Editing: Shutter Island (2010) & A Most Wanted Man (2014)

Walter Murch's rule of editing states that there are six key points that editor's must focus on when working, these were:

1) Emotion (51%)

2) Story (23%)

3) Rhythm (10%)
4) Eye-trace: directing the audience's attention to the scene (7%)
5) Two-Dimensional plane of screen: relation of objects to each other (5%)

6) Three-Dimensional space of action: how the actors/objects relate to each other in the space (4%)

I analysed how each element of Walter Murch's rule was used in the trailers for Shutter Island and A Most Wanted Man.

SHUTTER ISLAND (2010)

DIRECTOR= MARTIN SCORSESE

A MOST WANTED MAN

DIRECTOR= ANTON CORBIJN