Planning editing styles - Miss Georgiou

There are various ways in which editing is used within the thriller genre. Editing in the thriller genre usually contributes the mood or feeling in a particular movie, it also makes the film and opening sequence both more appealing and engaging for the audience and directors. Without editing within thrillers, three main aspects in thrillers would be absent which are shock, suspense and silence. 

In our thriller clip our group included a jump cut in our second frame. Jump cuts are used when the film suddenly focuses on something. We used this to speed up the time taken when we show the girl walking deeper into the forest, we also wanted to speed up the pace of the scene and a jump cut is a good editing technique to do so. By speeding up the pace, the audience are left feeling on edge as they aren't given the time to process what is happening. This therefore connects the audience to the victim with sympathy as their only focus is on her and what may happen to her, by leaving the audience trying to figure out the plot this creates tension and suspense due to the fear of the unexpected.

Throughout our opening thriller sequence there is going to be many straight cuts used, this is the most common type of edit, the straight cut results in one image being replaced instantly by another. We used straight cuts as it is an easy way to get from one frame to the next.