Reseach Part 8 (Parallel Editing and Cross Cutting)

This can be used very effectively in action films and horror films alike. It creates a lot of tension and suspense when building up to a climax in a film.
It is also used in the film industry to mislead the audience as the audience's inquisitive nature trys to connect the dots and make assumptions to what is happening a great example of this is the silence of the lambs.
Here the audience think that the policed raid is happening on (Psychopath) Buffalo Bills house.When in actual fact we realise that they have got the wrong house and that the FBI agent in the same time period has got the right house, and is possibly in danger as she has no backup.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=Ts1x6uADFtM

Cross-Cutting the time in spaces always has to be simultaneous, while in parallel editing the scene time can be different like in the Mexican movie "Love's a bitch" or the 4th season of Lost. This is according to Bordwell (A prestigious professor of film studies) . So with our production we aim to use both.