Task 7 - Creating Pace

 In all films there are many different scenes, in which the pace of the scenes are all different and have a different dration, therefore you must create pace by cutting the scenes in a way to meet the action in the film. If an audience should feel anxious and suspense then the editor would make sure the scenes are short, this would be used in an action scene, whereas a long scene would make the auidence feel more relaxed and would usually be used. However there was a film that didnt need any editing at all, this film is called 'Russian Ark' . Also when there is a trailer the editing is very fast as they want to show you as much of the film as possible, such  as in the hunger games trailer there is 37 cuts in the edit in 36 seconds, as shown below.

   

Also when creating pace the video editors would cross-cut between scenes to make the audience sieve that the two scenes that are being cross cutted are happening at the same time and both scenes are related, they are also used to go back to the past as a flashback, and it can be used to create drama and tension by keep cutting inbetween two scenes, an example of where this is used is in scream where the scenes kept cetting cross-cutted between casey going to die and her parents coming towards where she is so they might have rescued her. Another thing that an editor will do to create pace is by usng a cutaway. A cutaway is used to point out a piece of detail that an editor wants the audience to recognise without interferring from what is going on in the current situation.

The video above is my example of how you can create pace and engage the audience, i have done this by how i have cross-cutted between two people walking to get the phone first gradually making the scenes shorter to engage the viewer as it builds tension as the audience are wondering who is going to get the phone first. Also i used a cutaway in my video as we zoomed in on the phone so that the audience will know the phone is important as we are pointing it out in the video, so it grabs the audiences attention. The use of creating pace in my video  improves my video a lot as if i did not create pace then it would not engage the audience as they might find  the video boring and also the video might seem pointless as if there wasn't creating pace in the video then it would not be enjoyable as you would not be able to use cross cutting to see where the other person is at that time.