Movie Poster for Snatch
Since the beginning of the movie making business things have changed drastically. Especially in post production. There are many different editing styles used in film that not many audiences pick up on.
Some movies have quick cut editing and others have long shots that go on for a while. Guy Ritchie’s Snatch is perfect example of a quick cut editing style. There is not one shot in there longer five seconds. A viewer will especially notice this in the action scenes. The Bourne trilogy (soon to be a quadrilogy) is know for their intense action scenes being so quickly cut together. On the other hand there are films that have very long shots cut together. A prime example of this would be John Carpenter’s Halloween. Halloween has shots that go on for more than fifteen seconds! That is three times longer than the longest scene in Snatch! A more recent picture that has long shot editing is the movie Michael Mann’s Collateral. Every director has their own vision for their films and they don’t always stick with the same style. Depending on the genre of the film, or the overall feeling of it their editing styles vary.
What I have learned from this article is that everyone has their own style and not one is any better than the other.