Psycho
In this scene in the movie, Psycho, the use of both slow-paced and fast-paced editing is used to create two different atmospheres:
The start of the clip consists of several slow-paced editing shots of a young woman taking a shower which creates a rather relaxing and calm setting for the audience. One of the slow-paced shots is of the woman standing underneath the shower whilst an unknown figure emerges from behind the shower. The use of this slow-paced editing shows the unknown figure getting closer and closer to the woman in the shower, which creates tension for the audience as they anticipate what this figure will do. The next section of the clip shows several fast-paced shots of the figure holding a knife and the woman screaming (both of which are typical conventions of a horror movie). Although the audience do not actually see the blade harm the woman, the use of fast-paced editing between the shots portrays this inference because of the quick back-and-forth shots between the scenes of the figure lashing out with the knife and the woman screaming and trying to avoid the contact from the knife, and also the shots of the bath water becoming darker - suggesting that the woman has been cut and is bleeding. The clip ends with some slow-paced editing of the shots of the woman's hands slipping down the tiles of the wall and the woman herself falling into the tub of the bath.
In this clip from horror film, The Strangers, slow and fast-paced editing is used to capture the different types of emotion that both the character in the clip and the audience go through. The clip begins with slow-paced editing as the woman hears unexplained noises and begins to look worried and scared. She then slowly makes her way to the patio door on the other side of the room - the use of slow-paced editing here is reflect her movements and to create tension and suspense for the audience as they do not know what is hiding behind the curtain, like the woman in the shot does not know. When the woman pulls back the curtain they becomes face to face with an unknown figure wearing a mask. The use of fast-paced editing here is to show the panicked reaction and movements to the masked figure standing outside. The use of the two types of editing used in the same scene sets the audience up for what might come from the woman's actions: the slow and gradual build up to the woman opening the curtain and revealing the figure who stands behind it set the audience up for a jump-out-of-your-seat reaction which the woman in the shot experiences as she then jumps back, shocked and scared, to what she has just seen - like the audience would.
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