Wilhelm Scream Compilation

The Wilhelm Scream is a very popular sound effect in film. It has appeared in over 200 films including Star Wars, The Lord of the Rings and several Disney films. The name originates from the 1953 film The Charge at Feather River, when a character called Private Wilhelm is shot in the chest by an arrow and the iconic scream is heard. However, the very first use was in the 1951 film Distant Drums, when a man gets bitten and chomped by an alligator. The scream wasn't used much after that until 1977, when sound designer Ben Burtt incorporated it into Star Wars. Steven Spielberg also used it a lot in the Indiana Jones films

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Sinister - Official Trailer 2012

The trailer for the 2012 horror film Sinister is a good example of editing as it involves a quick fade to black and fade up, a dissolve and a jump cut.

Editing

Without editing, everything you watched would be boring and repetitive.

Editing helps construct a narrative. Editing is so commonly used that we don't recognise it. Editing is normally invisible. Editing can be used to condense long, boring activities into quick bursts of visual information. The simplest edit is the cut. It is called this because in old-fashioned filmmaking, they found the best bits of footage and spliced them one after the other.

In the assassination scene in 'North by Northwest', after Roger Thornhill gets out of the car and enters the United Nations building, there are 26 edits. They are most frequent when Thornhill and Mr Townsend are talking.

In Alfred Hitchcock's 'Psycho', the pace of the editing in the shower scene when Marion is killed is fast to create tension and excitement. However, after her death, the editing becomes slower.

• Dissolve - One scene dissolves into another, overlapping for a moment.
• Fade in/Fade out - One scene fades out to black completely, then another fades in.
• Wipes - One scene wipes across the screen, revealing or replacing the next one. This can happen in any direction.
• Iris - The next scene replaces the last by appearing from the centre like the iris of an eye.
• Jump Cuts - Two scenes that feature a common element right after one another, so something stays the same

The trailer for the 2012 horror film 'Sinister' involves a lot of quick fades to a black screen, dissolves and jump cuts.