Editing Task

We began by uploading all the shots we had filmed to final cut pro. Once this was done we then marked each clip with alternate, interview, good or best shot type and added labeled markers to each clip to mark the action and a good place to cut into. We wanted to create meaning for our target audience by giving it the game show style through editing in an x factor style character montage in the first part, using a voice over introducing the show and giving the thriller introduction a theme song. It follows the normal conventions through the high paced action and constant danger of the show, reinforcing the thriller image is the killings that invoke thrills. We used match on action in order to create continuity throughout the thriller and make our editing techniques seem invisible. We used a montage right at the begining to give a preliminary view of the characters without it taking too long, this also helped show the game show style of our thriller. When the homeless mother jumps out of the bushes to attack another contestant, we use a match on action to give different angles and perspectives on it while keeping the editing invisible. Our thriller is successful because of its abillity to mimic the conventions of reality TV but also mix that with thriller style. We used the montage and soundtrack at the begining to create a high initial pace to the thriller that also safely secured it into this genre, the pace slows down when we see the introduction of the last shows winner to create feelings of empathy for her situation. We edited into this clip sequence by extending the length of clips and slowing the cuts between each shot which slowed pace as well as the much slower soundtrack we put to it. We built up our hero by giving her more camera time and by giving her character the title of winner from the last show. We juxtaposed two sides in one character, on the one side she was the heroine and liked by the audience but on the other she's running round mercilessly killing other contestants.