E.D Combining Shots into Sequences

This is getting loads of shots together that relate and get put together to explain something, whether it’s a present shot and then a flashback they relate and are put into a sequence of shots. If shots aren’t put into a sequence then it can get confusing and the story becomes confusing and mixed up and the audience can’t relate or connect to anything. Combining specific shots into a sequence is done to help create a smooth flowing scene. Once all the individual shots have been corrected such as colour correcting so that they all match, they are able to be successfully edited together to merge one scene. 
By picking the right shots the editor is able to help the audience understand where the sympathy needs to be given. I believe this technique have been successfully used in the 2008 film Changeling starring Angelina Jolie; the narrative of this film is based upon a grief stricken mother who takes upon the LAPD when they stubbornly try to pass of an obvious impostor as her missing child. The audience are aware that this impostor isn't her child and the camera shots and editing techniques fully allow the audience to gain sympathy for Jolie.

A film is just lots of shots combined together to create a final edit and make it look how the film is intended. Majority of films are shot with the camera still however others like for example Cloverfiled is shot with a hand held camera style the shots are still put together in a smooth sequence but the shots are visibly shaky because of the movement of the camera. These kind of films I would imagine are harder to cut together to avoid less shake and jerk than is needed for the audience to still be interested and be able to watch it.


This scene from Cloverfiled shows exactly how the shots are hard to combine because it has to look like the camera is just cutting out or being turned off because it’s meant to be the people just filming continuously. So in this scene when the camera blacks out this is good editing because it looks as if the camera is breaking up and the image is being distorted. There is a lot of close ups a zooms as well this is so we can see facial expressions and stress the point that the film is using hand held camera