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David Lynch, director/editor of Eraserhead (1977)
No one makes film quite like the great and bizarre David Lynch. The director/editor/auteur of  The Alphabet, Eraserhead,  In-land Empire  and so forth has a unique cinematic style and narrative form of his own that has no limit and creates a whole new visual world that stays with the audience long after the screen goes black. His processes and results of cuts form a strong bond between human intellectual feelings and emotions that instantly ties them to what the audience sees on the big screen. Lynch doesn’t exactly attack heart-felt emotions, but instead Lynch stabs the very one thing that’s vulnerable and is common in every being’s souls; fear. The fear of not knowing is something that everyone has either embraced that fact or ignored and continue life without the knowledge of knowing. In David Lynch’s television series called Twin Peaks (1991), a crime drama blended with doses of surrealism adds to the oddity of the crime show itself. The series follows a FBI Agent Dale Cooper, who travels to the small town of Twin Peaks to solve the unexpectedly puzzling murder of a high school prom queen; Laura Palmer. The show’s odd, eerie visuals and dream sequences do not exactly make sense why Lynch writes these bizarre scenes. However, these odd scenes do play some significance to the storyline in that series. One of the scenes for example; shows Agent Cooper in a dream state. He finds himself in this odd room called The Red Room, in there is a dwarf dressed in red and the victim herself; Laura Palmer. That room consists of nothing a few pieces of props that are clues that drive the storyline forward, leaving all the thinking to the audience.
The same can be said about one of Lynch’s earlier works; Eraserhead (1977), a bizarre or should I say outstanding in surrealistic measures.  Eraserhead is a film about a man named Henry that resides alone in a bleak apartment with his early fling who he married due to pregnancy. His newly wedded wife gives birth to a shockingly bizarre lizard-like creature that doesn’t stop wailing, from that point onwards his life has turned into a living surrealistic nightmare. I personally had to watch analysis videos based on this particular film simply because I have no clue what’s going on! But it’s safe to say that it IS a Lynchian film, and a Lynchian film always leaves the audience asking questions, as Lynch has intended. David Lynch has this talent of engaging fear in the hearts of his audience through the sequence of cuts in his editing style. His art form of fear seems to be the only method that is effective until today, and I believe one could learn a lot by studying his work.

Reference:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Lynch
http://eraserhead-interpretation.blogspot.my

Eraserhead Factory Scene: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qv2pU0h2cWg&t=8s

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Akira Kurosawa, Seven Samurai (dir. Kurosawa, 1954)
Akira Kurosawa was dubbed as one of the greatest filmmaker of all time despite being Japanese instead of the Westerner. He also edited most of his film (17 to be exact), probably because of his previous occupation as a painter made him more involved in the visual making of the film i.e storyboard making, editing.

Donald Richie, an American writer, stated that Kurosawa was probably "the world's greatest editor" and that illustrate how great Kurosawa is at the art of editing. Many of his editing skills were considered ahead of its time. One of them, is the wipe effect, where the scene crossfade with another scene, which was made popular by the Star Wars Trilogy.

In his movies where most of them carried a common theme and element which is the soul of humanity, his editing were used to portray just that. In Seven Samurai, during the final battle scene, he employed multiple cameras to shoot at the same time for smooth continuity, and to add multiple angle for more dynamic visuals. He also uses different lenses like telephoto to give the feeling of claustrophobia to the audiences. Also, he used plenty of cut-out from mid shot to wide-shot to illustrate the release of tension. Furthermore, he didn't put any score during the fight scene to emphasize the sense of realism.

Reference: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000041/bio?ref_=nm_ov_bio_sm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JqpWOvjkULY

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000041/?ref_=nv_sr_2

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0047478/?ref_=nm_flmg_edt_10

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Lee Smith, Inception (dir. Christopher Nolan, 2010)
Lee Smith is a pro editor in industry. He is well known editor in The Dark Knight (dir. Christopher Nolan, 2008) and The Dark Knight Rises (dir. Christopher Nolan, 2012). He is an Australian film editor and who has worked in the film industry since the 1980s. He began his film career as a sound editor on such films as Dead Calm (1989), The Piano (1993), The Portrait of a Lady (1996) and Holy Smoke! (1999). The films he edited get nominated in lot of award such as Inception and The Dark Knight Rises in Phoenix Film Critics Society Award for Best Editing.
The editing technique his used in Inception is quite impressive by lot of editing, even though the image in this film is quite complex but the result came out was impressive. The technique he used like parallel editing as in dream and in reality has to use parallel editing to prove the image.
Reference: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inception
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee_Smith_(editor)
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0809059/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8hP9D6kZseM

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1. Title : Richard Halsey , Editor for Rocky.

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Every filmmakers must appreciate and embrace the art of film editing where the process of cutting film apart and then taping it back together and place the film onto a machine that could hold multiple reels of film for the viewers should be taken care of . For film appreciation purpose , the editor I will be writing about is Richard Halsey , the editor for a monumental film entitled Rocky.

Rocky directed by John Avildsen and written by and starring Sylvester Stallone is a 1976 film and it is a story about a part time boxer named Rocky  who is living a boring life, occasionally talks to his pet turtles and collects money for a loan shark known as Gazzo (starring Joe Spinnell). The film was edited by Richard Halsey accompanied by his assistant editor, Scott Conrad and Rocky went on to win three Oscars, including Best Film Editing.

One of the most memorable well-edited scenes in Rocky is the training montage accompanied by inspiring song “Gonna Fly Now” ( by Bill Conti). In this particular scene, Rocky underwent exhausting training and workouts in order to get stronger and to be undisputed for his much publicized boxing match against Apollo Creed ( starring Carl Weathers). In this particular montage scene, it begins with shots of Rocky sprinted beneath an overhead train , run through the City of Brotherly Love’s street and marketplaces , punched a bag , did one-armed pushups , made punches into his mid-section ,executed endless situps , punches slabs of beef , sprinted along the city’s waterway and lastly he gloriously dashed up the endless steps of the Philadelphia Museum of Art. The moment Rocky reaches to the top, he turned around to look at the panoramic view of the city and triumphantly raised his hands in the air. This scene is the most famous montages in film history and montages is widely used to simply show a lot of action in a compressed amount of time and indicates the film’s character defining moment.

Reference:

Rocky Wiki. (n.d.). Retrieved February 12, 2017, from http://rocky.wikia.com/wiki/Main_Page

Best Film Editing Sequences. (n.d.). Retrieved February 12, 2017, from http://www.filmsite.org/bestfilmediting6.html

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DP3MFBzMH2o

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Emma E.Hickox / The Boat That Rocked (2009)

Emma E. Hickox is a British film editor who with a background of firmly in film.  Her parents are Douglas Hickox a director and Anne V. Coates a film editor back then. One of well-known film directed by Douglas Hickox is Theater of Blood (1973) meanwhile, Anne V. Coates is an editor for film Lawrence of Arabia (1962) as she win an Academy Award for Best Film Editing for this film. As we can see their daughter are following a footsteps of her mother to be an editor in films.  According British Independent  Film Awards website, she began her editing career in Los Angeles working as an assistant and 2nd editor on films such as Bird On A Wire, The Hard Way and Mr Jones (Hypegram 2017). Moreover, now she is an advisory for British film industry as she giving a talk about editing and discussing about her role as editor and her cuts in her style whether in film and TV series.

