The document analyzes and summarizes key scenes and editing techniques in the film "The Descent". It describes a conversation scene between a mother and daughter, then discusses the crash scene where poles suddenly crash through the car, killing the husband and daughter. It notes that the crash is shown quickly to convey the feeling of being there without graphic details. The section on CGI reveals that the poles were computer generated and not actual props, and were faded in to make the audience believe they were real. Transitions between scenes grow darker after the crash to signal something dramatic has occurred.

1. Micro Analysis – Editing: The Descent
Whitney Nyamayaro

2. The Conversation
 This is the section of the clip
where Sarah is having a
conversation with her daughter
and she is talking about her
birthday and how they are
going to celebrate it. This shot
last around 6 seconds and it
roughly ends with Sarah smiling
at her daughter. This is
devastating because it’s the
final scene between a mother
and daughter.

3. The Crash
 This showing everything that is in
this scene and then all of a
sudden there is a van
approaching and then random
poles going everywhere. It starts
with Sarah asking her husband if
he feeling alright. At this point this
is where everything changed and
the poles went through the car
and killed Paul and Jessica by the
three poles that hit the car. The
pace is very quickly because it
makes you feel as if you are there,
giving you a range of the crash
but not giving a lot of the crash to
make it explicit and gory.

4. CGI
 Computer Generated Images
– this is the part of the scene
where we see that the poles
are actually not hitting
anyone and they are swerving
everyone. It is shown that
there is already blood and
there is a pole attached
already. The poles are edited
and they are faded when you
zoom into the picture and
catch it quickly. They are
simple .jpeg images that they
been inserted. This shows that
we make ourselves believe a
lot of things because the poles
are not actual there at the
same time.

5. Transitions
 The main transition that is
in this scene is where the
whole scene goes darker
after the poles go through
the car. The scene fades
out showing that
something dramatic has
happened and creates
the whole effect that
there is mystery and an
eerie vibe that is in the
atmosphere at the time.