Blog Post #19 Editing/Transitions in Film Part: One

 Today I will be analyzing the film Whiplash and its use of transitioning to help convey emotions and actions in the scene to the fullest extent



Whiplash is a film that is oriented around the drums and music but the music isn't what makes this film special its the great use of cutting and editing between shots to give the film a sense of life and it helps with the overall cinematographic features throughout the film. The cuts that are the best part of the editing in the film are the pan cuts, these help the scene feel realistic and overall very fluid. These styles of cuts also help display the action throughout the film better, the best example of this is the final scene where Terrance Fletcher who is the instructor and abusive band leader and the main character Andrew go back and fourth through pan shots with Fletcher seemingly testing Andrew with every reoccurring pan. 



Another reoccurring source of transitions is the use of eye line matches which are used frequently to display emotions and better help the audience understand the where the characters attention is focused at. This use of pivoting emotions between characters can help build suspense. In many of the scenes the characters express emotions of stress and agony due to the harshness and relentlessness of Fletcher and the cutting between the anguish on the drummers faces and the angriness in Fletchers only helps bring more life to this film and allows it to push the boundaries of how far cinematography can reach in the film genre.


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