E.D crearing motivation

This is important when editing and making a film because the story needs to have stability and the edit needs to influence and have effect on the audience. To create a motivation edit you need to make the continuity look smooth making sure nothing looks jumpy and the position for the shot must be the same each time unless the angle or anything is meant to be changed. This is a challenging job for editors to try and show through the editing what the director and production team wanted to show. It’s all about keeping the audience interested 'motivated' basically so they enjoy the film and don't notice the editing, if they do it could make them distracted and not enjoy the film. Editing together montages is a good way to create motivation because it can make audiences get a feel about someone in a quicker amount of time so this can make them feel like they understand more because you’re letting them know little things that important. Lots of cuts in a certain scene will create motivation too, not all the time but if there is a conversation going on then maybe one person’s face to a mid-shot and a long shot of where they are back to their faces again rather than having one long shot. Cutting from one scene to another or one character to another will persuade how the audience feel they will react positively or negatively to the film. For example the clip below from the film Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows part 2 shows characters all concentrating on Harry Potter which persuades the audience to feel scared and anxious for the safety of Harry Potter.


It is also important to cut at the correct time to enable the narrative of the story progress and develop further. DW Griffith introduced narrative and it is very heavily used in the Harry Potters films because of the complex story and plots. It is also important to choose the correct pace of the cut depending of the genre of the film and also particular characters. For example; a romantic comedy genre film the audience are made to feel sympathy and emotion for the main character so the cuts of this character will be slow so that the audience are able to learn more about them.