Editing Task

As you can see, the scene that I have picked is from the first Spider-man movie, where Spider-man and the Green Goblin had their first ever battle. I have picked this particular scene because it shows a lot of different things happening at the same time which I will get onto below.

As you can see, in the beginning of the sequence, it instantly shows many different type of straight cuts but isn't going to be picked up by us the audience because these straight cuts happen every time with out us even noticing. At the beginning there is also an unexpected jump cut that takes place, when the character talking in the wheelchair to Harry Osborne moves quickly to the main protagonist, who is down below. I know that he is the main protagonist  because the camera shot of when it shows him, is a medium shot which obviously shows that he is going to  be the main protagonist as it shows that he is being the centre of attention. There are also shot/ reverse shots happening when it goes to the people on top of the balcony, to the people who are standing down below.

After the first minute of this scene, it shows the explosion which was a long shot and was a tilt because it showed the camera going up and down. Also, it showed that the explosion wasn't the main thing that was going on in this scene, the audience were more interested in spider-man coming to rescue. So it showed more of the main protagonist than it did of the actual people that are in danger. Since the camera is doing a shot/reverse shot of the main protagonist and the people in danger, this shows juxtaposition as they're showing more of the hero, where as they should be showing the incident that's going on since that is actually more important.

Half way through this clip, it shows a three way shot of the main protagonist, the villain and the princess who is being waited to be rescued by the hero. I know this because it shows that the princess is on the part of the balcony, that has a huge crack through it and is about to snap and fall all the way down. The action code of this is the villain coming to the balcony on this hover board (the prop), which suggested that something bad is going to happen as he was going in at such pace with a evil look through the villains mask.

When it shows that the main protagonist was running to put on his costume, there was some background music which was parallel and diegetic as it was going at a fast tempo which suggests that the protagonist was in a hurry and didn't have any time to wait and think. However, it also symbolizes the villain as he was trying to destroy the whole balcony with the innocent people as quickly as possible so he can move away from the setting as soon as. 

Another part, where it is half way through the clip, it  shows that the main protagonist was trying to rescue the princess from the balcony, however that got delayed because on his way up to the balcony, he saw this little boy who was shocked by this gigantic hair balloon falling on top of him. Therefore, the main protagonist had to help him first so he doesn't die or get injured. This could be a montage of Spider-man, the main protagonist, helping different people because it is showing different straight cuts and shot/reverse shots of him and the people who needs the help.

In the last scene, where the main protagonist rescued the princess and took her to the last setting, it was all captured in one camera shot, from him swinging in the air to the part where they landed onto the ground which shows that she is safe. Also, most of that particular scene was taken at a long shot, which allowed the audience to see what type of setting it was but when the protagonists had landed, it became a medium shot which therefore suggested that the movie will be based on these two and how they will become the typical movie couple.