One of a great example of her editing is a film directed by Richard Curtis called The Boat That Rocked, this films is about a group of rogue disc jockeys (DJ) in 60-s who fight the government to air a classic rock music and their stations located at the middle of sea on the ships like a pirate literally they are pirate radio. What interesting is her Montage cut in this film when they DJ’s go celebrating The Stag party night the montage looks smooth with some of jump cut include on this montage. It is show how creative is to make the montage looks more enjoyable the using a music and jump cut with a vibe of 60s British Rock song.

Bibliography

BIFA, H. (2017) Emma E. Hickox, a.C.E. - BIFA - the British independent film awards. Available at: https://www.bifa.film/person/emma-e-hickox-a-c-e (Accessed: 14 February 2017).

PictureBox (2014) The boat that rocked | the stag party scene | the cast. Available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AIKi7uUZ6YI (Accessed: 14 February 2017).

Pirate Radio (2010) Available at: https://123movies.is/film/pirate-radio-2758/ (Accessed: 14 February 2017).

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The crew take a trip ashore for a Stag Party. Song: Lazy Sunday Afternoon by the Small Faces. Double Take: film-loving duo James King and Karen Krizanovich get up close and personal with films you haven't seen, and those you think you have.

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Jay Rabinowitz; Requiem for a Dream (Dir. Aronofsky, 2000)

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Jay Rabinowitz is an American film editor, music editor, as well as commercial editor. He graduated from NYU in 1984 where he took on the undergraduate Cinema Studies program. In the year 2000, the Phoenix Film Critics Society and the Online Film Critics Society cited his editing for Darren Aronofsky's Requiem for a Dream as that year's best. He has won multiple awards for his work on films such as The Tree of Life (Dir. Malick, 2011) and Requiem for a Dream.

Requiem of a Dream is an anti-drug cautionary tale. The story revolves around multiple protagonists as they spiral further into addiction. In the end, they all descend into tragically sorry states.

The film has an insane amount of edits. Most of it from the quick montages of drugs being prepared, injected and ingested; then showing the effects through extreme close-ups on their eyes. Prominent, assaultive sounds like moaning and lighter strikes are matched with these shots. The edit reflects their urgency and craving for a “quick fix”, and implies that the drugs take very little time to provide satisfaction. The edit is usually followed by either intense rapidly paced scenes, or long, slow, uncomfortable shots of the drug induced characters. During character hallucinations, Rabinowitz applies many effects, including slowing down the frame rates, to show the bizarre, trippy nature of the situation.

Besides that, he uses split screens creatively in various ways. He juxtaposes shots besides the characters to allow us to peek into their minds. He also uses split screen to focus on two things at once, without camera movement or distorting the space between.

I like the editing for the film because it steps outside of convention that altogether deliver the most effective, and stylistic way of portraying its characters.

Video Clip: - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p-Bwd0Y48m4

References Cited:

Requiem for a Dream, IMdB http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0180093/?ref_=nmawd_awd_12

Requiem for a Dream: Mastery of Editing https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v9kLIGY62Zw

Best Film Editing Sequences of All-Time http://www.filmsite.org/bestfilmediting10.html
Jay Rabinowitz (editor), Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jay_Rabinowitz_(editor)

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Scott Pilgrim vs. The World ( 2010 )

Edited by Paul Machliss

The film I choose is Scott Pilgrim vs The World directed by Edgar Wright and edited by Paul Machliss. The film is about the titular character who has to battle his girlfriend’s seven evil exes. There is no one scene that can be chosen from this movie because well the whole movie is packed with memorable scenes and transitions. Being heavily influenced by a lot of source material in video games, comic books and cartoons.

Paul Machliss is an Australian who has worked on projects such as British television series, The IT Crowd and Spaced. Spaced who was also directed by Edgar Wright. This relationship between them would also continue in The World’s End (2013).

In the film the editing is ever as stylized as the action, utilizing jump cuts during a shot reverse short to jump locations in order to convey the feeling of drifting through life as Scott Pilgrim does and they do it ever so seamlessly. Other than that, using split screens to make the frame look like a comic book panel, visual effects of a video games with good garage music makes us the audience engage in the film.

http://www.avidblogs.com/timeline-tuesday-paul-machliss/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gk2It_Pzo5I

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City of God by Fernando Meirelles is a dynamic masterpiece of Brazilian hood film and it was made in 2002. The most memorable part of City of God is its epic and powerful opening scene.

The editor of City of God is Daniel Rezende. Daniel Rezende is a Brazilian film editor. He managed to win the BAFTA Award for Best Editing and nominate an Academy Award for Best Film Editing 2003 for his contribution in City of God.

The opening scene of City of God shows a kitchen knife being sharpened in an extreme close-up. The knife sharpening’s shot and a black screen intercut repeatedly for more than 7 times in the opening. It makes it hard for audience to see clearly what’s the purpose of sharpening the blade,  only the sharpening sound (diegetic onscreen sound) can be heard clearly. The intercutting has successful in creating tension on the audiences and indicating violence is about to happen next. The scene continues with the crosscutting and close-up of alternate action shots, such as playing musical instruments (guitar, tambourine), peeling and cutting carrots and chicken being killed. The crosscutting depicts how often violence happen in that place. Eventually, it also allows the audience to tell violence is one of the key form used by characters in the film to gain and maintain power.

Unlike the other crime and drama films, City of God cleverly used fast cut editing in a few minutes of the opening scene to give audience a wide perspective what’s going to happen in the film with a few simple close-up shots is really fresh and compelling.  The stunning depiction’s examples showed in this film should really be analysed and practised by every filmmakers.

Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z4HUydk0kII&t=6s

Reference:

1)      http://www.slideshare.net/CosmoTeare/city-of-god-opening-scene-analysisdoc-34379443

2)      http://www.slideshare.net/hannahperry16/city-of-god-analysis

3)      http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0317248/

4)      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/City_of_God_(2002_film)

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Film Editor Case Study - Zach Staenberg / Roger Barton / Speed Racer, 2008Muhammad Harith Bin Noor Azmi - 1141128382

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It’s quite often that you come to an overlooked gem of such a film with amazing editors highly trained in defining action and reaction. This is one of them. Film Editor Zach Staenberg and Roger Barton were responsible of such masterpiece of a film that is Speed Racer , directed by none other than Lana and Lily Wachowski, who were also the brains behind the The Matrix Trilogy (1999). Apart from that, while Zach Staenberg works for the Wachowskis exclusively before hand in the post-production part of The Matrix Trilogy, Roger Barton on the other hand was also responsible for other masterpieces such as Titanic (James Cameron, 1997), Armageddon (Michael Bay, 1998), and Star Wars Episode III (George Lucas, 2005).

Speed Racer is a film about high octane action featuring science-futuristic elements embed into a world of single-seat auto racing. To think that someone would be able to revolve a film about racing with high speed vehicles would be an insane task to manage, yet here we are with the genius minds of the editors who manages to pull off the film supplying the audiences with action and emotion both at the max of it’s levels. One of my favourite scenes from the film is actually right off the bat into the first race of the film. During the time he was racing he was leading the pack throughout the later turns of the race by a mile, eventually leaving people to wonder why he was going so fast, and the reason being is that he wanted to break the record of his long lost brother who set the fastest speed record of the track.

