Editing technique

After constantly deciding whether the piece should be a screendance or not, we realised that the issue we were trying to tackle related to the flow and movement of the film - how could we present it on screen to an audience that would keep them interested without movements from characters being too slow, rigid or less visually pleasing than the rest of the film, which is why we have considered dance.

 However, during a tutorial we decided to consider editing techniques rather than just the way we would shoot it, as a way of keeping the audience hooked. For example, doing it in a montage format would break up the imagery in a way that wouldn't require very long shots and could make the film more spread across a time period. It would also allow us to use more shots of other things in the film to portray meaning and provoke emotive responses from an audience which would be harder to do through continuity editing if we were simply following the character around. 

 We looked at the work of Kuleshov, an editor who famously experimented with montage editing, who used it in a way to keep his films fluid and interesting, yet still obscure and arty (a bit like the look we ae going for).

We then tried our own version of the Kuleshov Experiment in relation to our own ideas and concepts using our own experimental shots. You can see it here: