Editing And Titles

Editing And Titles

Today Charlie and I discuss her ideas about editing and titles, we figured out who would be what role, and went off our seperate ways to write on our specialty subject, the writting below is what she wrote for our preproduction.

After watching many traditional and contemporary films noir's I noticed the main feel of the editing was a fast cutting pace to emphasise the tension and to keep the audience on edge throughout. They create an intense atmosphere giving a stylistic appearance and to heighten the emotions of the viewer.We want the flashbacks to start by showing most of the clip to reveal, and then start to decrease the length of them to make them appear almost frantic showing that the actor is feeling emotional and all the memories are slowly coming back.The cuts between the flashbacks and other shots we will use a sweeping transition which was blurry to contrast between what is actually happening and what is a just memory, moreover to demonstrate the change in location. By editing all the flashbacks to be in black and white this will show that she is recalling her deep rooted memories; another way we can convey this is making them quite grainy to show they were from the past, she only can recall flickers from the day. By putting these in black and white, it is using a traditional film noir feel to the sequence as they tend to be filmed in this way, especially the earlier ones, because of the equipment that was available to film with in. I don’t want the transitions to be that noticeable and dramatic, I don't want them to look strange and out of place.After much trial and error with our storyboard, we have decided to place the titles at the end of the sequence, the main title ‘Imposter’ will be shown just before the last clip, i don’t think they should be during the sequence as this could break up the action and the audience could lose interest. All the titles will use the same font to connect all of them together; this continuity is used in a range of films, not just film noir. We will use a black background with white stylish writing, this will link with the film noir theme.