Through the intense moments of the race, the editors specifically focuses their attention on four things, the protagonist, the audience, the race, and the story, constantly keeping them all in motion both literally and figuratively in a manner that was (for me at least) never done by anybody else and the design of how they edit every bit of motion to synchronize and blend well with one another is absolutely genius, and the very same principle of editing design that they’ve come up with are very much present in every single races the film has, it keeps the film incredibly emotional despite having large amounts of intense action moving through the whole film. The editors uses close ups, graphical match-cuts, and odd montage of slideshows and flashbacks that somehow works and blends really well with the environment of the actions that happens in the film.

The result of their editing styles is a gorgeous mixed bags of emotions, story, actions, reactions, and progression/change. Hence the reason why I picked these two editors specifically for the case study assignment. Sadly the whole movie was torn down by critics and reviews before it was even given a chance to shine in the cinemas, forcibly turning people down on what the film has to offer. In the end subjectivism is a thing and I can’t say everybody enjoyed the film, but I do because of the sheer intensity and impact it had on me.

References and cited sources:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h3B64O2iCp8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wEhqZ4396mo

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0821205/

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0059242/

http://putlockers.ch/watch-speed-racer-online-free-putlocker.html

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Matthew Newman is a British film editor and was well known by his work in the film Drive(2011) and Only God Forgives(2013). He did won lots of awards and nomination in film festival. The film Drive was nominated in BAFTA Award for Best Editing.

The particular editing style that I want to highlight is the scene in the film Drive (Dir. Nicolas Winding Refn, 2011) which is The Driver and Bernie confrontation scene right before the ending of the film. The Driver and Bernie were struggling to kill each other by stabbing one another.

The editing technique used by the editor is nonlinear timeline editing. Therefore, the timeline between the confrontation in the restaurant and the stabbing scene at the parking was been manipulated by the editor to create the tension and mystery towards the audience. Furthermore, it make the audience eagerly wants to know what will happen next and what will happen to the main protagonist. This technique really bring the audience feels much empathy toward the main protagonist of the film.

Work cited :
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm2482864/awards
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drive_(2011_film)

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=unJQ7ybO4Ic&feature=youtu.be

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The editor that inspire me the most is from the movie call 127 Hours, Jon Harris. Harris is film director and a film editor. He did his job mostly as a film editor as he starts his career at the year of 1995 as an assistant director of the movie called Solitaire for 2 and as an assistant editor for the movie called The Turnaround. To be honest I did not know that there are so many movies that I liked that was edited by Harris, for example Kick-Ass and The Woman in Black.

The part of the movie 127 Hours that I wanted to describe is the part that he lost hope to the situation he is in and flash back started to appear on screen. Harris did not just put in flash back memories scene on screen, he inserted the current situation he is in with the flash back together as a 3 way split screens. This gave the audiences an emotion that he is about to give up hope and started hallucinating as he saw an fictional character appear in front of him.

https://youtu.be/Pi75L13ipsY

Reference: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jon_Harris_(director)

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City of God (Dir.Fernando Meirelles, 2002)

Edited by Daniel Rezende

Daniel Rezende is a Brazilian film editor. City of God (Dir.Fernando Meirelles, 2002) was edited by him and it won BAFTA Award for Best Editing and was also nominated for an Academy Award for Best Film Editing on 2004.

Blindness (Dir.Fernando Meirelles, 2008) and 360 (Dir.Fernando Meirelles, 2011) are also Daniel’s work which with the same director.

The story of City of God is based on true story which let a photographer tells about how gangster, violence, drugs dealing happened in 1960s.

Most of the film normally start with a long establishing shot but in this film the editor decide to start with the beginning of the ending scene which is a fast cut of someone sharpen a knife, this cut will basically let audience expect that something cruel or illegal are going to happen next. After that is a chaotic scene with many different background music, it helps to introduce that there are many thing happening around. The close-up shot of chicken is used and try to show it as a character and the next shot is a POV shot of a chicken. It also can show the fear of a chicken. The chicken chasing scene gives an urgent and excited feeling by cuts to lots of different angle shots. The moment when the photographer see the character, the editor use slow motion to bring out the relationship between these two guys. The panning shots are used to show the photographer on a very dangerous position which between those hoods and polices. The next scene is 360 degree panning to change the scene to long time ago with a same character but younger.

So that’s how I like this editor cut all these chaotic scenes to create the excitement and attraction.

opening scene of City of God

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z4HUydk0kII

work cited
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/City_of_God_(2002_film)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Rezende

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Joe Walker is a film editor; He is 54 years old as of 2017. He’s been nominated for multiple awards including the Academy Award for Best Film Editing, BAFTA Award for Best Editing, Critics' Choice Movie Award for Best Editing, and British Independent Film Award for Best Technical Achievement. His work is most known for editing 12 Years a Slave, Arrival, Sicario, Blackhat, and an upcoming movie Blade Runner 2049.

Sicario is directed by Denis Villeneuve. The scene takes place 33 minutes into the movie where they need to cross a high value target to the US border that seems to be the brother to one of the most notorious drug dealer in Juarez, Mexico. To fully experience this scene, you need to watch from the beginning of the movie, where you’re being put in the shoes of Kate Macy. She was selected for a Joint Agency Operation near El Paso, by the time she agreed we still don’t know what we’re doing there as we were never informed about the mission we’re taking. Then 25 minutes into the movie we see where the operation is taking place which is across the border in Mexico specifically in Juarez. Now at this time we still don’t know what we’re trying to accomplish as we the viewers and also Kate Macy still have no clue what is going on. But before the operation began we had a little briefing and told several times that you are likely to get attacked near the US border. Fast forward, we’re in Juarez. Trying to extract a High Value Target, then try to get him across the US border. This is where the scene takes place. The border is congested with traffic and we’re stuck there becoming easy targets for the enemy. This scene creates tension as you’ve been told repeatedly that you’re going to get attacked near the US border. So you wait and wait and wait and we see a couple of cars with men and guns in it and the tension rises. Then the men in the cars make a move and we’re mobilize to keep it under control. That’s where the action begin that only last a couple of seconds.

The editor did a great job of just focusing only on the main character most of the time as he wants us to feel that you are just as oblivious as she is. It is a great editing technique where you don’t show as much information as you wanted it to be. The editor wants us to think what’s going on, what are we doing here, why are we here and that kind of editing makes the tension of this movie so rewarding at the end with just a couple of seconds of action scene.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yhHwgDAM8uU

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The Grand Budapest Hotel, 2014 ( Dir Wes Anderson )

Edited by Barney Pilling

The Editor Barney Pilling is a British television editor and film editor. He was also nominated for an Academy Award for Best Film Editing for the 2014 Film “ The Grand Budapest Hotel Dir by Wes Anderson “. Barney Pilling’s TV projects include Spooks, Life if Mars, No Angels, Hotel Babylon and As If.

My case study was a Film Dir by Wes Anderson The Grand Budapest Hotel, the story begins with a young girl reading a book written by a man, who tells us of a time he was staying at the once-lavish and now rundown Grand Budapest Hotel. At the hotel, he meets its mysterious owner, the once richest man in all of Zubrowka, Zero Mustafa. Zero, who’s a fan of the authors work, invites him to dinner, where he proceeds to tell the wide tale of how Zero came to be in possession of The Grand Budapest Hotel.

