it is morphed.