EDITING VIDEO BLOG TASK

 In the beginning of the scene it begins with a man in a room holding a duffel bag and then sliding it to the outside the room. This transition is a straight cut because it happens so fast and we are just focusing on the bag and not the smooth transition of the camera switching the angles and locations. As the man is jogging with the duffel bag, the camera follows him without making any cuts so that we as the audience focus on the man and the bag. Then when he is passing the bag to the other guy there is a wipe transition. This is because we go from seeing the man and one part of the room where we barley saw people to then the camera moving across the wall to the other side of the room where people are crouching and hiding under the desks frightened because of the bank robbery that is going on. Then there is also another straight cut to where we go from being in the bank to seeing the outside of a car in the street. The pace of which the scenes are being cut into is quite fast. This would be so that we do not spend too much time looking and thinking about one scene. If the cuts are quick and simple it makes us as the audience focus on what it actually going on. These fast paced cuts also suggest action and excitement. As the audience, we then start to see a montage of straight cuts through out the scenes. Although there is a lot of tension with in the scenes, the montage of straight cuts could have been there to indicate or propose that something normal could happen next but instead it did not. We see a lot of normal people in a crowd then all of a sudden men start to put on masks and a normal looking man turns around and starts to hit a man. After these actions, there is a lot of fast paced cuts to demonstrate the intensity of the scene and how everything with in the scene is happening so fast. We also see the camera following the man’s actions as he is hitting the other person on the floor. This could be done to help us audience understand what it might be like to see what is happening from the audiences point of view. We then see match on match action editing when one of the bank robbers is about to shoot one of the civilians on the floor. One of the police or security jumps in front of the victim and the camera moves from the robbers point of view to the security’s point of view back and forth. This would’ve been done so that the audience understand what the situation is like from the victims pout of view and also the robbers point of view. There is also repeated fast paced straight cut to emphasise the intensity of the situation. In the background there is non-diegetic sound and parallel sound. This type of background noise creates more suspense for the audience about the situation. We see match on match actions again when one of the robbers takes the key, inserts it into the door and we go and we go from seeing him on one side of the door to the other side of the room. Whilst the robber is putting the bag over the money, we hear the background noise get louder. This could indicate or foreshadow that the current situation could escalate from the position it already is in. Then there is a king of fade out and dissolve edit when the robber slides the black duffel bag on to the floor which lands so that it covers the camera and cuts in to the next scene. There is a repeated dissolve in the next scene when the man passes the duffel bag over to the other robber. When they do this each man is on the other side of the wall so when the camera moves across from each of the men it creates that dissolve effect. Again, the music gets louder as the situation intensifies outside where the robbers are getting away and the other group of men are trying to catch them. The music also starts to speed up as the characters are speeding up to try and catch the robbers. The music matches their actions. There is another pov shot of when the man is shooting at the police.