From the film of The Grand Budapest Hotel, it shows to us the Extreme Symmetry by Barney Pilling and Wes Anderson editing. It can see that the result was remarkable. It also not only shows us that Wes Anderson beautiful works, has visual OCD, and controls every frame of camera angle, focus and action, somehow show us how a true master of visual filmmaking lets the symmetry of his vision lead to everything from the mise-en-scene to the actor movements. It also show that meticulous planning was the key for Barney Pilling when Wes Anderson want his film Final Cut be so visually distinguished.

Work Cited

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barney_Pilling

https://vimeo.com/116449288

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KHAIRUL ADHA BIN KHAIRUDDIN1141128122Post Production 1 Case StudyLast Dinosaurs – Wurl Music Video (2016)Director/Producer/Editor: Harry Deadman

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Harry Deadman is the editor for the Last Dinosaur’s’ Wurl Music Video. I don’t know the detailed backgrounds of the editor. The director and the editor are the same person. In my opinion, for a short film or music video, it is okay for a director to be the editor but for a big budget film, I think we can’t be both right? This music video has a unique editing technique. Why do I choose this music video? Film. Noun: a motion picture; a movie. Verb: capture on film as part of series of moving images; make a movies of (a story or event). So, a music video is also consider as a film. The music video is about the feeling of losing someone after a breakup but from the music video’s point of view, it shows the singer’s love was being rejected by a girl

A line from the lyric, ‘I’m a victim of my own delusion’ and ‘she says I’m living in the wrong dimension’ shows the singer was being ‘friend-zoned’ by the girl who is out of his league. The music video is made to visualize the feeling of the singer after he went through a rejection from a girl that is far from his league or the feeling called ‘Wurl’ or ‘Jiwa Kacau’ in Bahasa Melayu. To make a music video, the crucial part is the storytelling and visualizing the lyrics. Both editing and shooting on location requires understanding of the direction from the music and the lyrics.

So Harry Deadman is both the director and editor for this music video, the technique that he used is jump-cut and he rewind the jump-cut back and forth. It makes the video look like a robot glitch. Actions can be seen in each and every frame of this music video. He used stock footages to make the music video more interesting for audience to see. He edited the music video using drum strokes as a guide to change between scenes or footages. He uses random shots or stock footages that visualize the feeling of ‘wurl’

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XiposuP7I3Y

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City of God by Fernando Meirelles is a dynamic masterpiece of Brazilian hood film and it was made in 2002. The most memorable part of City of God is its epic and powerful opening scene.

The editor of City of God is Daniel Rezende. Daniel Rezende is a Brazilian film editor. He managed to win the BAFTA Award for Best Editing and nominate an Academy Award for Best Film Editing 2003 for his contribution in City of God.

The opening scene of City of God shows a kitchen knife being sharpened in an extreme close-up. The knife sharpening’s shot and a black screen intercut repeatedly for more than 7 times in the opening. It makes it hard for audience to see clearly what’s the purpose of sharpening the blade,  only the sharpening sound (diegetic onscreen sound) can be heard clearly. The intercutting has successful in creating tension on the audiences and indicating violence is about to happen next. The scene continues with the crosscutting and close-up of alternate action shots, such as playing musical instruments (guitar, tambourine), peeling and cutting carrots and chicken being killed. The crosscutting depicts how often violence happen in that place. Eventually, it also allows the audience to tell violence is one of the key form used by characters in the film to gain and maintain power.

Unlike the other crime and drama films, City of God cleverly used fast cut editing in a few minutes of the opening scene to give audience a wide perspective what’s going to happen in the film with a few simple close-up shots is really fresh and compelling.  The stunning depiction’s examples showed in this film should really be analysed and practised by every filmmakers.

Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z4HUydk0kII&t=6s

Reference:

1)      http://www.slideshare.net/CosmoTeare/city-of-god-opening-scene-analysisdoc-34379443

2)      http://www.slideshare.net/hannahperry16/city-of-god-analysis

3)      http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0317248/

4)      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/City_of_God_(2002_film)

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THE WAILING 2016
Edited by KIM SUN-MIN

Content is the king especially in film-making, but in order to deliver it, it required more variance and embrace out more of the beauty of storytelling to make the film to be memorable. That’s when editor steps in to punch the film flow through a cut. For this case study, I would like to recommend Kim Sun-Min in her recent film involvement, The Wailing.

The Wailing itself, is an epic South Korean Film, that manage to go through Cannes Selection last year. This film with duration of 156 minutes was edited by Kim Sun-Min. She manages to pull off this horror movie with a combination of mind-puzzled cut and questioning dialogues that makes the story flow. The way it presents also distract us with subtext and defy us from discovering the truth.  We can tell it is a well-edited movie by only watch with visual. In addition, this film was well plan-edited because it may be best to watch it backwards. The general consensus leans toward Kim Sun-Min's incredible ability to tell stories through editing as well as the motivations behind her approach is a vital to make The Wailing stand out compared to other horror movie.

Kim Sun-Min manages to use every cut made serves a purpose and nothing is arbitrary. In the case of this shaman battle scene in the film, as is the case with the majority of action sequences, cutting for continuity is incredibly important to help the audience make sense of the story space and smack us with the horror feeling of pain. Judging from narrative that was made up till it’s filmed, it questioned us “Who to believe, what to believe?” Kim Sun-Min also involved in some honorable mentions of Korean film such as The Chaser (2008), The Host (2006) and Memories of Murder (2003).

REFERENCE
http://www.festival-cannes.com/en/films/goksung
http://www.filmcomment.com/blog/film-week-wailing-na-hong-jin/
https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/the_wailing/
https://123movies.is/film/the-wailing-14809/watching.html

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=43uAputjI4k

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1. Oren Sarch is the editor for the movie Pi, made in 1998

2. Ilmulhaq Nordin, 1132702509

3. Oren Sarch was born on April 13th 1969. His famous works was Pi (1998), Requiem For A Dream (2000) and also ad a producer for David Blaine : Drowned Alive.

4. He does mostly dramas as the editing is simple. His famous work, Pi does not approach a normal hollywood kind of editing that its hard for other directors to have him as an editor. Pi notable editing has been recognized with awards as best editing from Sundance Film festival, 1998, Independent spirit awad for best screnplay, 1999 and also gotham open palm award, 1998.

5. the movie Pi was not a normal kind of movie that audience would watch. some would say this movie is confusing and also disturbing, others loved how the story went. This movie is about a Mathemetician named Maximillian Cohen who is obsessed about mathematics and pattern that he went too deep that he is being targeted by various people as he has discovered a code for everything, which been said, sent by God. Oren Sarch has done 2 movies with the same director, Arnold Aronofsky. Arnold’s film storyline uses a a very weird technique in which he jumps scene but still relates and he uses a mashed up timeline in his storytelling. Oren Sarch edits those both movies in line with Arnold’s vision. The movie Pi is an abdsurd movie that disturbes the mind of audience. The character of the move, Max is tormented by his opsession that he needs medications to ease his mind. The editing in this movie brings the audience of what Max feels. Alot of shots gives suspense to audience without installing any fear of a subject by using loud screeches and super close up with items on hte surrounding of he scene. During most of the dialogue scenes, the editing is quite normal and simple with 2 shots and also over the shoulder shots, but scenes when Max is having his monologues and scenes when he is experiencing his mental torture, the editing was made with fast paced, super close-up shot and annoying loud noise, just to let people feel what Max feels.

http://putlockers.ch/watch-pi-online-free-putlocker.html

REFERENCES

http://aronofksy.tripod.com/piexclusive1.html - Analysis of “Pi” 1997

http://articles.latimes.com/1998/jul/24/entertainment/ca-6541 - Bold, Brainy Thriller ‘Pi’ Doesnt Stick to Formula, July 24, 1998, Kevin Thomas

http://theeditorscollective.com/ec-profiles/2013/4/30/2uj7uvtgamppd5lnmktsvdp4degmuk - An Interview With Oren Sarch

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0764930/ - Oren Sarch Directory

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James Herbert/Sherlock Holmes, 2009

Guek Kia Kheng

James Herbert is an editor for Sherlock Holmes and Edge of Tomorrow. He had been nominated as the best technical achievement for Sherlock Holmes in Evening Standard British Film Awards. He even won several awards for his editing of the Edge of Tomorrow.

