Editing: blog task

Editing: blog task

Psycho (1960):

In this short clip of the movie Psycho;The editor of this  thriller , received four Academy Award nominations. The movie received abundant fame for the famous shower scene, a 45-second sequence that originated from editing. The cutting of the hand,  shadow on the shower curtain, and the shower itself, were all done with extreme precision. The edit,has a  dramatic change in pace is achieved by editing because the straight cuts between each clip occurs very frequently, which creates the effect of a fast pace as the film continues. This is achieved post filming by editing because the editor alternates between different camera angles in order to present various angles of the scene. The point where the editing was the fastest in the clip was when the intruder was attempting top stab the woman in the shower, where there were fast straight cut edits between each knife stroke. The pace of the action then slowed down towards the end of the clips when the wounded woman was falling to the floor; the use of editing to slow down the scene emphasised the shock and pain she was in.