User talk:Kaudilyan

--Kaudilyan (talk) 17:46, 26 July 2011 (UTC)	Editing is the most important process of a film making. The editor is often called the second director of the film. Editor chooses and picks up the appropriate and effective shots and put them together in the process of editing. Thus the carefully filmed film becomes trash or makes to the cinema. The editing is as important as filming a scene. The edits allows us to cut into different shot sizes, cut into different angles, fasten or slower the actual time etc. these are the factors which make films different from a stage performance. This is the backbone of the entertainment in film. Editing opened new possibilities of uses of the camera. It allowed filmmaker to be more creative and constructive. From the beginning of cinema, editing has always been developed and improved. Cutting and pasting the film according to its order was the editing in early cinema. It became creative and innovative as time passed by. The editing in Natural Born Killers is a very creative and contributing factor of the whole film and its narrative. It opened a new pathway in editing and in film language. Natural Born Killers embodies a “postmodern narrative discourse”, in which linear time is fragmented and narrative events are interpreted from various point of views. This decentred, multi perspective narrative is created by the fast pace editing and the music (Lochhead, 2002: 335). The film is about two mass murderers, Mickey and Mallory and their life. The fast pace intercuts, associative cuts and the colour and filters used with the wildly stylised camerawork depict the vicious anarchy of Mickey and Mallory’s killing sprees. The associative cuts to snake, spiders, horse, and rabbits associate their violent behaviour to Mickey and Mallory’s character in the film. These edits create a relentless question about their violent behaviour and the culture they brought up in. Some says that editing in Natural Born Killers was hardly done with a meat cleverer. The unconventional (at the time) and unremitting alteration of colour and black and white images, its long shots and close ups, its use of newsreel, animation, and video footage, and its bewildering array of film stocks, filters, and camera angles, it was deliberately designed to have a meat cleaver look to set the atmosphere of horror and violence in the narrative of the film (Black, 2002: 141-142). The editing in Natural Born Killers is mentioned as MTV style editing. It is so fast and the colour and tone of the images are so luxurious. This is how the film puts its violence up front and demands that audiences think seriously about it, rather than simply treat it as cool. The editing helps to create the hatred towards Mallory’s parents and to understand her attitude towards them. This also justifies their behaviour in the film. The moral questions raised about the society is being emphasised by the depiction of violence and the family in the film. The editing in Natural Born Killers created a new style of film editing and the even a new film style. The violence and morals of the society is being questioned with the editing and it applications. The films narrative and the structure are constructed to be reconstructed by the editing. This reconstruction of the film with the constructed shots, creatively make the editing thus the film. The films or its message is shaped and refined by the editing process. The innovations and application of new method and style made this film and its narrative outstanding.

Bibliography Joel Black, 2002, The Reality Effect: Film Culture and the Graphic Imperative, (New York, Routledge) Judith Irene Lochhead, 2002, Postmodern Music/ Postmodern Thought, (New York, Routledge)