Month: March 2022

POV Scene Research Cornell Notes

CueNotes
How do they edit the effect?

What does their camera rigging look like?







Editing in opening and closing black spaces to mimic blinking


Both hands are visible and are used

Frantic cuts and movements to show panic and a rising tension when the character is late for something.

Subtle daily routine stuff is shown at the beginning, like cracking your knuckles, finding where your glasses are, turning off your alarm etc.

Camera movements are planned very well and are very careful; a result of careful movement by the person handling the camera rig.

Scenes are take you out of POV have a specific role of establishing backgrounds, immersing the viewer in someway

Andrew Stanton Storytelling – Cornell Notes

CueNotes
Story telling is like Joke telling
Make someone care: aesthetically
The beginning of stories should have some kind of hook, a promise that the story is going to be worth your time.
Hide the fact that your making the audience work for information
Absents of information attracts viewers
Unifying theory of 2+2
Characters and stories of a spine to them
Change is fundamental to stories, being static kills a story, cause life moves on.
Drama is anticipation mingled with uncertainty.
Story telling has guidelines, not hard rules
Can you invoke wonder?
Capturing your truth with your feeling.

Summary

The essence of story telling is to make the audience work for the information that you don’t provide, and providing that information makes it boring. To make people want that information, you need to hook the viewers; create a promise that their time is worth looking into the given information. These stories must be ever changing, a story without change is one that isn’t worth watching. The goal should be to invoke wonder into the viewers, capturing your truth in the format of cinematic storytelling. Anticipate without knowing.

Production Project: The Perfect School – Film Session 5

the Haunted house
“the Haunted house” by freestone is marked with CC BY-NC-SA 2.0

SUMMARY

Role

Editor

Intention (SMART Goal)

By May 10th, as a part of team 5, I will have practiced the art of visual story telling through well placed cuts and edits by studying Chris Dickens carefully placed cuts and where he prolongs cut.

PRE-PRODUCTION – INQUIRY

Leader(s) in the Field / Exemplary Work(s)

Chris Dickens

Chris Dickens is a film and television editor who is popular for his films such as Shaun of The Dead, Hot Fuzz and Slumdog millionaire, a movie that he won an academy, BAFTA and American Cinema Editors award for best film editing. He went to Hailsham Community College, then graduated from the Arts University of Bournemouth. His use of editing and his placement of cuts amplify the comedy while also efficiently leading us through the story in a fun way.

Training Source(s)

Time StampNotes
1:30

2:30


2:53

3:10


3:30


7:30		press c -> Cut in premiere

Watch your clip over and over again and be highly critical of it and be honest with yourself

Make sure your audience understands your editing/ cutting

Position and scale: Direct the focus of viewer through editing
Added motion blur can add to the smoothness

Every cut should be purposeful, and should direct the viewer in the direction you want them to see.

Transitions: How you get from a to b is very important (pacing)

Project Timeline

Pre-production

  1. Brainstorm ideas
  2. Create storyboard
  3. Create slideshow and share with all team members
  4. Write screenplay
  5. Decide on location and character roles
  6. Gather/make props, costumes, equipment

Production

  1. Set up shots
  2. Prepare blocking for each scene
  3. Film all scenes
  4. Record all sounds/dialogue and create music

Post Production

  1. Put all recordings for audio and video in shared Google Drive folder
  2. Label final shots
  3. Decide which scenes to keep, get rid of, or re-shoot
  4. Transfer audio and clips into Premiere Pro
  5. Put clips in order and make all edits
  6. Put audio in and sync up to video
  7. Make all finishing touches
  8. Export final film
  9. Add evidence to slideshow
  10. Present film and slideshow to the class and receive feedback

Proposed Budget

Nothing, under paying our crew is the essence of filmmaking.

PRODUCTION – ACTION

The (FILM, SOUND, or GAME Creation)

Skills Commentary

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1W66h1suGshWFPv6U5NqE8MBUi5BQllYTfbBueyggJA8/edit#slide=id.g129686acda7_2_14

My role for this film was as editor, my evidence is in the slideshow

POST-PRODUCTION – REFLECTION

21st Century Skills

Ways of Thinking (Creativity, Innovation, Critical Thinking, Problem Solving)

During this session, a problem we faced was with how we would film in POV. One of the issues we thought about was how consistent we wanted the perspective to be, since staying in POV would lock us in with the scenes we could shoot, while breaking POV would give us more options, but at the expense of immersion. In the end we decided to lock ourselves into POV, which in the end went very well. Another thing that went in hand with filming in POV was creating an experience that felt like the perspective of a person, like the shaking of the head to show the nervousness of the character or various speeds of moving the camera to express other emotions.

Ways of Working (Communication & Collaboration)

An issue we faced near the end of production was how our editor(me) got covid the week of finishing the recording, and I was unavailable and unable to edit remotely from home. I communicated with the group with my predicament and was able to have another team mate take on editing while I was gone, then I would overlook the editing after I got back.

Tools for Working (Info & Media Literacy)

For this film, the editing was done in Adobe Premiere. I used many sources to learn about editing, the primary one I used was “How to Edit: Ultimate Beginner’s Guide” by Finzar.

Ways of Living in the World (Life & Career)

When creating a film for a project in a team, in times where you can’t and aren’t able to work; you realize that it’s not always about you, and sometimes you need to sacrifice your own growth for the better of the film.

Reactions to the Final Version

“Good work on so many levels, good work” – James

Self-Evaluation of Final Version

I think our film was successful because it is Simple, Unexpected, Concrete and Emotional. To start, the premise of our film was very simple and easy to understand and the twist that the school was messed up didn’t come to much of a surprise, but was well executed with the music and well placed sound effects, while The strictly POV perspective of the film creates a sense of immersion and ties the film all together.

Grammar and Spelling

Grammarly

Editor

Merja

Story of Film -Episode 2- The Hollywood Dream

Miami International Airport
“Miami International Airport” by Junior Henry. is marked with CC BY-NC-SA 2.0.

1918-1928: The Triumph of American Film…

  • The Thief of Bagdad (1924) dir. Raoul Walsh
    • Made Bagdad decretive
    • Shadow lighting
    • low focus
    • Clever cutting with consistent characters facing
    • Spacing that isn’t confusing
    • Uses anticipation
    • Classical < Romantic
    • Reality breaks fantasy

…And the First of its Rebels