Analysing Editing from The City Of God

 Graphic Match

A graphic match is where a shot from one matches the shot in the next. For example, there is a lens flair in the middle of two sinister looking characters which then cuts to a flash of a camera, held by a boy, in the same place on the screen. Here the use of a graphic match has been used to show the link between the main character in this story and a ruff favela. The scene cuts from  disturbing images of chickens being brutally sliced and boiled by barbaric slum dwellers to a young venerably boy with an old camera. this makes the boy seem caught up and related to these characters.  

 Cross-cutting

A cross cut is used to relate two subjects from different scenes/shots to each other. For example, here there is a shot of parts of a chicken that has been sliced up, which then cuts suddenly to a chicken getting its throat sliced off. This cross-cut is used the show the violence that takes place in this favela and that everything, in some cases people are in danger. It also makes use fear for the boy that is connected to these cruel people. This edit also helps us to emphasis the harsh reality of living in the slums of Brazil.

  

This edit makes use feel very worried for the boy in this scene. This is because it shows the boy in a mid shot the quickly zooms out and as this happens a logo that resembles bars covers him making it seem the boy is trapped. The speed in which the camera zooms away from the boy shows use how easily the boys life can be threatened.