Schager, Nick, Editing is Key to the Drama and Comedy of The World’s End, A.V. Club, Jan, 2014 http://www.avclub.com/article/editing-is-key-to-the-drama-and-comedy-of-the-worl-200786

The article explains to the readers how Edgar Wright and his Editor Paul Machliss use editing to create comedy and to dramatise their movie ‘At the World’s End’. It uses all the available editing techniques there are from Montages, to fast cutting to holding a shot to finding rhythm by fast cutting and slowing it down and again fast cutting. It uses wipes to create an effect of long takes to the already long shots and how it uses holding to create comedic effects from the actors. By employing all these techniques the director and the editor mash different genres (comedy, sci-fi, drama) to create a hybrid genre attuning their editorial form to their narrative form.

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