Editing Techniques

One editing technique which I suggested we use in our film opening was the use of chopping up a clip and changing the order of them so that the figure in the shot appears to be twitching.







My first suggestion was that we would use it on the figure walking in the beginning of the film sequence making it appear like it jumps quickly forward and back.

I then suggested that we associate the cuts with the villain, and every time the villain appears, or something occurs in association with the villain we would use this technique.



As the villain was intended to be a figure of our main character's imagination, we wanted to use the technique on some of the shots of the girl.

We started to use it on the rotation of her head as she woke up and we really liked the overall affect. It looks like a twitch and represents a glitch in her mind telling the audience there is something wrong with her mentality.

I have since noticed this technique used in various other horror films such as The Grudge to replicate twitching in the same way we intended.