Editing analysis of Memento
When writing my textual analysis for the Memento film, I found the editing used very interesting and I would like to look into it further.
Leonard Shelby, a former insurance investigator, who suffers from anterograde amnesia.Short term memory loss in which he cannot make new memories.The film is fragmented just like Leonardo's mind, to show this the film is told backwards with scenes jumping back in fifteen minutes in the story line.The reverse order for the film is cut by a chronological sequence, so every few minutes the film is cut.The films turns in a circle, so the end of the film meets the beginning.
In order for the film to maintain comprehensive relation editing was used : Two scenes are connected in reverse order plot, by repeating the first few seconds of a scene in conclusion of a scene that appears later.
Continuity editing a dominat style used in the film industry is also used for memento.
Continuity editing: is the process, in film and video creation, of combining more-or-less related shots, or different components cut from a single shot, into a sequence so as to direct the viewer's attention to a pre-existing consistency of story across both time and physical location.
Leonard Shelby, a former insurance investigator, who suffers from anterograde amnesia.Short term memory loss in which he cannot make new memories.The film is fragmented just like Leonardo's mind, to show this the film is told backwards with scenes jumping back in fifteen minutes in the story line.The reverse order for the film is cut by a chronological sequence, so every few minutes the film is cut.The films turns in a circle, so the end of the film meets the beginning.
In order for the film to maintain comprehensive relation editing was used : Two scenes are connected in reverse order plot, by repeating the first few seconds of a scene in conclusion of a scene that appears later.
Continuity editing a dominat style used in the film industry is also used for memento.
Continuity editing: is the process, in film and video creation, of combining more-or-less related shots, or different components cut from a single shot, into a sequence so as to direct the viewer's attention to a pre-existing consistency of story across both time and physical location.
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