SOTD - Editing

Question 1

What is significant about the editing style?

Answer 1

Wright and Dickens worked together using many techniques such as flashbacks, flashforwards, montage editing, cross cutting and elliptical editing which bring a dramatic sense of pace to ensure active engagement

Question 2

What editing techniques are used in the rescue Liz sequence?

Answer 2

The montage editing including sound stings and rapidly edited images with accompanying crash zooms and whip pans adds drama to everyday as well as giving a dynamism to the edits.

Question 3

How is the style of editing effective?

Answer 3

It is highly engaging and in-keeping with the humourous narrative as the spectator is drawn to the 3 hypothetical attempts to rescue Liz creating active spectatorship

Question 4

How is sound editing used in television to construct humour?

Answer 4

Random snippets of dialogue construct a summary enabling Shaun to realise the gravity of the situation. They sound and visual cues are carefully cut together to foreshadow the zombies. Also, innovative editing as there is a sense of pleasure as we know more than Shaun