Cuffs Editing

1. T  identify the term  
2. E describes the example  
3. EAA explain, analyse, argue how meaning is made

PREP Analyse how editing is used in the extract from Cuffs to create meaning. Refer to at least two examples from the extract in your answer. (This means that a good candidate will write fully and freely, covering more than just 2 examples, as we practised in class).
Worth 5 marks: write half a side of A4 and post on your blog tonight. If you have DoE, take an extra 24 hours.

Halfway through the episode Jake, Joe and her assistant enter the racist's house. As Joe and her assistant begin fighting off the men in the house, at this point everything begins to slow down, literally. This editing technic is called slow-motion, it is part of post-production effect. This is clear that the producer wants us to see what is in Jake's mind. He is in a scenario where he has absolutely no idea what to do, everyone is fighting he does know who to hit and who to help.

Further on, the detective is reviewing the view of the father with his abducted daughter. As the camera goes closer to the piece of paper on the Dad's bed. As the camera gets closer to paper we see his face change expression. This is called extream cross-cutting as we then understand that the detective has realised that the father is at a hotel.

As the detective finds where the father was he walks out to the balcony, he finds the father is about to jump off it. The detective looks at him then at the daughter, as this is done we see the daughter in the hotel room. This is another use of cross-cutting this is a way in which the detective is reminding the father what he has to live for.