Andreas Daily Blog

Hello Everyone,
Aside from the usual good good morning from Mr. Rivers we took a break from extensive research for one day. Along with a couple of healthy classroom reminders like Senor papers and to keep up daily blog posts and be reels we dove right into today's topic which was editing of film. We opened this with the master of classic horror himself Alfred Hitchcock. We were then shown a short video of Alfred in all of his large fat baby-ness talking about the effects of editing scenes. Then video then show Alfred reacting to a mother and her child with a very unsettling smile at the end, but then Alfred then explains how if the image were changed what the audience would take away from the scene from the scene. Furthering that idea of how artistic choices from the director/ editor can effect the narrative of the text as a whole.
Coming to the conclusion that edits have an implied meaning and it is because of this implied meaning we can develop character, create a linear sense of time (cause and effect) and continuity of a location. Outside of the classroom I chose to relate today's lesson to one of my favorite films Inglorious Bastards. The scene I chose in particular is a rather violent scene but all in all a good scene and one that I can tie today's lesson to. In this scene several of the main characters are all sitting at a bar undercover as Nazi officers in a room surrounded by actual Nazi's. Thanks to the clumsiness of one of the characters they are given away, because of this the scene erupts with gunshots but the shootout is only about 6 seconds. The sequence was meant to be fast  because the director wanted to disorient the audience and make the audience feel what the survivors of the shootout are feeling.