Use of Cutaways

Whilst studying thriller films we learn how important the use of cutaways are and how they can influence a scene.

                     

                                                                                                                                                       This first example suggests that the man is attracted to the woman.        








The second example suggests that the man is watching his children play. This completely changes the way the character of the man is perceived by the audience.


This led me to researching the Kuleshov affect which is the theory that a cutaway in a scene can change the entire meaning of it.  ''The Kuleshov Effect is a film editing (montage) effect demonstrated by Russian filmmakerLev Kuleshov in the 1910s and 1920s.It is a mental phenomenon by which viewers derive more meaning from the interaction of two sequential shots than from a single shot in isolation.'' http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kuleshov_Effect .  We hope to include this in our thriller as we are planning to cut from a sinister shot of the patient, straight to a shot of the victim.