Do better: Film Editing Techniques

 As our team worked to create our movie, Chair, we were limited by resources and knowledge.  If we had endless time and resources, we could have really made our "chair" come to life. Shaman uses cutting to emphasize timing and we did use some cutting to show the "chair" stalking our poor victims. 

We were really able to create a montage with the sequence of shots.  It would have been cool to create a montage of the chairs demise. Shaman uses montage to create emotion and show passage of time.  We could have shown the anger from the chair if we had done this approach. 

We also could have used cross-cutting which would have let us show parallel events but that was way out of our scope.  This could have helped us build some tension to the story but alas, we had to work with what we had and I think it turned out pretty good!

Dissolve is another approach Shaman uses.  Dissolve is a gradual transition between shots where you can fade in and fade out.  Again, with Tom Cruise's movie budget, this may have been a possibility but we definitely didn't have the equipment to do the dissolve. 

Overall our team creating an entertaining movie using the resources at our disposal and we hope you enjoy watching!