For March 14th April 3rd you must read the chapter on Editing and watch the movie Sexy Beast, directed by Jonathan Glazer (2000). As I explained in class you must analyze the scene in which Don Logan is telling Gal how the idea of the job came about ( “know a bloke who knows a bloke who knows a bloke. Now, I know you know this bloke. This is a bloke you know”)….
I want you to explore the uses of editing in this particular scene. I came up with a few questions to help you get started. I am not asking you to answer them but rather you write a brief paper on the scene taking the issues risen by the questions into consideration: Are the shots graphically continuous or discontinuous? What rhythmic relations are created? Are the shots spatially continuous? If so, how does the 180 system create continuity? Are the shots temporally continuous? If so, what creates the continuity?
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zqDBAvWdHgE[/youtube]
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