Editing Inspiration

Kurt Cobain: Montage of Heck

Montage of Heck is a documentary following the life of Kurt Cobain from his toddler years leading up to the news of his suicide.
This documentary houses a mixture of home videos, animations and stills which really helps the audience to get inside the mind of Kurt Cobain and find out what he was really like as a person and not as a rock star.
The use of home videos makes the documentary feel more realistic and personal as the audience is being shown actual videos of Kurt as a child.
The use of stills is effective as it gives the audience something to focus on and they are often a range of still images of Kurt to paintings and diary entries written by him.
The animations help the documentary producer to recreate parts of Cobain's life that weren't documented at the time which also allows the audience to imagine the situation.




Breezeblocks - alt-J

The way this music video is edited is very effective as it is all in reverse, this technique could be used in my music video as it is based on memories and the past. 

The dark colours used throughout the video suggest a bleak and negative atmosphere and immediately indicate that something bad has happened.

In Guns We Trust

In Guns We Trust

The short film/documentary above explores the american gun culture and how various people feel about the gun laws in the US.

This is a really well edited documentary for various reasons:

- Colour Treatment: The documentary is all in black at white, this portrays a negative feel throughout the film. It also evokes various feelings of sorrow and makes in quite harrowing to watch. 

- Camera Takes: during this short documentary film there is a mixture of video clips and stills. This is effective because it allows the audience to take in all the aspects of the images but also allows them to see into the world of guns.

- Voice Overs/ Interviews: throughout the film there are interviews and voice overs from various people voicing their opinions on the gun laws in the U.S. This allows the audience to consider other people's opinions, and the voice over means that the audience have something to look at other than watching a person speak.