Video Editing = Unit 16 + Unit 21

Workflow 

1.  Ingest Footage
2. Review/Mark Footage
3. Rough Cut
4. Finesse Cut 
5. Locked Cut = Export 

Non - Linear Editing systems

• Final Cut Pro
• Adobe Premier Pro
• Avid Media Composer
• Sony Vegas 

Sound Testing

Sound Testing Clip

Video - An Introduction

Moving Images

The reason we film/video is to tell stories. Some are big (Cinema, Television) Some are small (Advertising, Promo)

The Process

The film making process is split into three parts:

1. Pre - Production
2. Production
3. Post - Production

Shooting Ratio - 10:1 (For one hour of footage you need to shoot 10 hours)

Production: Who does what?

Camera Operator/Cinematographer/Director of Photography - Sets up entire scene, size of shot, framing, lighting.

Director - Come up with the shots, tells the story visually. 

Producer - In sole charge of everything.

Lighting Technician - To get the lighting right, make sure the film has the right look. 

Types of Production

Single Camera Production: Only using one camera throughout the whole production

• Feature films
• Documentary 
• TV Drama
• (On Location) 

Multi - Camera Production:

• Live Broadcast
• Pre-Recorded TV Show 
• (In a Studio)

How To Make Moving Images: 

Light is everything we see. Once you understand light you begin to understand video. 

Soft Light - Diffused Light 

Hard Light - Direct light

Contrast - Difference between light and dark

• Soft light is LOW CONTRAST 
• Hard light is HIGH CONTRAST 

The Shining review

For the past two, nearly three lessons we have been watching the film the shining. I thought that the film was very confusing and disturbing. At certain times in the film you think you have the gist of the narrative, but then something else weird, but creative happens witch throws you off and makes you think again.
I thought the actors performances were good but they were very dramatic and over enthusiastic. In a way though the way they were being dramatic could be dismissed because you could understand why they were being that way. I thought Wendy Torrence was an unusual choice of actress because she wasn't the typical horror/thriller actress. Normally people would expect a ditzy, attractive girl who can easily be tricked and killed. But then throughout the film you could begin to warm to Wendy and like her more because you would feel sorry for her because of how she was treated by jack. I thought that Jack Nicholson was extremely well suited for playing Jack Torrence because he had that creepy look in his eyes and he looks like he would be an intimidating kind of person. I imagine that it is hard to play a character who has mental health issues because if it is played well then it will seem too fake. But Nicholson did it very well. Danny was played well by Danny Lloyd especially as he is only a child.]

What did the critics think?

New York Times:

" Meticulously detailed and never less than fascinating, The Shining may be the first movie that ever made its audience jump with a title that simply says "Tuesday.""

The Guardian:

"Instead of the cramped darkness and panicky quick editing of the standard-issue scary movie, Kubrick gives us the eerie, colossal, brilliantly lit spaces of the Overlook Hotel (created in Elstree Studios, Hertfordshire), shot with amplitude and calm."

Film 4:
"One of the late 20th century's finest tales of the supernatural and a justly famous classic."


A good example of unusual camera shots is where Wendy is trying to get away from Jack and he is following her up the stairs but the camera is used from a high angle over Wendy's shoulder and a low angle from over Jack's shoulder. This is unusual for this kind of scene because jack is the one with the power over Wendy not the other way round so why has Kubrick done this? Is he trying to show that maybe Wendy is the one with power? I think he might be trying to show this because he could be using these camera shots to portray their mental power not physical power as Jack is loosing his mind and Wendy is in more of a healthy mental state than him. 

The Shining Notes 1

Sound Unit 38 Lesson 2

Location Recording

1. Choose the correct mic
2. Mic position = Above/below 
3. Use a muffler to make the sound more clean.

In the studio

• Perfect Acoustics to make the sound perfectly clean.
• Sound Control
• Additional Sound Recordings to change sounds if they arent suitable on the first recording.
• Foley Sound Recordings to add in extra sounds for emphasis or fill in gaps where there needs to be sound
• ADR = Additional Dialogue Recording 

Mixers, Recorders & Monitoring

• Studio - Use a mixing desk
• Levels - Volume
• On Location - Field Mixer
• Listening = Monitoring 
• MIXERS DO NOT RECORD 
• Headphones can help prevent feedback.
• Monitor Speakers

Feedback is where the mic records sounds coming from the mic and from the speaker because the mic is too close to the speaker. Be careful with feedback, put headphones on and turn the speaker down.

Auteurs

What is an Auteur?

A film maker who influences their movies so much that they rank as their author.

