Research into Editing Styles-Miss Georgiou

Researching into Editing Styles-Insidious

In this blog I will be discussing the different editing styles that are in the certain scene of Insidious and how they are used to create an effect to the audience. Editing styles are used to make the film exciting and to add a lot of different codes and conventions within the thriller genre that inevitably makes the film of a better standard. 

Slow editing is used at (0;55-1;04) to imply a dramatic impact on the female character sitting in the chair when she describes her experience about seeing a weird and shocking face at the time, Insidious use this clip to juxtapose it together at a considerably slower pace to create suspense and shock when the face appears at (1.00), The director of insidious uses slow editing to make this specific part of the scene feel scary as it's great chance to build tension for the audience while waiting for the shock. Slow editing is conventional to the thriller genre because it allows the action to take a little exchange of time to be actually revealed leaving the audience in more suspense than normal time would have.  Slow editing is conventional to the thriller genre as it introduces a large amount of anticipation and suspense in to what could happen in the film.

Timing of shots at (1;26) when the ghost walks past the male character this is edited slower to start off when the male actor is walking through asking hopelessly for a response from 'hello' than when the ghost walks past with the eerie sound effect going on at the time this gives the audience a perspective of the current dark surrounding that he is facing. This timing of shots is used by the Insidious film director to produce doubt and confusion for the audience because they expect something to happen at this stage. The timing of shots is conventional to the thriller genre through the speed of the quick shock that is made in this scene, it is also expected to make the audience think as to what could happen later in the scene.

A jump cut edit is used at (2:30) to empathise the sudden focus on the spooky red figure to scare the small young aged child. The jump cuts purpose at this point of the scene it to try and make the audience nervous and intimidated by the red masked terrifying figure, there is also a very quick editing style added to this point to make the audience feel in a state of distress and this is conventional to the thriller genre through the rapid change of speed from the killer to the victim also in this situation the small child is most commonly used as a victim to make the audience feel much more surprised than they would be if it was a regular adult and this is conventional to the thriller genre as it gets the audience astonished and surprised to what has happened.  

A montage is used right at the end of this Insidious clip to create excitement when the details of the shot are speed up by the killer getting hold of the victim, the quick editing of the montage implies tension and anxiousness to see what happens next in the scene. The audience will feel as if their heart is pumping at a fast rate because of the killer getting hold of the victim but they will also feel excitement at the state of both the killer and the victim. A montage is conventional to the thriller genre because it creates a special effect for the audience and to show the audience the serious act in the scene, it engages the audience into the insidious scene a lot more than regular slower paced scene and it is conventional to the thriller genre as a montage creates a reaction to the audience from the character actions.

To conclude I believe the use of slow editing is something we should definitely include in our own thriller sequence as it creates a lot of different elements that are important when making a thriller film for example the suspense that is created by slow editing is what is vital in the thriller genre.