Monday, 13 January 2025

Classwork: Editing Practice

 This blog post contains the work I did in my lesson on how to successfully edit. My teacher filmed the footage but I edited it together. My teacher also provided the template for the blog post.


Why is continuity editing important? 

Continuity editing includes making sure that items like props or costumes stay consistent from scene to scene. But the more important work lies in editing shots together in a way that leaves viewers thoroughly grounded in both time and space.

Different types of continuity edit

- Straight cut (cut)

- Eyeline match

- Shot/reverse shot

- Cutaway/insert

- Match cut

Footage

Here is the footage that my teacher shot which utilises a variety of camera angles and movements. The scene is very simple, it involves a student standing up and leaving the classroom. A single shot here might be quite boring for the audience, by editing and combining hte shots together we can make the scene feel more dynamic.



My editing process

I used capcut for my editing


The first thing I did was add all the clips together in order of the actions.

Then, I cut off any unnecessary scenes such as the extra footage in the beginning of each clip.

I had way too many cuts, however I was experimenting and was aiming to make this simple boring scene more exciting, which is why it appears more fast-paced.

I made sure that each cuts match each other such as both hands in his pocket and which feet was forward. I made sure that the cuts between the clips match each other. 

Lastly, I edited so that the direction of the clips would be to the right.

Here is my final scene.



Reflection: Editing this is very simple, I had fun editing it. I know not to put too much cuts on scenes that have not much things going on and I will put that information to use in the future. 

Monday, 6 January 2025

Shooting Practice: Horror Scene Recreation

This post contains a mini project that helped us learn how to shoot a cinematic scene. We did this as a group


Our teacher told us to find a scene from a movie in our genre to recreate. Our genre is horror, we chose Jennifer's Body (2009)



Storyboard:



Our replica:



Mise en scene 
Problem: We couldn't control the lighting as we were filming outside the classroom. The lighting for a horror movie especially for this one requires mostly low key lighting and since it was sunny today we didn't have access to that. 
Solution: Our teammates Max and Kenneth decided to adjust the video's lighting using the video editing apps to get the same feel as the clip from the movie. 
Next time: We will find a place with artificial lighting so we can easily control the lighting without much help from the video editing app to give it a more natural look instead of artificially increasing something. However, if this is not possible we will use the solution mentioned previously. 


Problem: In the first scene an actress looked at the camera. It's a subtle detail but our goal is so it would match perfectly to the scene we are trying to recreate. 
Solution: Our team tried to edit the video. However they couldn't fully fix that scene so we didn't find the right solution at that time. 
Next time:  we will rehearse and practice many times before we actually film the scenes. If not we can do multiple takes at the time and carefully look at the footage before deciding on another take. However, if all these repercussions fail then we can figure out how to edit it out. 

Sound 
Problem: We didn't have any problems with the sound as we use audio from the original clip which is very clear. 
Next time: I think we will continue doing this and for our upcoming project we will pre record the audio for the dialogue so we can get a clear sound. I also learned it's best not to record audio while we are recording a scene 



Behind-the-scenes: 


Reflection: It took several takes to get a good shot. We had problems remembering the script, actions, and camera angles. However we got the hang of it and got some decent shots.

Classwork: Editing Practice

  This blog post contains the work I did in my lesson on how to successfully edit. My teacher filmed the footage but I edited it together. M...