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Movie anaylsis of S.W.A.T

In the opening bank robbery scene the director uses parallel editing in this scene. Cross-cut editing was used to show the simultaneous events in this first action scene. In this scene you have the robbers outside of the bank, the police out front of the bank and the S.W.A.T. team going into the bank. You first see what is going on in the bank with the robbers, and then you are taken outside where the police are in a gunfight with the robbers outside. Then you see another shot of the S.W.A.T team entering the bank. All of these shots are alternating to give the audience the idea that all these things are happening at once. This scene probably lasted 30 minutes but with juxtaposing these shots it intensified the suspense and action and also reduced the time.

Another example of editing seen in S.W.A.T is cutting to continuity. In this scene Hondo (Samuel L. Jackson)


is asking Street (Collin Farrell) to drive him around to find the new S.W.A.T recruits. In this scene you see them getting into the car, driving downtown, eating a hot dog, leaving downtown, interviewing a recruit and then driving back to the police station. These shots were arranged to persevere the fluidity of the scene without showing all of it. Again, this scene probably took 30 minutes but with this style of editing it was condensed to 15 seconds and yet nothing essential was left out.

Action movies involve many aspects of editing to heighten the element of suspense and action. Many action sequences are long and involve many camera shots, but it is the director who starts with the master shots and then uses various styles of editing to give the audience the full effect of the movie.

Toward the end of the movie you have three of the S.W.A.T members in a car

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