Expanding Time

Expanding time is when you add shots into a sequence that you might not necessarily need but they help to add to the narrative and engage further with the audience to deepen the piece and tell the audience everything to do with the back story of the film.In real time the process your showing on screen might only last half a minute. But the editor can build up tension by including shots of the person's eyes, taping fingers (to show impatience) etc..., drawing the scene out to a minute or more. We are looking at 'film' time, not real time

- Adding shots like these provided the audience with more elements with which to understand the film in a greater depth and feeling.


To learn about this we completed the same 'Mad Max' we did with shrinking time. The difference being that this time,  we expanded time by adding in close up shots of aspects like his hands or his eyes to create more tension/ overall emotion to the scene.

finally we applied this process to our prelim tasks by adding in different shots and adding in more time between cuts we spread the clip out and created more tension at certain key points in the film.