• Charles Chaplin
• Woody Allen
• Lars Von Trier
• Mike Leigh
• Quentin Tarantino
• George Romero
• Fredrico Fellini
• David Lynch
• Niel Marshall
• Steve McQueen
• Mel Brooks

Man on Fire

In man on fire, the 7 minutes of footage we watched had lots of different camera angles and shots. Some scenes were sped up to fit in with atmosphere of the club and the man running into the club. It had very low-key lighting because of the setting. When people were talking fast the close up of the characters were switching quickly too fit in all of the dialogue. There were some high angle wide shots so we could see all off the setting of the club and of everyone dancing.  It also contained a split screen of 4 different scenes. Wide shot shows a rundown setting in the background of the frame. The sunglasses make him look a bit shifty, the audience wonders what he is doing there and if he is up to something. He changes his costume to show the audience that he isn't a villain but he is a gangster. The blue colour wash makes it seem more mysterious and shady. Most of the props were guns and a photo of the little girl who he was trying to find.  The lighting flashes a lot to make it seem more fast paced. There is a P.O.V. shot where it shows what he is holding close up to the camera. There is an over the shoulder shot when Denzel Washington is  interrogating his victim and the effect is to show that they are quite close together so it's kind of intimidating for the victim There are subtitles next to the person that's speaking to show how loud the place is. The bits that are subtitled are the bits that we need to focus on the most. When it slows down it does it to highlight important things happening. The camera pans to show the whole scene. They have overlaid two scenes on top of each other to fit in with it being a rave and to show that the people outside still aren't aware of what is happening. Flashbacks to give the audience important information. 

Sound Unit 38 Lesson 1 Outcome

Who does what? 

• Sound recordist - holds the boom pole, recording the clean audio 
• Sound mixer - person who does post production 
• Foley artist - someone who creates sound in a studio/represents sound in production. They create realistic sounds in a studio so if the sound designer wants to make sounds more prominent or put more sound in for emphasis they would go to the foley artist who would produce the sounds.
• Composer /Score writer - come up with and creates music
• Sound designer - decides which songs need recording, designs entire sound for film production 

What do we record?

• Dialogue - Speech coming from individuals or groups of people.
• Ambient/Atmosphere - Animate, Inanimate could be a wildtrack, a lavier mic or any other omni directional mic because they pick up all sound.
• SFX (Sound FX) - Foley, Real world. The sound FX can be foley sounds from a studio or real life sounds that are added on to make sounds bolder.

Sound for video

• Sync Sound - MUST be in sync to make sense, such as a person talking or popping a balloon. The pop of the balloon needs to be in sync with the action of the balloon being popped just like a persons voice needs to be in sync with their mouths moving.
• Non Sync Sound - doesn't have to be in sync to make sense such as a bus going down a road. the sound the bus makes doesn't have to be perfectly in sync with it moving. 
• Mix - Balanced sound 
• Wildtrack - Recording of ambient sound

Recording Environment

• Recording somewhere like next to a motorway isn't a good recording environment. This is because its background noise that is too loud or not suitable for what is actually being recorded.
•  Must have the right equipment for the right environment. If you need to record a wildtrack, an omni-directional mic is the correct mic to use as they records everything around it.

Microphones

• Shotgun Mic - Directional/Cardioid
• Omni - Directional Mic - Picks up sound from everywhere, for recording a wildtrack.
• Lavier Mic = Omni - Directional

Induction Video

Finishing scream filming and continuing editing

Today we finished off filming the final shots of our scream scene.

We came back into the classroom and carried on with the editing. I had done the editing previously so the other people in my group were doing it. I learnt how to unlink the audio and visual and delete the audio off the video.  I also learnt how to download music and import it into final cut pro.

Scream filming first day

Today me and my group (Jade, Vicky, Jess and Nicole) began to film our spoof version of a scene from the movie Scream.
The filming went well as we had gotten half of the filming done in two hours which was what i had expected as our location was the toilets so we were getting interruptions throughout the two hours from people wanting to use the toilets. We tried to work fast so we could try and avoid as many interruptions as possible.

The only downfall we had was that we were filming in a toilet so people where other students were coming in and out wanting to use them and it did slow us down a bit because we had to stop filming when people were coming in.

Scream Planning

In my group (Me, Jade, Nicole, Jess and Vicky) we are creating our own interpretation of a scene from the movie scream. Today we have been shown how to use cameras, how to book equipment and we have also been sorting out camera angles for our scene and how we are going to make the scene our own. We have decided to spoof the scene and make it comical as the film is the horror film. I will be playing the killer who we have turned into a killer gorilla with a banana gun. Jess will play Sindey who is the victim of the killer. Nicole and jade will be extras (Sindey's friends) and Vicky will be operating the camera.

We have been on location scouting to find a suitable cubicle, and found one. For our plan B if we cant use that particular toilet then we have found another toilet that is suitable for us to use.

Working in a group is good because more ideas can be discussed and people can help each other out if something needs improving. I get along with everyone in my group as i have got to know them well.