Greg Annetts Editor

Our film is a British Crime Action Thriller sequence. In the clip the audience are shown the development in which one of the main characters finds out about the betrayal between two friends that are in the same gang. After seeing his friend/gang member with his girlfriend he chases him and eventually catches him up and says 'its not about her blad, its about respect' a punch to the stomach of the cheating gang member leaves him laying on the winded.

My role in our group was editing the filming we had done and putting it together so that it flowed well together making it an exciting sequence to watch. As a group we decided we wanted the film to be in an urban setting as our genre of film was a crime thriller. To make our film more realistic to the genre we looked at different movies to get ideas from these to help us with the different camera shots, editing skills and sound. Some of the movies that we looked at for ideas were Kidulthood, Adulthood, Snatch and 4321. After looking at clips from the films we decided that Adulthood had some of the best ideas that we could use, from one clip of a chase scene we saw that this was an idea we could use easily and then adapt to it. This is the clip we looked at;


From this clip we decided to use the slow motion that featured in the film sequence,in our film we used this when the main character is chasing his friend through a point of view shot which was slightly distorted to give a more effective view of the character running.




To do this in our clip I needed to highlight the clip, then go to modify, speed and then change the speed until we found the best motion, we also distorted the picture to make it more realistic of the point of view shot that was used.
Another idea we developed from the film was the betrayal of two friends. We felt that this would be perfect to set up the reason for the chase scene, the difference we used was to use a Femme Fatale in which she is cheating with the main characters best mate who is also in his gang, this is the development of the film.
We used a built up area to set the scene building up the reality of the film. As the genre of the film was a crime thriller we wanted to use match on action shots when the chase sequence happened so that the shots went into one another perfectly to keep audience interested, in order to do this I needed to cut clips down in Final cut express so that when the main character is running after his friend who has betrayed him you can see that they fit perfectly together keeping the suspense of the scene.



We had at first decided to use a gun locking so the main character was unable to kill his friend who was cheating with his girlfriend but then knocked him out with the butt of the gun followed by a scene in which the main character would bury him, but the cheating friend would wake up and run away.
To do this I had planned to fade a point of view shot of the victim in and out to give the effect he was blacking out and then when he came back around do the same but have blurred vision leading to the point of view shot re-focusing. As we didn't do this I only did the fade out of the victim by going to effects and fading in and out effect. I felt that this was a good end to the scene as it makes the audience wonder what will happen next.

this is the last clip before the final blackout of the victim laying on the floor.
Thought the editing I wanted to keep the audience interested in the film and not bored of what was happening, to do this I tried to make the different shots flow together so there wasn't any gaps and so that the suspense though out the chase scene would keep the audience on the edge of their seats, wondering what could happen next.

After my class mates had viewed our groups film they made comments about the different elements in the film. All of the comments made about the editing I had done were positive, they included 'Parallel editing builds tension well' and 'good pace of shots'. The only issue that came up was that one of the close up shots showing the cheating girlfriend was very short in comparison to the males close up.

Overall I felt that our film overall was a great success, as a group we worked well together and had no confrontations over how to do the film. As a whole I felt that my editing of our film went extremely well and wouldn't change anything I did except for the one clip in which the close up was cut too short and should have been longer as when it came up it was only for a second which didn't then make the whole of the film flow, except for the one clip I thought it all flowed well into each clip and was a great success.