Post 18 - Media Language - Editing

Editing in a film is crucial, both the cuts of the shots and any special effects be it visual or sound. It brings a film to life and emmerses the audience into it.

Again I looked at the film 'True Skin' to analyse the CGI and camera effects.



The concept of the film is based around cyborgs and robotics and thus relies on a lot of CGI to make it work, the graphics of the film are high-tech, consisting of lots of bright lights and neon lights, flashing images and hologram projections. I like how the editing of this also relies of focus, from the picture below, you can see that the hologram symbol is out of focus and the focus is instead on the character, the symbol still holds prevalence at the from of the shot, creating the universe where everything is like this.

Through the CGI the ending also connects to the audience, through the finger print and 'click here', whilst it doesn't get audiences to do it, the concept of placing it as a POV of the main character builds the connection to the audience.

The editing of the camera shots is also something I noticed, the speeding up of multiple shots added to the effect of a non-human world and a non-human character, the blurring in this part also was noticable, and is something I feel we could use in our own film.