Unit 9: Editing - Analysis

Task: Analyse 3 film clips. Please use the framework below:

Analysis 1 (1900)
Analysis 2 (1960s Classic continuity_
Analysis 3 (2010 onwards focusing on alternative continuity )

Use the following questions to help:

Title of film
directed by
Target audience
Genre
Editing techniques used and the effect on the scene


1) who has made it and what techniques have been used to make it
2) who the audience is
3)explain whether the type of editing is appropriate to the audience
4) What is the impact/effect of the technique used?
5)Has this technique been influenced from previous earlier techniques that you have studied?


For each analysis Film fplease use the following format:

1902 - A Trip to the Moon / Le Voyage dans la lune -
Directed by George Mieles
Target Audience: Fans of his previous work, sci fi films. These editing techniques helped to
Genre: Sci Fi. This film was the first science fiction film and therefore set the expectations of what was expected in these films. 

Editing Techniques used and the effect on the scene:

• The editing techniques used in this clip are editing transitions like fade in and fade out to introduce new scenes, overlapping dissolves and stop motion photography and moved filming from mundane single action shorts to narrative. There is little to no narrative in this film. 
• He also used trick photography with superimposed images, dissolves and jump cuts, he depicted many memorable, whimsical old-fashioned images: The effect of these helped to make the film more realistic.
• Melies uses a dream sequence with a dissolve. The effect of the dissolve helped to show the audience that it was no longer the reality of the character. 
• Melies also uses a jump cut shot for a a scene in the court of. The sense of wonder that the film illicit comes from Méliès' intricate set design, consisting of painted backgrounds, animation, and in-camera effects.
• He developed the art of special effects, including double exposure, actors performing with themselves over split screens, and use of the dissolve and fade. 
• He also pioneered the art of film editing. The sets or scenery backdrops in the film are simple, painted flats. It has all the elements that characterize the science-fiction genre: adventurous scientists, a futuristic space voyage, special effects such as superimpositions, and strange aliens in a far-off place. 
• If Melies used cut in the action shots this would of helped to progress the narrative along. However it would have generate a completely different effect. If Melies had used parellel editing this would have shown two alternate scenes happening at the time to either mis lead the audience on the narrative or to help show the narrative to generate a meaning between characters. This would not have been appropriate in this clip as there is not two storylines happening in the film.