I am analysing the first two minutes of two opening sequences from the thriller films Shutter Island and Black Swan. I will analyse the editing techniques that they have used, how they are different and how our group could take inspiration from them.
The first film we analysed was Shutter Island. It starts out relatively calm, as the first shots of the titles fade in to each other, there is some text which fades in to the establishing shot to set the scene. The slow fade that was used in this editing process calms the audience. The first character is introduced through short shot durations which breaks the calming atmosphere. It shows him on a boat clearly having sea sickness. The main cuts that were used were to establish the change of location from the interior of the boat to the exterior. Slow pace editing was used during the introduction from the first and second character while they were in conversation. There is a cut to the next scene which shows a flash back.
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