Sherlock Holmes was being directed by Guy Ritchie. This fighting scene used the cut at the action makes every movement looks very natural. For example a punch into the man face, the movement of the hand continue to the shot where the close up of the man’s face being punch. The editor well use of montage the footage using slow-mo method to let the audience know what Sherlock Holmes is thinking before he beat the men down. It delivers a stronger impact of winning at the end when the men is down.

There is some smooth cut such as well using camera movement and subject movement as transition. There is a part before the slow-mo part, Sherlock Holmes beat the mans and the man moves to the left of the frame then continue with the shot of the audience expression with the camera panning to the left. The shot continue again when the camera pan to the right of the frame showing another audiences continue by a shot where the big man moves to the right in the frame. It won’t make the audience feel the cut in between.

Well the editor also uses wide shot for a few second to dissolve the intense feel of the medium shot of the both men fighting.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BMW5rPU_vY4

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For this critical analysis case study, the topics will be focusing on the editor’s style from movie called “Doctor Strange” directed by Scott Derrickson. Doctor Strange was released on October 20 2016 and it has become one of the most anticipate comic book movie of the year and this movie is the fourteenth movie that was produced by MARVEL STUDIOS. The film star Benedict Cumberbatch as Doctor Stephen Strange, Chiwetel Ejiofor as Karl Mordo, Rachel McAdams as Christine Palmer, Benedict Wong as Wong, Mads Mikkelsen as Kaecilius, andTilda Swinton as the Ancient One.

In this film, the film was edited by Sabrina Plisco and Wyatt Smith. From this video above this scene explain Doctor Strange confront his enemy for the first time kaecilius and his zealots attack the sanctum and from this scene the biggest money shot editing style that was used is vertigo effect. Firstly, what is vertigo effect? Vertigo effects is a effects that can be describe as push pull, reverse tracking shot and the others and usually this effect can be done by using wide lens, dolly and zoom. Vertigo effects create an unnatural and hallucination effect, something that we will never see with our own eye in everyday life, (Filmer). The vertigo effects was made famous by Alfred Hitchock (Vertigo, 1958)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wfbh3eHbakY

Works Cited

Filmer, S. (n.d.). Retrieved from http://www.studentfilmer.com/2015/09/02/the-vertigo-effect-master-the-mind-bending-camera-technique/

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The Gladiator ( Dir Ridley Scott , 2000 )

Edited by Pietro Scalia

The Gladiator directed by Ridley Scott is a fictional story about a loyal character named Maximus Decimus Meridius , a general of Hispano - Roman Army who is betrayed by the Son of Emperor Marcus Aurelius , murdering his father for the sake of throne . Maximus then was delegate becoming slavery . Throughout the slavery , Maximus rises through the ranks of the gladiatorial arena to take vengeance the murders of his loves one .

The editor Pietro Scalia is an Italian born who is currently living and working in America as an editor to many famous film in Hollywood . Few of names of his famous works are The Martian ( Dir by Ridley Scott , 2015 ), The Amazing Spider-Man 2 ( Dir by Marc Webb , 2014) and also Prometheus ( Dir by Dir by Ridley Scott , 2012 ) .

The scene that i would like to talk about are the fight scene that happen in the gladiator arena . At the beginning of the scene , it's started with an epic wide shot of the stadiums with the audience cheering for the event to start . It gives the sensational feeling to the audience of something great about to happen . The next shot is are the MC of of the emperor , showing the dominance of the character . Then after that the cutting of the film started to go fast pace by each seconds indicating the chaos that was happening , transiting from the shield of the gladiator to the moving horse .

Reference

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0768817/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gladiator_(2000_film)

Clips

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uQQZR-Skftk

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Mat Sentol - Mat Bond,Mat Spy,Mat Magic (1950-1070)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Clg1NbCH7aU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kad2KyHgAbg

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Critical Analysis Case Study

1.     Stephen Mirrione and Douglas Crise / Birdman (2014)

2.     Navinn Uma Suthen – 1161301560

3.     Stephen Mirrione is an American film editor. His initial editing work for films begun when he collaborated with Doug Liman, a graduate student from the University of Southern California School of Cinematic Arts at that time. Liman’s feature film Getting In (1994), Swingers (1996) and Go (1999) were all edited by Mirrione. Go (1999) was a homage to Akira Kurosawa’s film Rashomon (1950). Mirrione earned an Oscar Award for the film Traffic (2000) when Steven Soderbergh asked him to work on the editing process of the film. Later on, Mirrione edited all three Ocean’s film directed by Steven Soderbergh, Ocean Eleven (2001), Ocean Twelve (2004) and Ocean Thirteen (2007) as well as his 2009 film The Informant! and his 2011 film Contagion.Mirrione recently received an Oscar Award for Best Editing for The Revenant (2015).

4.     Birdman (2014) directed by Alejandro González Iñárritu, depicts a life on a middle aged actor, Riggin Thomson (Michael Keaton) on his life at a very promising time as an actor and a director on a Broadway show after leaving his acting ventures on the comic book superhero, Birdman 20 years back. He has his best friend to produce the show alongside with the help of his daughter, Sam (Emma Stone) who Riggin hired as the production assistant after coming out of drug rehab. Riggin’s initial problem in this story was to please a critic, Tabitha Dickinson (Lindsay Duncan) who will go to any extent to give the play a bad review. This will eventually close the show right after the opening night. Later towards the end of the story, we get to know that Riggin’s biggest problem is yet to come as he faces an amount of insecurities within him. These insecurities are usually manifested in the form of the comic book superhero, Birdman.

5.     Birdman, as it might look like a film that has no cuts in between is actually a film which presents all the cuts in a smart and flawless way. The techniques used which are Invisible Cuts by director Alejandro González Iñárritu, DP Chivo Lubezki, and editors Douglas Crise and Stephen Mirrione succeeded in hiding the edits, making it all appear as a single take. The methods in making an invisible/seamless cut is by filling in the end of one frame entirely with something black or a low lit and blending it with the beginning of the next clip. Similarly, this method can also be done by doing something like a whip pan.

6.     Birdman - Time Square Scene [HD](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7O8wiwu0elA&feature=youtu.be)

7.     (i) Stephen Mirrione. (n.d.). Retrieved February 13, 2017, from

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Mirrione

(ii)Renée, V. (2015, October 16). A closer look at the hidden editing techniques used in

“Birdman.” Retrieved February 13, 2017, from http://nofilmschool.com/2015/10/a-

closer-look-hidden-editing-techniques-in-birdman.

(iii)McAfee, R. (2016, November 2). 13 creative editing techniques every video editor

should know. Retrieved February 13, 2017, from Education,

https://blog.pond5.com/11099-13-creative-editing-techniques-every-video-editor-

should-know/.

