Task Eight: Transitions and Effects - DONE

Transitions and Effects.

In this post I will be explaining how transitions and effects can be used to manipulate the diegetic time and space in a film. Here are some examples of these effects and how they can be used in a film.

Transitions:
These transitions create a certain effect on the film and the viewers. These effects can not only make the film look more realistic in a modernised way, but it can give the viewers a different perspective and thought of the film. These effects include dissolves, cut, fade and wide which can each have a specific effect on the film weather the genre of the film is a horror, comedy or romance.

Graphic Match:
A Graphic Match is a cut in film editing between either two different objects, two different spaces or two different compositions. This is another way of manipulating the diegetic time and space of a film. For instance, from John Steinbeck's 'Psycho'. In the scene where the victim is murdered, Steinbeck cleverly links the water draining away then we gradually begin to see the victims eye, dead and lifeless. Both shots juxtapose strongly as it is a cross between the past and present yet linked through this graphic match effect.

Following The Action:
The Action Film is a film genre where two hero's (or mainly a villain) drive to a series of challenges which include fight scenes, violence and frantic chases. There is some amount of tie taken by these long fighting or running scenes and because so much time is taken the viewers can either be engaged or disinterested.

Multiple points of view:
Is a scene from the point of view from all characters involved. This gives the audience a chance to have some sort of connection with the characters in whatever situation their in, this can also add some sort of sympathy for the characters as well. Like the film 'Iron Man' for example, we see a scene where something happens to both characters and the camera cuts to one character then the other. This manipulates time and space of the film as it makes the audience have some sort of relationship with the characters.

Shot Variation:
Shot Variation is a technique where a sequence of images are used using movement. The advantage with shot variation is that it will keeps the audience's attention up and focused, this works well in action films. This grabs the audiences attention easily as they are distracted by the several images in that particular scene.

Manipulation of time and space:
This is when an object, environment or person is made to change over a period of time. Many films use this technique for the audience to be able to see this time changed visibility. In time and space there are three possible ways to present them:

• Time is expanded - This is when time is slowed down more than normal time 
• Real time - The time in the video is the same from when it was recorded 
• Time is compressed - The story takes a period of time and the film is compressed into an acceptable duration.

My Transition and Effect Film:

In my film I included different transitions and effects to enhance and create suspense in my film. To begin with, I wanted to make sure that as a result I didn't overdo the use of transitions and effects in my film so for this reason being there were only particular parts in my film that I edited the effects in. For instance, the first scene of my film are of the two girls walking into a psychic's shop concerning their safety on a specific day. In this scene I included two transitions and effects, I firstly edited the scene where the psychic looked into their future and then the scene where the psychic saw the future of the two girls.

When filming this scene I knew that I had to create a certain effect so that when editing it I could have the chance to expose that effect even more for the audience. For this reason being I decided to focus on the part where I zoomed into the psychic's crystal ball. To give the effect that the psychic is looking into their future, I included some sparkles and the more the camera zoomed in, I blurred it. This transition makes the viewer begin to gain curiosity in what is about to happen next. Moreover, the way in which the viewer is eager to know what will happen next, is the same way the two characters in the film are attentive.

Straight after I added the transition and effects I needed for that scene, I edited the scene where the psychic could see into the the girls' future. To remind the audience that this scene is different, in terms of the present and future, I edited the colour. I used the black and white edit because I wanted to create some sort of thinking from the audience.

Engaging the viewer/creating space: Task Seven: DONE

Engaging the viewer/Creating space:

The pace of editing can create a huge effect on how the viewer reacts depending on the pace of the movie. For instance, not only will it grab the viewers attention but they will feel engaged in what their watching too. This would also mean that more people would be willing to watch a movie that could get them engaged so well, so it would attract more viewers.

The speed of editing process can have an emotional effect depending on the speed of the film. For instance, a fast edited film would create a very jumpy reaction whereas a very slow speed in a film would make the viewer/s feel very emotional and sympathy.

Cross cutting is another element which creates suspense for the viewers because of the expectations that it creates. This cross cutting technique is normally quick and short which adds to those effects on the viewer.

On the other hand, a cutaway effect may create a different reaction from the viewers. A cutaway shot is an interruption of  a continuously filmed action by inserting a view of something else, now this may confuse the viewer as to why there may be two completely different shots being shown without any hints but then would engage the viewer even deeply to find out what these two who's may be about. Moreover, developing drama in a film is one of the main things that holds the viewer's attention up.

My Cross Cutting Film:



My film began calm and with very little noise by the teacher walking into the classroom and introducing herself to the students. I then began to create some sort of tension between the teacher and the student by creating a little disagreement between them both. By having this argument so early into the film, it gives the audience a thought of what may happen next between these two people in such a small classroom.

Our next scene is where the teacher walks out of the classroom and the two students are misbehaving inconsiderately without the teacher knowing and we see that they seem to be very comfortable and almost forget that their teacher may be walking in any minute. This is where the tension begins because the audience fear that they will get caught in the trouble that they are creating whereas for the teacher she has no idea that her students are behaving in such way. So in this scene, to add suspense and tension for the viewers, I included a song which would add tension and make the audiences heart pound continuously, waiting for what will happen next and the song did exactly that.

The next scene is how the students reacted knowing that their teacher is just about to enter the classroom so to create more exaggeration in that particular moment, I added a slow motion effect when both students were jumping and rushing to their seats. I did this because I didn't just want the scene to end without leaving any impact on the audiences reaction, I wanted them to have some sort of unexpected reaction.

Finally to end my film I took a shot of the teacher walking into the classroom calmly, without suspecting a thing and to show all three of the actresses, I stood in a certain angle to see the student's faces and the teacher too.