Today in class we started off with Mr. Rivers reminding us that all blogs are due by Wednesday 11:59 p.m. Besides that, we will not have there is still the literature review to be graded and then that's all the grades for this marking period. From here we went reminded ourselves the editing purposes in terms of narrative, thematic, and practical. Narrative editing helps put together the story and develop the characters, plot, and and conflict. Thematic editing develops the overall theme, tone, style, and genre. Finally practical editing is used to make the movie smooth, preserve continuity, and have the movie make sense in the world in the sense that you can’t actually show someone being stabbed (Psycho) so quick cuts back and forth can make it seem as if the person is being stabbed. We continued on and started analyzing film discussing the effectiveness of the single shot in Goodfellas. In the analysis we discussed how the one shot develops the narrative by showing that the main character is very important, walking right into a top club. It develops theme by showing how good it is to have power like the main character, and it shows the practical effect of the audience feeling included as if they are also walking into the club with the main character. From here we looked at a clip with many cuts in Iron Man 3. We see Robert Downey Junior in a fight scene with quick cuts. The narrative elements of the editing were that we see a major sense of danger for the main character. The thematic effect of it was that the quick cuts develop a sense of urgency in the scene, it is quick and chaotic. Finally the practical effect is that there are cuts for safety because neither actor can actually be hit in the face. Finally in the last minutes of class we looked at a clip from The Protector that uses no cuts in a fight scene. All these clips are on classroom if you want to watch them.
Relating this to outside the class I was thinking back to all the movies I've seen and the various cuts in them and the reasons for them. It made me see that almost every single action will use quick fast cuts in fight scenes for practical reasons to not have the actors be injured but also to increase the pace of the movie by making it hectic. I would bring up specific examples of this in movies such as Fight Club or John Wick but all the YouTube results are blocked.
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