Week 7 20th-24th February

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.