Psychological Thriller Editing.

Psychological thriller editing

Flashbacks are often used in psychological thrillers to give the viewer an insight of a character’s life and, more importantly, the roots of their present distress. This could feature them happy or alternatively, them in danger.

In addition slow motion or speeding things up could be used to either confuse the viewer, adding tension by either elongating a scene or speeding it up to show passing of time.

Quick editing is also common in psychological thrillers, as it creates a sense of the unknown to the audience and builds tension

Editing can also be used to create a montage of happier times of a character or past events to alert the audience of how these events now effect the mood currently in the film.