(iv) Sheldon Chan (2015, November 1). Birdman - time square scene [HD] Retrieved from https://youtu.be/7O8wiwu0elA

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Shaun of the Dead (Dir. Edgar Wright)

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Rewan Ishak/KIL (Dir. Nik Amir Mustapha, 2013)

Mohd Shahrul Akmal B. Mohamad Shah

Rewan Ishak is a director, writer, editor and graphic designer, who caught the attention in our film industry in 2012 when he debuts his short film, Pasport Ekspres. He made the short film while still working in television world as a freelance director-producer for Channel [V], Diva Universal and E! Channel. Rewan was nominated in 4 categories for his work in critically acclaimed KIL - the Best Film, Best Production Design, Best Editing and Best Poster Design categories for the 26th Malaysian Film Festival in November 2014 and took home Best Poster Design, Best Production Design & Best Film award. His web film series ‘Road to Ramlee’ for Samsung Malaysia & Petronas Raya webfilm “Sampai Hati” which won Kancil Awards 2015 for Short Film (non-broadcast) & Film Craft. Here is the link to his showreel that showcase all his works till present. ( https://youtu.be/_YrptYugcqs )

KIL is a 2014 Malaysian film directed by Nik Amir Mustapha. It was written by Nik Amir Mustapha, Rewan Ishak and Khairulzaman Dzulkifly and produced by Tengku Iesta Tengku Alaudin. KIL is a story of a young, depressed man named Akil (Redza Minhat) who wants to commit suicide but he always fails in each attempt. One day, he notices a flyer that promotes suicide services and discovers an agency named Life Action Bureau (LAB). After discussing with the LAB consultant, Mr. Harun (Harun Salim Bachik), he hires the agency to kill him in an unknown manner and does not know who the LAB contractors (assassins) are or when and where the execution will take place.

This is one of my favorite scene in KIL. I really like how the visual really fits the song. The song is about how one can’t live a day without the one he/she loves and the scene is about Akil following Zara although they both are still stranger to each other. Interestingly, the editor somehow manages to make the scene less creepy yet, it was sweet and romantic. When Akil and Zara finally meet up in front of the elevator, the cuttings from medium shots (MS) to medium close-ups (MCU) are flawless. Smooth and when I watched the film, it felt immersive watching two people having conversation. I would like to quote from Mr. Kan Lume,

“The more extreme the change between close up shots to wide shots, the bigger the impact”

Another thing that I want to highlight in this scene is when he cuts from outside of the elevator into the interior scene in the elevator. I can only feel like I’m still following them. Basically, the cuts of these two characters having dialogues are flawless and I feel like I’m just there following and watching them talking. But, when talking about Rewan’s works, I have always love his color grading. I can recognize his works when I saw some certain clips with his kind of color grading. I will always look forward for Rewan Ishak’s works as he is the new generation local filmmaker that inspires me a lot.

works cited
http://www.passionpictures.com.my/directors?id=845
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KIL_(film)

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Cristina Suzanne Teruja Dengan Sentuhan Klasik

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Feveret scene aku dalam movie KIL.. :D Lagu dalam video: Lagu by Bo Bedroom Sanctuary https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t7yyXloobzs

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Arrival’s clip - https://drive.google.com/open?id=0BxfC9lqxndJ6dlR0dHl2THk4NHM

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The Maze runner (Dir. Wes Ball, 2014)

Edited by Dan Zimmerman

The Maze Runner (Dir. Wes Ball, 2014) based on the young adult post-apocalyptic dystopian science fiction novel written by American author James Dashner, 2009.

This film is edited by Dan Zimmerman who was edited many films such as the Alien vs Predator: Requiem (Dir. The Brothers Strause, 2007) and A Good Day to Die Hard (Dir. John Moore, (2013)

The scene I’m going to talk about is the maze running scene. This scene happens in the maze and they have only two main character Thomas and Minho. They walk till the dead end with the big locked door, but the maze will be changing the map and they must run out from the maze. This scene Dan was cutting the scene between the characters switching the maze changing the map and focus on the characters still running with the long shot till the medium shot for show the characters running with the impression of characters and how the maze changing to making the emotional excitement from the audience. He used the exciting sound combined with the yelling and breathing voice from the characters and the sound from the map changing also, it sounds like a rock smash and the mechanism is working.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c9Qg7vm0lSk

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Film: Miracle in Cell no.7

Year: 2013

Editor: So-Yeon Kim

In this case study, I will be talking about the most heartbreaking scene in Miracle in Cell no. 7 directed by Lee Hwan-kyung and edited by So-Yeon Kim. Miracle in Cell no. 7 is about a love between a mental ill father and his daughter. The father had been accused of murder and rape.

The most heartbreaking scene is when the father (Ryu Seung-ryong), who is sentenced to death going to separated from his daughter forever. The editor used the MCU and CU shot to bring the emotion to audience. At first the editor show the part where the father thanks his inmates for all their help.  The scene start from mid long shot and dolly in to his face. Then the editor showed the other inmates’ reaction, how they were so sad because the father cannot prove his right and sentenced to death. Next, the editor put the establish shot off the hallway of the jail which look very lonely as this father and daughter will be separated forever. The editor cut the shot to the other inmate’s reaction as he walked by with her daughter. Then they used the OTS shot between father and daughter, where his daughter reminded him not to worry about her and she will come to visit her father. The soundtrack used also help in bringing the sad environment in this scene. Then the editor put the MCU of the father crying for helped as he did not want to separate with his only daughter. The editor used the CU shot to show how his innocent daughter cried a lot not knowing what will happen to his dad.

For me, this story is one of the heartbreaking films I’ve seen so far. This is because the police took advantage of the father’s disability and accused him for the crime without investigating it. Director had shown that power really make people forget the rights and simply accused other people to cover their flaws. This film had made me think that is disable people had been treated this way all the time? Are they cannot prove their right?

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Hot Fuzz (dir. Edgar Wright, 2007)

Editor: Chris Dickens.

Chris Dickens is a British and Television editor. He is famous for his works on movies like Slumdog Millionaire (dir. David Boyle, 2008) Les Miserables (dir. Tom Hooper, 2012). This case study will mainly focus on his work on the movie Hot Fuzz directed by Edgar Wright,an action comedy inspired by over hundred action films. Chris has worked with Edgar Wright previously on the movie Shaun of the Dead (2004).

Edgar Wright is British director, screenwriter and producer, he is well known for his auteur style with a unique approach towards Comedy genre. Interesting composition of transitions and cuts in Edgar Wright movies create so called “Visual Comedy”. The central point of this case study is the analysis of Jump Cuts used by the editor Chris Dickens in one particular scene of the movie Hot Fuzz. The protagonist of the movie is a police constable Nicholas Angel is transferred to a small village against his will, the scene is Nicholas traveling from the city to the village.

According to dictionary.com Jump cut is an abrupt break in the continuity of a scene created by editing out part of a shot or scene. The cut can be used in very different ways and in various film genres, for instance, in horror movies it can be used to aggravate tension or create a jump-scare. In the scene of Hot Fuzz Chris Dickens uses jump cuts to show time passing when the protagonist moving to the village, in every cut the Nicholas appears to be in different places and in different positions, starting with him riding a taxi in the afternoon, following with him riding a train, arriving in the village in the evening and finally reaching the hotel at night. In addition to showing the time passing jump cuts are also used to show the condition of the character, e.g in one scene he is sleeping, in the other he is gazing the horizon in the train. Moreover, the entire sequence of the scene holds a comedic effect.

