DIRECTIONS UNIT: SCOTT PILGRIM VS. THE WORLD

Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World was the 3rd film that he Directed and Wrote (First being Shaun of the Dead and Second being Hot Fuzz) however, this was the first time as a Film Director that Edgar worked with a cast that he hadn't worked with before. He would always work with Simon Pegg and Nick Frost with a lot of the cast being the same such as Martin Freeman, Bill Nightly, Michael Smiley, etc. But with this it was a new cast and a film where Edgar began to test new techniques.

Edgar's style
In 2010 when this was released. Edgar had already developed a very well known style for Directing with his characters and camera work as I covered in Shaun of the Dead write up. With his close up technique, he had moved for ward with that to use it to make boring scenes such as paperwork much more exciting and actually made it more than just comedy but a way to make the film more exciting and really bring some life and action to sections of the script which could be written off as boring.
As well, with Hot Fuzz Edgar had kept the idea of characters being as realistic as possible with the whole point of being set in Britain, so where Sargent Angle is a policeman who takes his job far too seriously, that would be commonly known as a 'jobs worth' in Britain and is joked about in every work place. As well you get people who are 'half arsed' and won't care much about their job which was the rest of the police at the station.

Scott Pilgrim is based off the graphic novel series with the same name and tells the story of Scott who falls in love with a Amazon.ac delivery girl and ends up having to battle her 7 deadly ex's. This film is between a mixture of video game/comic style graphics seen throughout the film. It's a much different film to what Edgar had directed in the past and from this, although we still see his close up sequence throughout the film with things like writing and boring things like that which Edgar likes to do.

Lighting
Edgar's biggest development in this film isn't with his direction of the actors. Since over the top characters which this has, is something that Edgar has done before in Spaced and Asylum. The lighting was the biggest change for Edgar and the transitions between scenes. Edgar chose to literally cut the lights on set for a transition between the scenes. Just like a blackout on a stage production. Since this film is like a video game one minute and a comic book the next the black out works so well. As well we get a lot of track shots with transitions and montage sequences which work as the camera always works around. The camera is always moving and works with the action constantly.