Evaluation of the Gloaming

C. Watch ‘Playing with Time’ – watch the film ‘The Gloaming’. Write a short evaluation of the editing used in this film. Refer to detailed examples from the film and use the terminology you have learnt today.


Through simple pan shots at the beginning to show the viewers that the couple on the motorbike are newlyweds and happy by adding an up-beat non-digestic sound overlapping the film.Then suddenly cuts out into a gloomier scene where the female character is on her own with a darker music.And then suddenly cuts back into the happy scene creating the whole happy scene a flashback , making the gloomier scene the present.The whole video uses the same trick of cutting in an out to make the film sharp and on edge , because as the viewers we don't know when the next cut is. We don't know much about the girl or what happened to her husband by having her being the one shown makes the whole video more edgy as she is girl , dressed in white , on her own and very vunrable. The video uses different shots from close ups on her face and hands , wide shots of her surroundings and medium shots of her.Also the music in the begging is lost throughout he first minutes of the video and soon re-apperears but because of the diegetic sounds that come with it , its a whole different song as its comes across as creepy.Also we never hear her speak , the only noise that we get from her is the scream from when she lifts up the blanket and reveals the head beneath the blanket, making the whole video a whole lot mysterious and suspenseful.