Works Cited:
http://www.dictionary.com/browse/jump-cut

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0225323/bio?ref_=nm_ov_bio_sm

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The Shawshank Redemption (Dir. Frank Darabont,1994)

Edited by Richard Francis-Bruce

For this critical analysis case study, I will be talking about a scene from The Shawshank Redemption (Dir. Frank Darabont,1994) and how the editing for the particular scene in the beginning of the film captures the audience’s attention. The Shawshank Redemption is a film about the journey of a successful banker, Andy Dufresne who is found guilty for a murder case which he didn’t commit and is sent off to the gloomy Shawshank prison as a punishment

The editor for The Shawshank Redemption is Richard Francis Bruce. Bruce got a job on The Shawshank Redemption over 30 of Hollywood’s best editor because the producer and he himself has a similar background in the film industry and took a liking to him. Bruce was nominated several times for the Academy Awards on film editing for his work on The Shawshank Redemption, se7en (Dir. David Fincher,1995) and Air Force One (Dir.Wolfgang Peterson,1997).

There were lots of improvisation that happened during the editing of the particular scene that I’m going to talk about which differs from the actual script. In the script, it is written that the scene will start up with Dufrene’s wife and her lover starts having sex. However during the editing of the film the director, Frank Darabont and the editor Richard Francis-Bruce decided to start with an establishing shot of the cabin in the woods and then slowly panning towards Andy who was in the car revealing him taking out a gun. I find that this improvisation adds up curiosity to the audience from the shot of the cabin making the audience think “what is it with the cabin” to the shot of Andy taking out the gun making the audience think “what is going on?” . Yes it will be revealed that the wife is cheating on Andy however instead of straight forwardly showing the shot of the wife making love to the lover that would appear to be just plain and boring, the director and editor decided to why not add some mystery and curiosity first giving a subtle thrill to the film. Not to mentioned how the choice of music used where the music is sort of a more calm and romantic melody but Dufresne is holding a gun and a beer giving a feel of danger and confusion to the audience.

Works Cited:

1.      http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0290358/

2.      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Francis-Bruce

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Skyfall (Dir. Sam Mendes, 2012)

Edited by Stuart Baird

Stuart Baird is a film editor, producer, and director. He is well known for his work on Casino Royale (2006) and Die Hard 2 (1990). The films he edited get nominated in quite a number of awards like Skyfall andCasino Royale get nominated in British Academy Film Awards for Best Editing Film Award during 2006 and 2012.

In this case study, I wanna discuss about the editing technique in certain scene in Skyfall directed by Sam Mendes. He is popular in James Bond films like Skyfall (2012) and Spectre (2015). In the scene which Q and 007 in the museum having a conversation talking about the painting, 007’s career and meet his new quartermaster which is Q.

There’s a lot of editing technique to talk about in this film but I wanna emphasize that L cuts can be seen in almost every film but I like how Stuart used L Cuts in this scene in Skyfall during the museum scene with Q and 007 to help lead the audiences along in the narrative by giving them the specific information in visually and audio. L Cuts are also used to make the conversation specific and give it a more deeper meaning, without that it is just a normal conversation between two person. When they are still talking, Stuart cut to the painting of the old warship on the wall while Q continues to talk, explaining what they are looking at and also correspond 007’s career to the warship in the painting.

Works Cited

Editor Stuart Baird, IMDb http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000829/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eTDlOvIt754

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Daniel Craig is back as Ian Fleming's James Bond 007 in Skyfall, the 23rd adventure in the longest-running film franchise of all time. In Skyfall, Bond's loyalty to M is tested as her past comes back to haunt her. As MI6 comes under attack, 007 must track down and destroy the threat, no matter how personal the cost.

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Video: Types of Editing in 127 Hours
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HoBVQTQTj64

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Margaret Sixel, who is in charge of editing in this action film, Mad Max: Fury Road (2015)directed by George Miller.Yeo Qi Yuan, 1151100238She is the female film editor that well known after she won an Oscar in this film. She experience edited documentary features, live-action short films, animated comedies, and action epics which is not much fast cut. Besides, she got a chance of edit this action film is because his husband, George Miller is the director in this film that like his film became different from the other action film. After I watch this movie, I felt this film is more dramatic elements and more dialogues compare to other action movies which more focus on action or fighting scene but in this movie it more to drama genre that help to develop the subtext of the character. She is very creatively to edit this film which really can gain the audience attention by using various type of editing technique, action cut, graphic cut, look off cut, sound bridge, zoom in and others. For example, the close up of eyes shot match with other character close up eyes too then shown the boom shot, that means using look off cut which can attract the audience tension at that moment.The story is about survival that showing the in the environment of ecological collapse and moral decadence which make the people there wanted vengeance, solidarity, home, and redemption for their life. The five wives are searching new home to raise their children that highlight the value of female empowerment which Imperator Furiosa drives the war rig along the journey with Max, and the Five Wives try to escape Immortan Joe and arrive in the safe zone, Green Place.Work Citeshttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imperator_Furiosahttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mad_Max:_Fury_Road

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Margaret Sixel, who is in charge of editing in this action film, Mad Max: Fury Road (2015)directed by George Miller.Yeo Qi Yuan, 1151100238She is the female film editor that well known after she won an Oscar in this film. She experience edited documentary features, live-action short films, animated comedies, and action epics which is not much fast cut. Besides, she got a chance of edit this action film is because his husband, George Miller is the director in this film that like his film became different from the other action film. After I watch this movie, I felt this film is more dramatic elements and more dialogues compare to other action movies which more focus on action or fighting scene but in this movie it more to drama genre that help to develop the subtext of the character. She is very creatively to edit this film which really can gain the audience attention by using various type of editing technique, action cut, graphic cut, look off cut, sound bridge, zoom in and others. For example, the close up of eyes shot match with other character close up eyes too then shown the boom shot, that means using look off cut which can attract the audience tension at that moment.The story is about survival that showing the in the environment of ecological collapse and moral decadence which make the people there wanted vengeance, solidarity, home, and redemption for their life. The five wives are searching new home to raise their children that highlight the value of female empowerment which Imperator Furiosa drives the war rig along the journey with Max, and the Five Wives try to escape Immortan Joe and arrive in the safe zone, Green Place.Work Citeshttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imperator_Furiosahttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mad_Max:_Fury_Road

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Captain Phillips (2013, Dir. Paul Greengrass)

Edited by Christopher Rouse

Christopher Russell Rouse was born on November 28, 1958 in American film and television editor and screenwriter who has about a dozen feature-film credits and numerous television credits. Rouse won the Academy Award for Film Editing, the BAFTA Award for Best Editing, and the ACE Eddie Award for the film The Bourne Ultimatum (2007).

One of the film that he had edited was Captain Phillips which base on true story. The story is about Captain of cargo ship faced with Somalia pirate, and finally he had to turned himself for help the crew.

