E.D Providing and Withholding Information

This where the editors try and make the narrative more dramatic by giving information or taking away information by showing its true. I have seen this use in a lot of crime films where they lead the audience to believe that someone is the murderer and then take information away or give you information that proves it could not be this person so this keeps the audience thinking right until the final conclusion hen everything is revealed. Some programmes give you the information you need and so only the audience and the person know who is responsible, whereas others show the crime or scene and then the audience along with other characters have to learn together what actually happened. When we are giving bits of information through the film it engages the audience because they feel part of the film and like they are part of it working out exactly what happened. Most editors use the withholding information technique rather than providing because then the climax. A lot of drama and TV drama editors use this.
In this clip from the Time Travellers Wife we see the little boy in the car time travel for the first time in the film in the first scene. This is giving the audience the information that he can time travel before anyone else knows in he film. His mother doesn't know what’s happening to him only his older self and we know, so this is an example of providing information.

In this scene from sorority row we see Claire one of the characters die, this scene shows the editor withholding information because the audience still doesn't know who the murderer is and there is only a few girls left to kill. Each girl is ticked off and killed and we don't find out who the murderer is until the a few scenes before the end.