The Descent-Editing

Simranpal Kandola

Pacing

• The pacing of the scene is extremely slow in the first half of the scene, as the director is trying to make the viewing audience acknowledge the relationships between the characters just before the car accident. The only thing moving is the car driving down the road to establish the scene.

• The pacing at the second half of the scene is fast, as the time between each cut is really short. This is done to get a lot of information to the audience in a short amount of time.

• After this fast pacing, the last cut of the scene is really long, as the director wants the audience to soak in the information and to emphasize the effect of the death upon the audience.

Transitions• The transitions in this scene are quite basic, because this scene is very

conversational, therefore nothing but basic cuts are needed between the different shots during the first half of the scene.

• In the second half of the scene, the transition of a fade out is used, as the aerial view of the car fades out into a black screen. This is used by the director so that the viewing audience can think about and acknowledge what has just happened. This is also done in order to emphasize the effect of the death of Sarah’s husband and daughter upon the audience.

Computer Generated Images

• Computer generated images are used in this scene when the car has just collided with the other car and the pipes have pierced through the windshield of the car, which have hit Sarah’s husband and daughter. The computer generated images are used to increase the amount of blood the car crash and death has produced. This is done by the director to increase and emphasize the effect of the death, by use of gore and increase of blood. Although, the uses of CGI is very minimal in this scene.

Fast Cut Editing

• The pace of the editing during this scene is very fast, as it cuts between these 5 screenshots within a couple of seconds

• This scene starts quite slow, as a build up to the car crash and in order to emphasize the crash.

• However, when the car crash occurs, the pace of the editing becomes increasingly fast for the ending with an overview of the tragedy of the car crash.

• After this, for the ending of the scene the pace goes very slow, slower than the start for a fade out into black.