You have worked effectively as part of a
team and made sound progress in a quiet and methodical way. you seem to enjoy the
course, particularly the practical elements and your skills are developing as
the course progresses.
The web-log is a point of concern as the
accuracy is lacking in research and the detail is not evident in the posts. the web-log evidences your development and is assessed. At the moment it is very thin.
There are deadlines on Friday 16th
October to get two assignments completed, neither of which are pass standard as
yet.
It is essential that you carry on working
outside of the lesson in extended learning activities.
Discuss your own work further in light of
the principles of video editing.
SMART targets
Ensure that writing is punctuated with capital
letters and grammatical sentence structures.
Thomas Edison was an
inventor responsible for creating the light bulb, was also responsible fro
creating a thing called the kinetoscope, a recording camera, in 1891, he
acquired a patent for it and became the known inventor. He was the one who
created in-camera editing, where no post production editing was done and it was
all filmed and edited from shot to shot.
Lumierre brothers The Lumierre brothers were famous for being
considered the first filmmakers in history thanks to their invention the
cinematograph which could allow for mass viewings of film unlike the
kinetoscope which could only be viewed by one person at a time. All of their
film editing was done in-camera, no post edits, they just started recording and
stopped recording and that was it. George Melies George Melies was a French film director
famous for his film, A trip to the moon. He was the first person to use
dissolves in films, where there is a gradual transition to another scene
instead of just cutting to it. here is a film produce by George called a trip to the moon This was one of the first big budget movies filmed with props and a backstage in a studio, it showcases special effects such as the face on the moon and being launched to and back from the moon. Sergei Eisenstein
Sergei Eisenstein was a Russian film director who pioneered
in montages, he originally worked in theater until he saw a film and decided to
go onto directing and editing films himself. His most well known film is
battleship Potemkin, with the famous Odessa steps scene. A montage is a series
of images placed next to or after each other to create a meaning, Sergei makes
use of this in his film strike, using footage of cows being slaughtered
in-between shots of a battlefield as an abstract way of saying that they were
slaughtered like animals. I made a video with my group to try and create a montage, using myself, Micheal, and a lemon, without words, it shows that the lemon becomes a source of fun and when the lemon is lost, you can see that we were sad at the loss even without the use of dialogue.
Walter murch Walter Murch was a film
director responsible for directing the film Apocalypse now, a film set in Vietnam
about an American assassin. He edited in a way in the opening so that he
manipulated time and space by mixing shots of the main character in his room,
staring at a ceiling fan, and having a helicopter transparent in the background
with the rotors in the same place as the ceiling fan. the mixture of image's layered on top of each other could be used to represent that the character its a mess, confusing past events with reality, and you understand that when the half drunk whiskey bottle is also shown that he is not the best at coping with the past. even when he is in a safe place such as his room, he feels insecure and scared about the war in Vietnam. my group tried to create our own video about manipulation of time and space in it, you can see that we mixed the rule of continuity into it with camera techniques to make sure that the audience could follow onward without being confused. at the end the main character woke up, realizing it was a dream.
Fernando Meirelles
Fernando was responsible for directing a TV series called City Of God,
a series that was set in Rio De Janeiro and made use of MTV style editing, a
style of editing that made use of quick scenes and quick cuts, this was because
it was to suit the MTV generation, which grew up learning to process more
information than older generations and presumably lost interest much quicker,
so the idea was to keep feeding information to keep them interested and keep
viewers. my group made a video trying to imitate the MTV style editing of the city of god, we have a struggle and a chase scene close within each other with cuts showing the faces of the characters and the lemon, similar to the opening chase scene is city of god with the gang and the chicken, there is music added to the video to create a sense of chaos and intensity. here's the city of god scene and here's our chase scene
They both showcase parallel editing, where two points of view are happening at the same time and progressing with each other, to show two ends of the story, and when they meet it shows continuity.
