Before the film has started, during the institutional information (Working title ect.) digetic sound of sirens signifiy the action genre, and also represent the the busy lifestyle of a police man, or the police occupation.
This then contrasts with the first long shot, which starts the pace slow as it creates enigma: Who is this man walking towards the camera? Other sound effects can also be herd such as a cocked gun and a cell gate shutting. Cocked guns is famous iconograpy for action films.
The montage sequence of the film, is used to introduce the protagonist, Nichols Angel. The montage consists of mainly action, or at least fast paced events. The shots are arranged in a way where, the audience view the past and present: flashbacks. While the voice over introduces himself, and what he has been though, it its surtured with flashbacks.
The way the narrative is presented is also shown by the editing: the present shot of him walking through the building, almost signifies his journey through his past. In particular, when the protagonist walks through a door, the audience are then in another room, in his flashback.
One of the effects i've seen was ghosting, which is like a delayed effect, which in this case signifies the amount of arrests the protagonist has done. A film still was also used during his police training.
Camera movements, in particular fast zooms and fast pans work well with the editing as they help transition to the next shot, smoothly, but in a fast almost efficient way.
The non-digetic music also helps speed the pace up as the music is racy, in particular with the fast pace voice over.
I was wondering how Dickens' fast paced editing works. I realised its just a case of using many shots of the same action. But with each shot there are differences. For example he might toggle between a close up and a medium shot. It appears fastpaced because the audience have to keep ajusting to the slight changes: as soon as they realise its a close up shot, its a medium shot again. This creates a fast pace. Other changes of shots to the same events is: different angles, different locations or different people. Therefore to edit in the style of Dickens, I have to consider the camera work too.
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