| With the new perspective in my editing approach for Ipseity, I have taken a look at a couple more films that have inspired me and will help guide my film to where it needs to be. The first film is one that I have mentioned before, Like Crazy (2011). Editor Jonathan Alberts utilizes jump cutting magnificently in this film. The first time I saw Like Crazy I was thoroughly impressed with how Alberts used jump cuts to emphasize the tension in a scene, which typically isn't what jump cuts are used for. For example, there is a scene when Anna upsets Jacob. They spend hours questioning, apologizing and trying to resolve the situation, and the jump cuts are used to emphasize the time elapsed, which results in tension created between the characters. I am not one who typically enjoys jump cuts to begin with or have ever used the technique in my editing before, but every time I see Like Crazy, I go crazy over the jump cuts and how well Jonathan Alberts produces it. | (Above: A scene from Drake Doremus' 2011 Romantic Drama, Like Crazy.) |
I have been reworking the chronology of events in Ipseity, and it has caused me to revisit Andrew Jarecki's 2010 Drama based on the most notorious unsolved murder case in New York history, All Good Things. The film begins with David Marks, played by Ryan Gosling, testifying in a courtroom. It then cuts to where the story began and the film plays out his testimony occasionally cutting back to the courtroom throughout the film. The collaborative Editors of All Good Things, David Rosenbloom and Shelby Siegel cut the film this way to provide the audience with the experience, or feeling like a member of the jury -to hear the testimony and decide whether or not David Marks is guilty of murdering his wife in 1982. I am doing something similar with Ipseity. There will be scenes out of sequence and flashbacks of her relationship with Jake as she continues to strive at her job and develop a friendship with Lukas. This will be challenging for me because I must establish a present and past and make both relevant to each other. In doing this, I hope the audience will see the repetition Cameron falls into with her love life and how making the decision to take the job promotion means she must accept the fact that she has to let go of the past and move on with her life.
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