Task Ten - Understanding Pace

In order for a film to be successful it would need to include pace, within pace there are a few points that should be included and they are engaging the view, the speed of editing, cross cutting, cutaways, creating pace and the development of drama.

To begin with what is engaging the viewer? This means that the viewer who it watching a film tends to be really focused on the film and does not look away, this then gets them thinking on what could happen next. This is a powerful technique within pace because it makes the viewers enjoy the film more and is intrigued ti know what is going to happen next.

Secondly is the speed of editing, this is the time difference between each scene where it could be a few seconds or even a few minutes between each scene. But the length of each sequence represent the pace of the film moving the action along, an example of this would be if there was love shown in one scene, the time between each scene would be longer compared to others.Then there is another technique within pace editing, this type of technique is known as creating pace. This is when you are filming a scene but when you come to the editing process, you can add in the clips in and change the way how long the clip is or how short. When using this technique it allows you to experience a sign of action or love. An example of this would be used in the fighting scene of The Bourne Ultimatum. But when the pace is slow it normally represents love, this is shown in the film The Notebook.

Thirdly is cross cutting, this is when you created a sequence but you re-order it in able to develop a sense of drama for the audience. This makes the film more interesting and more exciting for the audience so that they don't find it boring. An example of cross-cutting is when Casey died in the film Scream which was shown at the opening. This could also be seen as the development of drama. Drama was developed in this scene by Casey getting extremely worried about her getting killed, once she starts getting chased the cross cutting starts to become involved where we see her parents coming closer and closer to make its audience think will she make it? Just before she gets killed we know that she died and unfortunately did not make it in time.

Next up will be cutaways, this is when a film has been interrupted when being created on purpose shortly followed back to another scene. The reason why they have done this is to avoid using a jump cut so that they make sure does not confuse the audience in order to make it a basic film to understand.