The 1997 film Gasman by Lynne Ramsey follows a family and family friends in the struggle with money and the area in Glasgow with many families having the same problem and is probably based around East end Glasgow in the late 1970's / early 1980's. The main reason have chosen this film to look at is no just the way it is edited but the way the audience feels emotion from the film through the use of the editing techniques. .
The first element of the editing that I would like to talk about is the use of the images and sound, in the party scene there was no dialogue for a long time and the scene was just allowed to flow due to the interesting shots being edited together such as close ups with focus pulls as well as pans and tilts closely being edited to make a sequence that flows and allows the film to take us into the next scene with the 2 girls fighting.
Not only this but the second element I noticed through editing was the way the film took us into each of the scenes. I would like to ask the cinematographer for the project (Heather H) if she could take some cut away shots at each of the scenes as well as a location shot so when it comes to the edit I have something to cut to in between shots as well as allowing the audience to realize where the action is taking place and this is what the film Gasman achieves as although there are as little as 4 locations in the space of 15 minuets each of them are linked in with the story and the characters are able to move about as well as keeping the time ticking over a long time space.
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