Discontinuous Editing In Sherlock Jr's Holding On

Many times in the film Terry Gilliam and Terry Jones use a technique called breaking the dramatic illusion. It is a technique when the filmmaker mentally pokes you in the ribs to give you a reminder that you really are watching a movie while other films do the opposite and try to pull you into the story.

Typical films following the classic structure rely on continuity editing, which establishes a logical timeline between shots, but art films provide a break from the norms of Hollywood editing and establish editor creativity. Films, such as Peeping Tom, also shift away from traditional camerawork practices, and these differences all contribute to the new subject matter seen in art cinema. The opening shot of Peeping Tom shows an extreme close up of a women’s eye, and as the shot progresses, the remainder of the first scene is from the perspective of Mark’s camera. This creates a sense of discontinuity for the audience, as they ponder the reality of the scene from the perspective of Mark’s camera. As the viewers realize the symbol of the camera, long silences are also used during the shots including Mark’s camera that further enhance any mental discomfort from the audience. The disturbing silence before Mark’s second murder on the movie set heightens suspense, and throughout the film, long silences are paired with the camera’s perspective to these moments of peril. Peeping Tom continues art cinema editing styles with the use of low-key lighting, which creates a dark tone across the film. Later on, low-key lighting is used as Helen discovers Mark’s disturbing films. As a result of the dim-lit shot, the viewers are unaware of the surroundings and feel suspense due to the possibility of Mark’s arrival at any moment. Through Powell’s use of unconventional editing and camerawork, Peeping Tom reaches a level of fright that eventually contributes to the viewers placing blame on technology, specifically, the camera. The film’s perspective from Mark’s camera associates the murders with technology, thereby, shifting the blame away from the human. Mark’s disturbing lifestyle is simply a product of his childhood under the lens of his father’s psychological film studies, and the

He shows splits the screen in half to be able to show two scenes at once. He also blends the line to split these scenes in half, which gives the movie a more mysterious feel to it. On the written slides, he occasionally repeats certain written slides to make the movie more dramatic. When the woman is trying to talk the man into running away with her, she says the same words again and again to show that she really wants him to come with her, and to show that she is good at persuading others. This technique was not used in the other movies that we watched in class.

In the BBC Sherlock television show, author’s effect is given through the director’s choice of casting, camera angles, and the twists. The director chose Benedict Cumberbatch to play Sherlock Holmes because he is known for different and intriguing roles. Due to his amazement at playing the role, he had made a great choice for Sherlock Holmes. Benedict is able to show Sherlock’s true genius and gives the character

Anther example is Tom is strangling peter to death. Minghella’s camera cuts to show us the interior of the cabin’s closet, the place where Tom Ripley has lived his whole life and the mirror within reflects the mirror over the cabin’s sink, each mirror holding a different angle of Tom Ripley. The boat rocks and the door of the closet swings, cutting off first one Tom Ripley and the slowly, deliberately, closing on the image of the remaining Tom Ripley, leaving the screen in blackness. It makes us see as if tom is shut out of the world, he's no longer a living

Cuts and transitions serve as ways of linking two different scenes together. They are meant to transfer the viewers’ attention to the intent of the director. But no audience will ever know the nonsensical direction of Mr. Uwe Boll. Tensions were hard to maintain, since the scenes were never in focus the action when it needed to be. The cuts were also jarring, because of the inconsistent of time spent on each one. Though the worst must be the transition

Editing tells the audience what diegetic material to look at and when. The story duration of the film is roughly around 24 hours. The beginning is

Film is a theme and character driven film that documents the progression of the two main characters from regular teenagers to violent criminals. Unlike most movies that document lives in a fly on the wall style, Film often shows the scenes from the points of view of the main characters. It does this by showing many close ups on their faces allowing the actors performances to be clear and visible to the audience and also by the editing and composition; shots showing exactly what the characters are seeing. This allows the audience to truly understand the characters and to provoke a personal emotional response. Here I will analyse the elements of film, describing techniques and why they are used.

Film techniques are used to represent clear images of what the filmmaker has in mind for the viewer. Mise-en-scène is a technique within filmmaking that displays what is to be filmed in front of the camera. Composition refers to the frame of the image that is being observed. Filmmakers utilize the space within each frame to bring attention to significant objects, characters, colors, backgrounds or lighting. Compositions can be symmetrical such that all contents are organized to convey a sense of unity, or can be asymmetrical where each side of the frame is different than the other, showing different depths. Composition can be seen in Joseph Paul’s film of There Will Be Blood through his use of minimal props and lighting throughout the scenes, to show a more gloomy and serious setting. The workers do not converse much with anyone nor interact in any other activities other than drilling for oil. This shows the importance that oil had served in the lives of the Plainview family and his

In, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, one of Tim Burton’s films, he uses editing techniques to stress the importance of certain scenes. For instance, when Charlie discovers a golden ticket, the use of shot-reverse shot is used multiple times from Charlie’s wonder struck face to the shiny golden ticket and back again. After already trying twice for the golden ticket, and finally getting it the third time, the fact the Charlie found it symbolizes hope for him and his family. This style is used once again in the movie, Edward Scissorhands. Burton not only uses these techniques for symbolization, but also for the application of characterization.

Film is a distinct form of art composed of a level of complexity made of many separate and interrelated elements that are carefully stitched together to form a story. The quick moving aspects of movies make this form of art difficult for even the most thorough viewers to completely understand and analyze – creating the component of invisibility in the art of film. This invisibility aspect is created by movie directors through transitional techniques which manipulates space and time before viewers. A common transitional technique used by directors is the fade-out/fade-out technique. Barsam and Monahan’s (2016) text, Looking at Movies, defines this cinematic element as one in which the last shot of a scene grows gradually darker (fades out) until the screen is rendered black for a moment and the first shot of the subsequent scene then fades in

In the recent year, new subgenres of movies has been created due to the exploration of new technologies and total reconstruction of the genre. One such genre that has been gaining a lot of popularity is “Observational Horror”. “Observational horror films are those that appropriate the aesthetic of observational documentary cinema’s handheld camerawork” (Raimondo, 2014, p. 66). This aesthetic of the camera playing a big part in the movie and the movie being shot by a character mimics how a video would be shot in a real situation, thus making the events of the movie more relatable and horrifying. It possesses many qualities that make the movies more engaging and frightening.

In The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, many of the cases Sherlock Holmes agreed to pursue did not resolve into acts of violence. He used his intelligence and detective skills to navigate through problems in order to complete his missions without eruptions of brutality. Although his methods to execute his assignments pleased the original readers in the 19th Century, they do not seem to spark the interests of the modern day communities of America. People often disvalue the importance of consequences because they wish to perform harmful actions, but do not want to engage with the suffering it brings, therefore, movie directors often contradict and rewrite originals into an ending they believe is appropriate.

In class, as we watched a film the professor pointed out the editing in the movie. I found the

The editing process of a movie is a very important part in which a film editor can proudly show his creative abilities. A lot work and effort goes into editing a film. Film editors can edit out a scene from a movie that they did not like. They can also shoot two scenes separately and then edit it together to make it seem as if it was shot together. The film editor works with many parts to make a finished movie; such as, sound, images and characters’ dialogs. Editing can be used in many different ways in a film and a film editor must edit all these aspects in a way that produces a coherent and smooth transition of the story.