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Narrative And Editing 12 - Mark Question And Glow (LO3)

Todorov:


Equilibrium: Tamme's daily routine of wrestling.

Disruption: (Has already taken place) - back pain.

Recognition: (has already taken place and is shown in the first shot) - knows she's in pain.

Attempt To Repair: Self-medicating with wine and painkillers.

New Equilibrium: injured back, following gradual deterioration and a sneeze.


Definition:

The straight cut — One of the most fundamental transitions to get to the next shot in the same scene. It's simply a transition from one shot to another, with no effects.

Jump cut - An edit to a sequential shot that makes the action appear to leap forward in time. After the amount, the subject may appear in a different position or attitude, or the camera position may be slightly different.

Four Editing Techniques Used:

  • Montage
  • Matched Cuts
  • Jump Cuts
  • Straight Cuts

Camera Angles

  • Pan down to close up - focuses on Tamme's face - establishes her as the main character (at least for this episode)
  • Static code up on tablets and wine - establishing that Tamme is in pain and using tablets and wine to numb it.
  • Mid shots - Tammr wrestling - this is what is causing her pain.
  • Extreme close-up - Tamme's eyes - pain and stress; she's struggling.

Sound Effects

  • Non-Diegetic Music - Introduces the scene, which is full of repetitive musical phrases which mirror the nature of Tamme's repetitive work - doing the same wrestling show over and over.
  • Pleonastic sound - tablets and bottle noises are emphasised in post-production - draws attention to them as Tamme's coping mechanism.
  • Sound bridge - wrestler screams over scenes with Tamme getting ready - suggests that the riots also link to Tamme's plan.
  • Diegetic sneeze - This cuts the music and is followed by Tamme swearing - drawing emphasis to the pain and letting the audience know she's seriously injured her back with the sneeze.

Mis-en-scene

  • Shower handle - using the heat to numb the pain of a bad back.
  • Wine bottles and tablets - constructing the narrative of Tamme's self-medicating to get through her work as a wrestler.
  • Costume - Simple comfortable athletic wear contrasts the outlandish wrestling attire - links to Tamme hiding her pain - hiding the pain has become part of the costume.
  • Bin - multiple shots of several bottles and tablets being put in the bin - shows how much she's going through and the pain level she's feeling.


Editing


  • Montage - clips are cut to show the passage of time and the repetition of Tamme's work as a wrestler. Emphases
  • Continuity and discontinuity editing - a clear story is established, but some scenes are interspersed with other scenes that are not within continuity. Done to create repetition of Tamme's work (Barthes - enigma code - how bad is that pain)
  • L cut - Tamme's opponent screams over scenes with Tamme getting ready - suggests the screams also link to Tamme's pain (Strauss - control vs lack of control)
  • Action match - Tamme's throwing off her opponent in the ring is matched to the bottles being thrown in the bin. This creates a link to the cause of the pain and her solution (Propp - villain = back pain)



Discuss how editing techniques contribute to creating a narrative concerning a digital product and the theories you have studied.



The "GLOW" episode, 'Freaky Tuesday' uses various editing techniques to create a narrative. In the opening, a vast amount of montage clips highlight the wrestler's repetition. Some more techniques are also used: Matched Cuts, Jump Cuts and Straight Cuts. Using straight cuts shows Todorov's theory, from disrupting the back pain to recognising that she knows she is in pain. The use of Matched amounts shows the action taking place, from the Disruption to the attempt to repair where she is self-medicating with wine and painkillers, the also another use of jump cuts, moving from one scene to another in quick succession. 



Todorov's theory fits in well with the episode, the equilibrium is her daily routine of wrestling, moving to the back pain in the disruption, moving to the recognition where she knows she is in pain and trying to attempt a repair where she is self-medicating with wine and pain killers, to a new equilibrium with an injured back, following a gradual deterioration and sneeze, which causes horrible pain. 





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