Editing 4
Split Screen
Last week we had hit a slight dead end to new ideas of how to edit our sequence as we had done all the continuity shots. In this week we saw an opening sequence from a foreign french film called Meserine. All of our group were really inspired by this opening as it was simple but yet very effective.
As we had gotten very inspired by this sequence we decided to use the same concept for our opening sequence and put our own spin on it. This was convenient for us as a majority of our sequence was of our main character walking through London which the audience would start to find boring and loose interest in.
We were able to corporate the same effect of shots as we had taken multiple shots of the same action. We came in handy as it was vital for us to achieve the same look as Mesrine. Although we did have more than one shot type for the same action, if we had decided to use the Mesrine style of opening our sequence initially we would have been able to achieve the style better by possibly using more than one camera at the same time when shooting.
Having now officially determined to use this style for opening our sequence. We had got taught how to exactly do the method of split screening, which is the style of the Mesrine. This process was easier than it looked. We had done the split screen on Final Cut so we didn't need to transfer shots we just worked with the current shots on the timeline. I am glad to say that i thought that I thought I took a handle to doing the split screening well. As other members of my group had done and were doing the editing and felt more comfortable doing that instead.
Sunday 26 February 2012
Saturday 11 February 2012
Week 6 February 6th-10th
Editing 3
We have now got all of our shots planned in the right place on the timeline, it was now time to start doing the proper editing.
As we didn't really know where to start our editing as we had so many thought the logical thing that we decided to do was to start at the beginning of the sequence.
We had began with doing the continuity shot first along the sequence. Very early into the editing we hit a problem as we had realised one of the good continuity shot that we had of our character crossing a road had an implication to it. We had realised that in one shot there was a car and in the next when the tramp is crossing the car turns into a bicycle. We had spent a while trying to figure out what we could do to over come this and got teachers opinions. One of the alternatives was that we could have a blackout,with a credit or title name, in the exact moment when the car turn into a bike.
Once we had thought of all the alternatives to this situation we decided to move on to another part of the sequence as we were spending a lot of time on one part when there was still a lot more to still edit. We were going to come back to that problem with a fresh mind and new solution.
As we had shown our teacher what we had done so far, we came across a smaller problem as one of the extras in the sequence looked straight at the camera and we were unable to use that shot. We needed to look at the other alternative shots which we were going to now use.
By the end of the week we had began to get frustrated as we had hit a dead end to where to continue with the editing so we had thought of only editing certain bits of the sequence that we wanted to instead of doing it in a particular order.
HALF TERM
When we get back...
We have now got all of our shots planned in the right place on the timeline, it was now time to start doing the proper editing.
As we didn't really know where to start our editing as we had so many thought the logical thing that we decided to do was to start at the beginning of the sequence.
We had began with doing the continuity shot first along the sequence. Very early into the editing we hit a problem as we had realised one of the good continuity shot that we had of our character crossing a road had an implication to it. We had realised that in one shot there was a car and in the next when the tramp is crossing the car turns into a bicycle. We had spent a while trying to figure out what we could do to over come this and got teachers opinions. One of the alternatives was that we could have a blackout,with a credit or title name, in the exact moment when the car turn into a bike.
Once we had thought of all the alternatives to this situation we decided to move on to another part of the sequence as we were spending a lot of time on one part when there was still a lot more to still edit. We were going to come back to that problem with a fresh mind and new solution.
As we had shown our teacher what we had done so far, we came across a smaller problem as one of the extras in the sequence looked straight at the camera and we were unable to use that shot. We needed to look at the other alternative shots which we were going to now use.
By the end of the week we had began to get frustrated as we had hit a dead end to where to continue with the editing so we had thought of only editing certain bits of the sequence that we wanted to instead of doing it in a particular order.
HALF TERM
When we get back...
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