In the spirit of the latest assignment this next Editing Review will be in the comedy genre. The Gilmore Girls in classed as a Comedy-Drama though the comedy element is one that requires a unique sense of humour as the characters are all zany and fast talking and the show is heavily relied on pop culture references, spanning from music to film to theatre. Every year or so when I come back and re-watch all seven seasons I will understand a new reference thus making the context it is said in funny. This is because between the last time I would have watched it I will have been exposed to more films or music or just general facts etc.
The Gilmore Girls is based on a mother and daughter relationship and the mothers relationship with her parents after she ran away from home at sixteen when she got pregnant. Due to financial obligation having Friday Night Dinners with her parents is a running theme throughout the seasons.
Edited By: David L. Bertman
Filming Dinner scenes is especially hard when you have more than three characters. This is because when there are three or less you can have a "fourth wall" where the camera can get in all the characters face-on in one shot. When you add more people into the equation it becomes a lot harder to film and therefore edit. This scene opens really nicely focusing on Lorelai who is the dominant conversationalist and does a nice sweep to then show all the characters at the table, though Richards face is half masked but unavoidable. Therefore with that in mind the first cut is to a direct shot of his face. The scene plays on in a serious of cut-to going from talker to talker before ending the way it started with a shot of all four characters, this time it is okay to use where Rory sits as the "Fourth Wall" whereby we see only the back of her head as she has already been established in the scene. The classical soft music in the background is a juxtaposition with the zany, animated and pointless conversation that they are having and the overall whit and quip of Lorelai.
This scene does have many cuts because of the position of the characters but outside of the Friday Night Dinner scenes the show has a very "Walk and Talk" dynamic which allows for longer scenes and therefore fewer cuts, which works well because as you can tell from the clip about the characters can talk for long periods of time without inturuption, therefore maybe needing only one responsive nod from their companion.
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