In this blogpost, I analyzed the editing in the first 2 minutes of Twilight: New Moon
The camera cuts to another shot of Bella pushing through more people. As she gets closer to the camera, the editor uses a jump-cut and the scenery completely changes to Bella pushing through pine trees; not realizing this transition of scenery, Bella keeps running then suddenly stops to look around, realizing the change (0:55-1:04)
With another jump-cut, the rest of the location is revealed to show Bella in a meadow of flowers and dolly-ins to her walking toward something. The editor uses eye-line match again to show that Bella is walking toward another person. (1:05-1:14)The scene uses these editing elements to convey that Bella is an otherworldly -possibly dream- state.
The camera cuts to Bella's face, then, to an old woman's face who is in the same meadow. The scene cuts back to Bella's confused face and back to a long-shot of the old woman waving, then, back to Bella also waving. (1:15-1:27)
Bella turns around and Edward walks out from behind some trees. The camera cuts to a wide shot of Bella turned towards Edward. The camera cuts to a close-up shot of Edward walking toward Bella and a reverse shot is used to show Bella warning Edward to not show himself and back to Edward, who continues walking. (1:16-1:40)
The camera tracks to Edward walking toward Bella and joining hands with her, the shot dollys out as Bella and Edward walk forward and there is a cross cut to the old woman walking toward them. A reverse shot is used between Edward, Bella, and the old woman as they walk toward each other (1:41-2:00)
These scenes along with the editing are put together to convey that Bella is not in regular reality and even suggest that she is in a dream. The audience is encouraged to feel suspenseful about the climax of this scene.
The clip that I referenced can be found here!
