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Grouping clips: COMMAND + G

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In this clip screened in the lecture from the Coen brothers’ ‘Blood Simple‘ describe what is happening in terms of the edits specifically in terms of the audio and video. Also name the different kinds of audio you can hear. 

There are jump cuts between the two characters when they are talking within the 180-degree rule. In the sequence after one of the characters is passed with an envelop, the edits compose with a close-up shot of Marty when he was watching carefully the photo followed by the close-up of the photo; then return to his face, and after that another close-up of a particular part in the photo. Here is showing the man’s reaction to that photo. The audio of the characters’ conversation keeps running even when it cuts to another shot for continuity. Therefore we can still hear one character is talking even it is showing the other character on screen. I can hear the crickets in the background even they are not on screen which brings out the silence in the scene and builds up tension. I also hear very slightly the bug buzzing near Visser’s head, the creaking of the chair he is sitting as well as the sound when Visser was grinding the cigarette on the metal plate. I can hear the sound of Marty vomitting when he was in the bathroom and the water running. I get the sense of what is going on even though things are not happening on screen. It is the climax when I heard the pulling of a gun and the gun shot in comparatively loud noise and dramatic effect, which happened very fast.