Editing the Film and 'The Shinning'

A bit late with the blog, sorry :( technical difficulties .... any ways

Monday
Last Monday my group and I edited film. First I cut up footage on the computer into separate shot we could use. I did most of the editing work and it took a very long time, they got more involved towards the end though. I was glad that we we took lots of shots from different angles at the bit when Daniel enters the room because i was able to cut up and use all of it to make his entrance look interesting.The extreme close us and the cut In's were the most powerful shots. The close up show the expressions of the boy's who where playing the cards, faces, and the cut in like When Daniel gives me money, show the sly actions. Daniel's character wears a hat which is an important prop because there are lots of shot of his him from different angles but his face is never shown. This creates tension around his character. While editing I notice that we didn't leave enough time at the the end of the shots and I will remember this for next time. I also think that that next time we should make lots of point of view shouts. Unfortunately we didn't finish editing the film, however I believe that our film contain allot of tension.

Wednesday
Last Wednesday we watched a "The Shining", a thriller based on the Stephen King's novel of the same name. We was watching it to observe how Stanley Kubrick, the director, created tension. There were three main characters in the film who mainly separated and the scenes moved to each of there surrounding and also their point of views. When we were seeing from their point of view it was mainly long shot then slow zooms. The characters were meant to be suffering from isolation in a big hotel which is haunted. Tacking shots are used to follow the character movements. There some bit of the film when the sun is riding around in his tricycle and the camera is tracking behind him, The sound the tricycle makes and the fact t that we are following and creates tension. Lots of close up are used to view face reactions. Such as when Jack kills the Cook and after its shows his freakish smiling face expression. Stanley Kubrick also chose to use lots of classical music to create tension. My group and I thought that this was a good technique, however very annoying because the music was sometimes very annoying and the most noticeable thing. I dint think that outside music should be too noticeable. Overall I don't think it was a very good film because i found allot of it quite ambiguous especially because i couldn't trust none of the characters point of views and therefore couldn't make out who was seeing the truth, looking at past events or hallucinating. However it was good film to pick up techniques on tension. :)