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Task 1 C Assessment Criteria 1.3 of Unit 31

The fundamental horror films and Sky News that could be argued that all moving image sequences (almost all) use cuts to condense time and space, and to tell stories for the audience to understand what they are watching in the screen. While as Sky News is live update where broadcasters are over the European countries showing international, multi media news. Sky News is based in Britain. The news provides non-stop rolling news on television for the audience to watch 24/7 ever day.

To demonstrate my understanding of the editing process I will be using two moving image texts for textual analysis. The fictional text ‘Knock, Knock, Roth, 2015 18 United States and the non-fiction example Sky News 18:00 Britain, Tuesday 1st December 2014.

Knock, Knock (2015) opens at 1:19 minute long with a conventional establishing shot. That has become synonymous with mainstream filmmaking. The early film-makes, Porter and Griffith used such shots to impart information to the spectator about the narrative environment, character’ and plot.

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Knock Knock 2015, “The image quality is, of course, crucial. Remember that as director it isn’t your responsibility to know the detail of how the camera works. You should be prepared to request the size; 16:9 is the cinematic convention ” Hunt (2009). Directing Fiction. London: Ava Publishing. 98.

Eli Roth uses high quality equipments to create the films. The film starts off bird eye view showing the street towards Evan Webber house it showing inertia shot Evan Webber house with his family photo It seemliness editing.

“The image quality is, of course, crucial. Remember that as director it isn’t your responsibility to know the detail of how the camera works. You should be prepared to request the size, 16:9 is the cinematic convention ” Hunt (2009). directing fiction. London: Ava Publishing. 98.

In to the film in 13 minute Eli Roth Evan Webber is sitting down at 12 o clocks. Where the camera is focused on Evan Webber getting I pad showing Evan Webber wife photo which explain to the audience that he misses his wife ever much. Evan Webber hear a noise and he suddenly get up and wonder where the noise came from. Eli Roth uses blur shot show the corroder with the blur with the music is getting stronger for the audience to react.

It transitions through a conventional cut to a close up of the protagonist’s eye showing Keanu Reeves played by Evan Webber he open the door in the middle of cold and running night the two ladies appears Lorenza Lzzo and Ana De Armas they are speaking to Evan. The camera pans showing the two ladies very cold and vulnerable for the audience to see.

The cut is, defined by the cinema dictionary has individual strip of a film that is consisting of a single shot been separated of two peaces of action as transition. This means that two different shots are joined together in the editing process to make a clean video clip for the audience to understand.

This film is about a devoted husband and after Evan Webber that is played by Keanu Reeves that is at home alone for the weekend. One-night two young attractive women unexpectedly knock on Evan Webber house door for help. At the beginning it started as Evan been gesture and kind towards the two-lady Genesis, which is played by Lorenza Izzo and Ana De Armas, which is played by Bel. Eli Roth wants to build the audience attention by introducing the characters for the audience to see.

In Knock Knock 2015 The director Eli Roth wanted an actor that would create a less culture significance and Keanu Reeves fit that character has he

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performed in the other film called John Wick, which was release on October 24, 2014. Knock Knock was very good fit for Keanu Reeves to play a huge role in the film.

The craft of editing utilises specific methods of transition to tell stories. Every genre has its own requirements in terms of the type, style and rhythm of the edits it uses. When analysing a moving image sequence it is crucial that the reader of the text is able to identify and understand the edits being used, and crucially, why they might have been used – what meaning they are trying to convey.

There are a number of transitions that construct moving image, these include such as cut, fade, dissolve, wipe, continuity editing, action match, cross cutting, parallel action and jump cut.

While as Sky news uses cross cutting from their studios from one presenter to the other presenter across European country bring live news updates regarding every situation such as wars, economic, weather, sports and many other important information that the audience would be interested in.

Cross-Cut Sky News uses cross cutting allot during presenting the news for the audience between two presenter where one presenter is in Sky News Centre in Britain they use cross cutting in New Zealand or other part of the world to bring news for the audience to watch and now about what the other part of the world are going through.

While in Knock Knock 2015, they have used cross cutting in 37 minute showing Evan Webber entering the toilet where Genesis and Bel are washing there self. The camera cross cut between the toilet and outside the house showing taxi waiting for two ladies Genesis and Bel is having sex with Evan Webber it outside the house raining showing the taxi waiting for the two ladies. It cut back to the shower where they are having sex showing the taxi leaving the apartment, It cross cut showing Evan family photo. Eli Roth uses bird eye view to show the house raining it creates a sense of attention towards the audience when watching the film.

Wipe: Sky News most of the time they use wipe editing in every 15 minute. Showing sky news for the audience to watch. “This is because Sky News is globally important fast changing media form. It flows at incredible speed 24/7 across internet, TV, printer, radio”. The Media Student’s Book page 335.

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This quote shows the viewers that The Sky News is devoted for their audience to watch Sky News. Most of their broadcast news they use wipe editing showing the different headlines in the beginning of the show for there audience.

Continuity Editing: Sky News uses continuity Editing throughout the Sky News showing the important headlines that Sky News covers for their audience to understand what going on in the world. Continuity Editing is a style of editing that Sky News uses throughout their coverage showing the important headlines for the audience to watch. Sky News uses the predominant style of film editing and video editing as a postproduction process to create a narrative for the audience to watch the news. Sky News want to smooth their footages for the audience to understand very clearly.

However Continuity Editing is very important in the film industry because continuity editing is a style that filmmaker’s uses specially when they are creating films. The main factor that film directors are using continuity editing is achieved by cutting to continuity. Which emphasizes smooth transition of time and space.

Action Match Sky News and Knock Knock they use action match to editing and video technique where showing one editing clip that is been cutting from one shot to other shots for the audience to view that matches the first shot action. They use action shots when filming the movie Knock Knock so that clear what the storyline is going on making it smoother for the viewer to watch.

Sky News use action match when presenting an event that has happened they use action match from one place showing other places for the audience to view.

In conclusion I think that directors in films and directors that are working in multi Media industry they operated in different ways to present television program for the audience.

Bibliography:

http://bloody-disgusting.com/reviews/3365716/review-knock-knock-confidently-answers-door-wrong-house/

http://news.sky.com/docs/sky_news_editorial_guidelines.pdf

http://substreammagazine.com/2015/10/film-review-eli-roths-carefully-crafted-knock-knock-has-worthwhile-thrills-and-chills/