Girl, Interuppted

Video Editing Analyzation- Girl, Interrupted For years motion pictures have captured audiences around the world. They create an outing from reality and bring people to whole new worlds. A world where one may be faced with extraterrestrials or be the last survivor of an apocalypse or, while on a ship destined to sink, found the love of your life. The film industry has spent years perfecting the cinematography behind these film, making the utmost unbelievable of stories believable. To the audience, one of the most hidden procedures during film production is editing. Film editing provides fluidity and coherence to the movie, allowing the story plotline to become more believable. The 1999 film Girl, Interrupted, directed by James Mangold and edited by Kevin Tent, displays a wide range of profound editing cinematography. The film begins by stating the scenery to the audience. By opening with an off shot picture of the window, showing how foggy and gloomy it is outside, it places the audience in a mellow state. The scene then transitions into another shot, this screen shot now slowly making its way down to the main character, Susanna, shown sitting on the floor. The scene then is cut and is replaced by a shot of Susanna in the hospital. While at the scene of the hospital there are multiple shots, cutting from medium shots to wide shots. The wide shots was used more to display the doctors and nurses rush to attend her. The medium shots were used to display her eagerness to look up and around the room. This shot was able to explain how distraught Susanna was during the scene. The shots were quick and short throughout this scene making the audience believe there was an essence of hurry an essence of emergency. These shots would often also cut into shots of objects or certain aspects in the room such as the stretcher or needles. Throughout the movie Susanna would also continually have flashbacks, this edited using the technique, flashback. The scene would take a jump