Essays on Film Editing

George Lucas, creator of Star Wars and Indiana Jones edited his originals. Many other famous and well-known people like George Lucas edited their movies. There is an immense amount of history for this career. Film and video editing dates back to the 18th century where...

There are several ideas that are associated with the role of editing in film criticism, which can be categorized generally according to the stylistic elements of realism and formalism and the ways in which they both build into the classical paradigm. Lets begin, though, with...

Often in a good movie, people will look first at the directors and writers, and then the actors. At the Academy Awards, all spotlights are concentrated on the best movie and the best actor/actress. Nobody mentions the importance of soundtracks but in a good movie,...

Editing is a big word that is separated into many stages. Visual effects and transition is one of the most main elects in the editing process. Visual effects have been utilized as a part of movies nearly from the earliest starting point of motion pictures....

Moonlight was directed by Barry Jenkins, adapting the unproduced play called In Moonlight Black Boys Look Blue by Tarell Alvin McCraney. Moonlight is a coming of age movie of a young African American man through three stages of his life. Barry Jenkins’s first film, Medicine...

Film and video editing requires knowledge of certain programs, and a creative mind to turn any idea into a reality. There are different kinds of film editors such as audio editors, and video editors, but the more preferred editor is someone who can manage both....

The Blind Side is a must see biographical sports film written and directed by John Lee Hancock. The Blind Side is based on a true story on a football player named Michael Oher who started out with nothing and went on to be a successful...

Run Lola Run is a German film directed by Tom Tykwer which reflects contemporary possibilities at the time of its release. Lola is the red-headed main character that needs to find a way to save her boyfriend Manni’s life. Tom Tykwer is an amazing director...

In a documentary, Touching the Void by Kevin Macdonald, Joe’s breaking point happened on the moraine dam scene where he made use of film techniques. He thought, ‘This is it, this is as far as this game goes. I’m not capable of going any further.’...

Review of the film, “They Call Us Monsters”This documentary is provocative and follows three juvenile offenders housed in a Juvenile facility, pending their trials, in the Los Angeles County Juvenile court system. The three adolescents signed up to take a screenwriting class and thus, this...

In this essay I will discuss and compare two beautiful movies which are The Grand Budapest Hotel and Casablanca. Even though the two movies were shot in the different times they have chosen as one of the most iconic, pleasurable and classic Hollywood movies. This...

The movie The Graduate (1967) is a romantic comedy directed by Mike Nichols. It is based on the 1963 novel by Charles Webb. The main character, Benjamin Braddock (Dustin Hoffman) is an early twenties college graduate. He has returned home to Pasadena, California. There he...

“The Grand Budapest Hotel” is one of the most unusual and memorable films people have ever watched. Wes Anderson showed the audience an irreplaceable example of a great movie. Here everyone can see the use of different techniques that help the viewer to feel the...

The Princess Bride is a timeless tale depicting a heart-warming story about true love. The film, directed by Rob Reiner, was released in 1987 and is still a well-loved romantic classic. In order to position the audience to feel touched and elated for Westley and...

Wes Anderson and Tom Tykwer are two directors who have created their own style of directing motion pictures, allowing them to create engaging and suspenseful moments. This has led them to be prominent names in American and German cinema respectively. This essay will analyze how...

The film that I will talk about is Bonnie and Clyde, released in 1967. This motion picture was formed by Robert Benton, David Newman, and Robert Towne, made by Warren Beatty, and composed by Arthur Penn. The genre that this film is designated is a...

Tsotsi (2005) by Gavin Hood is the South-African movie that has won numerous awards is just one of many from Hood, others are X-Men Origins: Wolverine (2009) and Ender’s Game (2013). Set in Johannesburg in post-apartheid South Africa, the movie illustrates the dramatic life of...

An auteur is someone who dominates the process of filmmaking to the point that we can call the director of a film the auteur or an author of the film. This means the director will put his/her own spin or personal touch to the film...

The Shining is a beloved and chilling 1980 American psychological thriller directed and produced by acclaimed director Stanley Kubrick (2001: A Space Odyssey, A Clockwork Orange, Eyes Wide Shut). The film was adapted from the 1977 novel of the same name written by the ever-prominent...

Film is an evocative medium which informs and reveals through an analytical lense a powerful representation of the individual and collective human experience. In Stephen Daldry’s critically acclaimed coming-of-age film Billy Elliot, this notion is prevalent, as he endeavours to extrapolate the inconsistencies and intricacies...

In “Billy Elliot” human paradoxes and inconsistencies in behaviour arise when values and identity are challenged, inviting the reader to see the world differently. Young Billy Elliot, from a confined closed community, with its limited expectations, poverty, restrictive gender roles, stifled self-expression and disintegration community...

Narrative The narrative point of view that applied to the film is about Andy but Red is the one who narrates the information about his friend. The audience side with him and against those try to harm him. We see what he sees, because of...

Filmmakers use colours as instruments for storytelling, and visual minded directors create colour palettes almost as memorable as the films themselves. Hitchcock is not an exception. Few movies use colour palettes as brilliant as Vertigo (Hitchcock) and there may not be any other film that...

The film ‘East is east’ is based on an autobiographical screenplay by Ayub Khan-Din. It tells the story of a mixed-race Asian family who lives in a north of England town. The father, Mr. Khan, is intent on keeping the traditions of Pakistan, while his...

Michael Moore’s 2002 mockumentary Bowling For Columbine is a political commentary that details the correlations between America’s seemingly normalised ‘gun-obsessive’ tendencies and its relatively high percentage of incidents caused or correlated with gun violence. Throughout the film Moore presents emotionally weighted statistics and footage which...

At the very beginning, I had heard a lot of people saying this is a film which should be in the must-watch list. Frankly, I feared for watching this film though when it came out three years ago. The reason is that I was afraid...

Alfred Hitchcock had a reputation for being the ‘Master of Suspense’, directing a numerous amount of feature films throughout his successful career. His films had a distinct style and they were created skillfully as he had prior skill as a silent film director. From this,...

For nearly half a century, volcanoes have constantly been misrepresented in cinema. Whether as a stage for a climactic battle, an evil lair for dark antagonist, or a threatening obstacle in nearly any disaster movie, these burning mountains have been repetitively used as ominous symbols...

Alfonso Cuaron’s Children of Men (2006) illustrates a world where humans are incapable of reproducing and facing the threat of imminent extinction. The plot is set with Britain as the last working country left, with the remainder of the world having fallen into turmoil. Many...

Introduction Basic introduction of the film is that, The film inside the job is one hour and 48 minutes in length, it has five parts in which different interviews are involved and different type of case studies are given. This basically tells that how did...