5 MASTER TECHNIQUES

https://youtu.be/BN9mhbcijvM?si=nSRSciK5HMoBuit8 This is all of my scenes I talk about for my editing techniques.

1. EUPHORIA

2. CATCHING FIRE

3. MEAN GIRLS

 1. CONTRAST 

The scene that I choose is from HBO Max's Euphoria which is show primarily talking about 5 distinct teenagers and the struggles that they face in their everyday lives involving drugs, sex, crime, and partying.  The scene is showing Ali and Rue sitting at a restaurant talking about her struggles in high school and she is explaining how she thinks kids in high school are idiots. He asks her what made her feel this way and it cuts to her explaining that it's just the regular "bullshit" all the while cutting back and forth showing her struggling deeply throughout her day. This allows the audience to empathizes the drastic difference between her words and the actual situations she face's in her everyday. The technique shows the harsh contrast between her claiming that the stuff she deals with is "not serious" while we as the audience can make the inference that her life is extremely chaotic and depressive .  

2. SIMULTANEITY

The scene I choose is from the original Mean Girls which is a movie about 4 popular and conceited high school girls in a friend group The scene is showing 2 girls on the phone talking bad about another girl in their friend group. The clip shows the conversation happening between the two girls at the exact same time and then we cut to another girl joining the group call. The audience can vividly see the simultaneity of this scene because it gives a comedic effect knowing these girls are all arguing and talking bad about one another at the exact same time. The cross-cutting of this scene allows for the audience as well to infer further on that they are all "fake friends" to one another which gives a further comedic effect to our viewers. 

3. LEIT MOTTIF

The scene I choose is from the Hunger Games: Catching Fire which is a dystopian movie about different districts getting children from each of their cities into a nationally televised fight to death as entertainment for the more fortunate people. In the first clip, we see Katniss and Peeta talking to one of the districts explaining their sorrow for their dead children. These scene's display Leit Motif because in each scene I choose, we hear a character in the crowd whistle a certain whistle tune and 3 fingers kiss their mouth and salute into the air as a sign of the rebellion. This tune, the audience now knows that this salute is a sign of respect and a sign of hope that the common folk of the district can look to as a symbol of freedom.  It also is portrayed further in the movie - the whistle tune- as we see Katniss conquer the capitol and lead the Rebellion.