Satoshi Kon - Editing Space & Time

This video talks about the influence that Satoshi Kon made on editing, and how his animation changed the styles of editing had influenced many famous directors, like Christopher nolan and Darren Arnofsky. His particular style of using graphic matching scenes to cut, or wipes the screen with a character or object, or match cuts, became a unique way of moving from image to image scene to scene.

Satoshi Kon has made many films regarding dreams, memory, and conciseness, Can be shown in Paprika (2006 ), Memories (1995), Perfect blue (1997) His uses of editing can uniquely portrayal and creates this sense of space in his animation, it often brings the audience in to the perspective of the characters, with out even the audience noticing. Further creates mood and mise en scene that contributes to the entire narrative of the story. Making his films very fun to watch, and unpredictable.

This can particularly help in terms of the transition choice i could make in the film, in creating a better flow of the narrative, also further utilise this medium to express more complex ideas.