The scene that I am talking is nearly to the end of the film but it is the scene that you are expecting to happened if you watch this film. Executed scene by sniper, the editor edited by Captain Phillips was hanging on the lifeboat and Somalia pirate is blaming on him. The editor put music of hopeless for showing, both were going to die. He cut the shot between Somalia, Captain’s face and Navy seals. They are waiting for the suitable time that all of the shot is “green” which means they have only one chance to kill three Somalia pirate at the same time for saving hostage’s life. Once commander said “stop the tow” he cut to the tow had stopped and faded sound music out of the film. Then he cut to the scene that the last Somalia is on the sniper position. Suddenly commander said “Executed”, gunshots sound happened then he cut to the blood is splitting to Captain’s face in close up shot. The editor hold the scene for awhile to showing the expression of the actor that he wanted to know what happened to him just now and he was so shocked about the gunshot, he might think that he was the person that was shots.

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The King's Speech (2010, Dir. Tom Hooper)
Edited by Tariq Anwar

Tariq Anwar, born in India, is an editor known for his work in The Madness of King George (1994, Dir. F. Gary Gray) and American Beauty (1999, Dir. Sam Mendes), in which he won 2 BAFTA awards for Best Editing. The editing in The King’s Speech also takes a lot of praise, having Tariq nominated for best editing in the Academy Awards in 2011.

In this scene of the film, King George IV (played by Colin firth) takes on some exercises to improve his speaking ability. This montage is juxtaposed with an intercut with a scene of Bertie (King George IV) having difficulty while making a speech in a factory.

This scene shows the outstanding knowledge, instinct and technique that the editor has. The montage makes use of different techniques to increase the immersion and pacing of this scene. The use of J and L cuts were used to blend shots together, accompanied by cuts by action and many graphical match cuts. The use of these techniques helped bring excitement and overall immersion to the scene.

An editor’s work is also to solve problems. When Director Tom Hooper felt that the montage was lacking impact, the editor looked for ways to increase its emotional impact. Tariq Anwar decided to intercut with a completely different scene (the speech in the factory) to contrast with the exercises. This juxtaposition gave the montage depth, showing the character’s determination to improve. The power of editing is shown in the many graphical match cuts (e.g. the cut between the shoes in the montage and the speech) and sound bridges (e.g. the linking of the work ‘mother’ and ‘manufacturing’) between the montage and the speech, which were all not originally planned by the director.

Works Cited
Editor Tariq Anwar Discusses the Editing Process behind the Award Winning Film "The King's Speech", Manhattan Edit Workshop
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cglnzQH7_bU

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A.I. Artificial Intelligence(Dir. Steven Spielberg)

Edited by Michael Khan

The development of A.I was originally began with Stanley Kubrick after he got the rights to Aldiss’ story in the early 1970’s, and later in 1995 he gave A.I to Steven Spielberg but the film did not gain momentum until Kubrick’s death.

The editor for this film is none other than Michael Khan since him and Spielberg love working together.

The scene that I’m going to talk about is the scene where the A.I, David(Haley Joel Osment) is in a very awkward moment with his ‘foster’ parents at the dining room. The scene starts with a shot of David alone inside a halo light. The scene last for about 5 seconds, just enough for the audience to start asking what he is looking at. Then Khan moved to a high angle, revealing David is actually with his parents. This shot last for 6 seconds or so to promote the awkwardness in this scene. Starting at the 0:30 mark, the dad drinks his water was emphasised and we moved to an OTS dad to see that David is actually trying to learn and try to negate the awkwardness.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HWUFOC_t-t4

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SICARIO, 2015

EDITOR JOE WALKER

DANIEL SAMPA 1141127972

JOE WALKER is the editor i will be talking about he was born in october 2 1963  and is an academy nominated editor .Joe started out as a sound  editor at BBCs film department at Ealing Studios , he broke into editing with a drama out of the blues .

In 2015 he has become the go to editor for director Denis Villleneuve. The collaborated on the  movie Sicario  a movie that follows a female FBI  agent that is enlisted by a government task force to help in the war against drugs at the border area between the USA and Mexico. The movie is dark and suspenseful and shows that world is grey with no side being the hero as each side does horrible things in order the accomplish their goals. And Joe walker through his editing is careful to add and create the dark tone of the movies.

My case study will be on this movie and how joe cuts one particular scene the ‘Time to meet God “ scene at the end of the movie where the mysterious character finally gets his vengeance for his family that was killed by the cartel. Joe has said in  an interview with Montereal Gazette that when editing sicario he did it without tempo music he edited it it in silence joe also stated that the movies he loves are dark and obscure. Which he does in this scene he uses classic editing tricks like the action cut where he cuts when the character seats at the table . He creates tension by holding keeps on a shot and also uses the a lot of the reaction shots of the characters he never cuts to what the characters see only their reaction

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This case study will be for the famous graphic match cut from the movie 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) directed by Stanley Kubrick and edited by Ray Lovejoy. The movie is about a space exploration to Jupiter.

Ray Lovejoy went on to work with Kubrick again for The Shining in 1980.

Widely remarked as a masterpiece, 2001 was the landmark film for science fiction genre, in my opinion. There is so much to talk about in terms of editing i.e. “The Murder of Hal” scene. But I will be talking about the graphic match cut in the beginning of the movie. I think this cut is the greatest cut in the history of cinema because it managed to squeeze in all of mankind’s evolution into one simple cut. There is an artistic value to this cut that made it not just a cut, but a wonderful use of a graphical match cut. It is also cinema's biggest time jump. From the beginning of mankind, to the very peak of it.

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Sully (Dir. Clint Eastwood, 2016)
Edited by Blu Murray

The film I will be writing about is Sully (Dir. Eastwood, 2016). It is directed by Clint Eastwood and the plot is based on the true events that occurred to US Airways Flight 1549, otherwise known as the “Miracle on the Hudson”.

The film’s editor is Blu Murray, who always works with director Clint Eastwood and had previously worked on films such as American Sniper (Dir. Eastwood, 2014) and Gran Torino (Dir. Eastwood, 2008) as assistant editor.

In this particular scene, Tom Hank's character Captain Sully is remembering a flashback. As the flashback transitions back into real time, a graphical match cut was used by the editor. The shot of Captain Sully's Jet that just landed on the runway cuts to a shot of a jet parked on a carrier, which that he was gazing at - the framing matches perfectly. This transition from flashback to real-time is a very smooth edit as it provides the audience with a sense of relevance - it does not feel as if it is just a random scene put in place. The edit also conveys to the audience that it is the sight of this jet that triggered Captain Sully's flashback. The use of a L-cut also contributes to the smoothness of the edit. In the initial shot, the jet on the runway powers down its engines. As the frame cuts to the shot of the parked jet, we can still hear the sound of a jet engine powering down for a brief moment.

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Assignment: Students will choose an established film editor for critical analysis and write a critical Analysis on Padlet. Since an editor’s styles often vary with the style of the film or filmmaker. Students will show and describe a clip of the editor’s work, which demonstrate an editorial point of view or technique.

Content:

1)      Title: Editor/ the film, year made

2)      Your name and student ID

3)      Introduce Editor

4)      Introduce film and director. Describe the scene/story.

5)      Describe the editor’s style and technique(s) used and discuss how that helps in terms of storytelling.

6)      Attach the short film clip or link to film.

7)      Cite all the works you referenced. Example: (Author), (Year), (Book), (Page). Or provide a link to the reference webpage.

Length: Excerpt/ clip must not exceed 2 minutes.

Requirement: Using the Padlet, Submit your essay between 150-300 words. Your name must be identical to that which appears on the class list (no nicknames).

Case Study Due Date:

Submitted using Padlet by 5 pm, Tuesday, 14 February 2016.