Final Short Film Analysis. (RESUBMITTING)

In the three short films that i have looked at they are all thrillers as they all follow or use non linear narrative style of editing for example in Message in a bottle they started with a shot of a character on like an island then it cuts nearly immediately to a shot of another character in the city. This style of editing is montage style of editing has it takes two shots of no relationship and makes the viewers work out whats going on which is an alternative style of editing. At this point no one knows what is going on and the sudden change of geographical locations sends out a bit of mystery going on as we don't know who the two characters in the two shots are and what relationships they have with each other. Also its a non linear narrative because the story definitely doesn't start from  the beginning it starts from a section in time in which we do not know if its the future the present or the past in most cases durine the clip or towards the end of the clip we get to see flashbacks also non linear narrative is an alternative system or type of editing as it breaks continuity. This clip in my opinion doesn't have a targeted audience except for those studying media because the way the clip is shot its very difficult to actually understand and even i myself found it difficult to work out whats going on until i watched it the fifth time, most viewers don't have that patience to watch over it five times. But compared to Decay which has a target audience of horror and vampire lovers, that clip also uses non linear narrative because we start with the character in the present and we go ahead to know about his past through flashbacks and a lot of mainstream techniques were used such as the 180 degree rule and match on action shot and also the camera followed most parts of the action.  Also we also have linear narrative which is a mainstream style of editing as it allows or doesn't break continuity. Example is in up has a linear narrative.

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 Also there are Message in a bottle had a very open ending because the clip ended with the character inhaling a chemical from the bottle which is mainstream or continuity style of editing as it leaves opportunities for the story to continue mostly used in serials and most times if not all in single dramas. Message in a bottle is actually single stranded as it has just one story following exactly one character throughout the whole clip rather than a series like friends for example that uses a multi stranded narrative where there are different story plots of different characters which means that there are more than one character while a serial follows one character and in the way message in a bottle is shot it can well enter for an episode in a serial as it has open endings and uses single stranded narrative.
Also there are a lot of camera techniques used in message in a bottle we can see that in the clip the camera has been placed at different angles to add different
meanings we can see in the screenshot above that the camera has been placed at a very low angle to make the character look superior or big to whatever character or the world around her there are other two occasions where the camera has been placed at high angles along the clip as well.

Also in the clip we see areas where the camera has been used to apply a pull focus on certain objects such as the example to the left where the barbed wire has been blurred out to add some sort of importance to the building, also we can see another shot of an low angle shot also while this shot was playing if close attention was paid you would see that the camera slowly moves towards the right also we can say that seamless editing was used which is a mainstream technique where by the viewers hardly notices the editing that has been used on done. This clip hardly used continuity style of editing such as cross cutting and 180 degree rule therefore it was more montage based and we saw in the first few seconds where the kuleshov technique was used where two shots with no relationship are literally show after each other which makes the viewer think thereby using intellectual montage we can see the screenshot in the first two above and also the shot of the  girl on the road and then it cuts to the building leaving viewers clueless of whats going on. Also we can also see that they have definitely used one camera because each time they show a shot is from a different angle and also the camera didn't follow the girl when she was in the building climbing the stairs the camera was actually set up in one spot and she literally just walked across the camera and climbed the stairs.

• Tarantino is a contemporary movie producer who uses montage to add artistic touches to his videos, he uses a lot of close ups to show a characters emotions editing has advanced for switching between two shots to show emotions to now using a sing shot to show emotions there by reducing the amount of shots that will have to be taken or edited he also slows down the tempo of his shots and and the rhythm to show tension and to make the viewers know that the character is tensed or nervous about what's actually going on.

The main purpose he did this was to make the storyline firm by developing the dram and also he uses alot of shots in a sequences and he does creates pace whenever he wants it to go high it does if he wants it to go low it does as well.

• Nolan uses a mixture of both continuity as he decided to keep some of the rules of continuity such as cross cutting but he other cases he has actually broke them there by adding artistic touches to his editing and also at the same time using montage and partly continuity he also uses a lot of non-linear editing which gives him mire reason to break continuity because non-linear either starts form the middle or the end and the viewers at the beginning have no clue of what is actually going on until they start to see flash backs which also breaks continuity to an extent.

As we have seen above in the examples of Tarantino and Nolan's work we can see that they both use a mixture of continuity and montage techniques the main reason they have done this is in other to add style and make their work look artistic.