Creating Motivation

As an editor it's important that you find motivation for cuts you make, and the main priority to focus on are audience and story. Your the person that determines what you think will affect audiences in particular ways. When deciding how to create motivation within your film, you have to consider 5 factors in total, audience and story which I've already mentioned, and the other 3 are physical, character and general film. An example of creating motivation would be a character looking at something in a certain, then that shot is cut to a different one of what the character is looking at. This helps us to understand why she is looking at this in the way she is and we get a feeling of the purpose as to why the object is significant to her.