Task Seven: Engaging the Viewer/Creating Pace

Task seven: Engaging the Viewer/Creating Pace

Engaging the viewer- knowing who your viewers will be, what their interest and needs are.
Speed of editing- the increment of pace and action.
Cross cutting- an editing technique often used in films to establish action occurring at the same time in different locations. 
Cutaways- is the interruption of a continuous filmed action by inserting a view of something else.
Creating pace- creating pace while editing in a film is where a film speeds up or slows down in certain parts of the film. 
Development of drama- editing is used to develop drama.  

How the pace of editing can be used to create range of effects is it increases the action and makes it more motivating. It makes the viewer feel more elevated and thrilled because the editing will be moving in a quick pace as the shots/scene are changing frequently. Films genres like horror and action movies give a range of different effects of its pace in editing. A scene can can start really slowly and the gradually speed up of the tempo of the scene or it can be the opposite.  The speed of editing can judge the mood of what is taking place on screen. However there are noticeable scenes when the scene last longer and change less frequently. this would usually happen in romantic comedy films. These type of films are in relaxed mood and the audience is drawn in to the scene.
Movie trailers the editing is really fast because they need to be able to fit in enough detail to give a glimpse of what exciting stages of the film will happen before it is exhibited in the future in the future at a cinema. Movie trailers move in a fast pace to create an excitement in the viewers mind, implying to  them to go and watch the film. Trailers would have loud music in the background to link up with the pace of the shot cutting and editing.

To cross cut is to edit together two sqeuences that the audience need to know are connected in the same way. Often in a scene cross cutting in a film something is happening in different locations at the same time in different locations linking them together at the end. Cross cutting can be used to create to a very effectively develop a sense of drama. Horror movies are big fans in creating a development of drama because it also makes the viewers feel an emotion to the character that can possibly be in danger. For example in the film Scream, the death of Casey in the opening scene makes it more dramatic and thrilling by the cross cutting to her parents approaching to her and could possibly save her. This will make the audience eager as they approach the scene when she dies.
   

How we have created are creating pace video and the tension of our sequence is that we used the techniques and ranges of effects. Our played different roles to make this video:
Director- Ronaldo Paloka
Producer- Babajide Shokeye
Editor- Usman Mohammed (myself)
Cameraman- Theo Kindudi
Cast- Edison, Ronaldo and myself
While making this video we created pace of the editing to make it clear to the audience they are about to meet. We filmed and edited a shot sequence in which two characters are approaching each other in different locations. I played as the victim, an innocent student studying in a classroom, and Edison and Ronaldo played as two criminals who attempt to kidnapped the student. We used the effects of speed of Editing. The pace of editing starts slowly, as we go along through the sequence it would start to increase as they get closer together. I used the effect of cross cutting. When cross cutting in two different locations the audience will know that these two scenes or characters are connected to come together sooner or later. In this sequence the innocent student is studying at the same time the two criminals (Edison&Ronaldo) are walking fearless along the peaceful corridors of the school in order to attempt to kidnapped the student, while the student is totally unaware what is going on or what will happen in the final moments. What i feel could have done better was to do more short scene and cross cutting. At the start of the film a felt that i should done the build up to the characters getting closer much  faster. The film was seeing to much of me reading an not enough pace and cross cutting into the criminals. And these mistakes makes the film to predictable.