Hey, I’m James and I’m going to be doing the editing for our group. Once we had come up with our idea i went home and watched ‘Kidulthood’, a film we had talked about as inspiration for our project. I thought it would be a good idea to go back and watch this film again to see if there were any editing techniques i thought were particularly interesting. The film in itself was interesting but some of the editing techniques used added to the effectiveness of the film.
There are two bits of this clip i particularly like. The first is in the playground when it is already introducing you to the characters. It switches between the three different groups but i found particularly interesting about it was the way it speeds up when we aren’t focusing on a character, and then it slows down when we are focusing on a character that we need to know about. I thought that was great as it showed the chaotic style of the playground and what the school was like. The next bit i found interesting was the scene where the group of girls are beating up another girl in the classroom. I thought the way they repeated the shot of the actual hit was very effective as it gives a sort of double take effect. Where you’ve seen something really quickly and weren’t sure what you’d seen so you go back to look again. I thought that was very effective. Another bit i found very effective was when the girl gets hit the clip is sped up, or maybe cut i can’t quite tell, between the actual hit and the girl hitting the wall. I thought this emphasised the power of the hit and what effect it had on the girl and thought it was particularly interesting.
