Friday, 27 September 2013

Unit 16 - Developing Editing Techniques

In camera editing is a simple form of editing which you can do without any needs of editing software. In camera editing can be effective for some pieces of recording however it can be also be ineffective as you only have one shot at filming the correct shot. Therefore it requires practice and time. The pioneer who was first to use in camera editing was George Melies in his "The Vanishing Lady". Where he makes the women disappear.




To create this video we first of all in a group we planned out what are film would contain, who would be in it, where we were shooting and any props that would be involved. We put all these ideas into consideration and produced a detailed time line of the shoot we would be taking. In the first shot we filmed David going down the stairs. We used this shot in our video as it had a rather good lighting effect as well as the camera angle was good which allowed us to get some of the stairs and David in the clip. We could have improved this part of the clip if there was more space to place the tripod, as there was not much room to get the perfect angle.

In the second shot we then recorded David coming down the stairs, we recorded this shot as a continuation of the first clip. This shot allowed us to show the viewers that David had fully walked down the stairs and helped move on to the next clip.

Thirdly in continuation of the third clip we have David walking out the door. The opening of the door shows the continuation as its automatic it looks like David is opening it as he finishes walking down the stairs. The bad thing about the shooting of this clip was the timing in which David is coming down the stairs and exiting through the building.

Next inline we have a meet up this is where David and Tony meet to journey to the study room. This is the bit of the film where we introduced talking. The thing we could have improved on in this clip is the fact I laughed as I recorded it.

In addition after this clip we have two viewpoints of David and Tony walking down the side of the building. We also have them talking to induce some more sound to the clip. We first show them entering the sidewalk, and then we see them exiting after to then walk onto the next scene.

Next we have a window shot were we see David and Tony walking up the ramp through the building then up the stairs in an orderly fashion. However the shot was limited because of space therefore we could have improved it if we had more space.

More over we have David and Tony walking up the stairs however this shot was a fail as is David overlapping tony on the stairs where as in the clip before we had Tony in front of David.

Then we had a close up shot of David placing the card on the door and the beep mad this clip due to the close up.

Finally the last clip we had the door closing behind as they entered the study room. However this shot was a bit of a fail as you could see Billys arm as he was closing the door. We could try and eliminate this by maybe shooting at a different angle

In this video what i think we done well was the use of continuation of the clips, however to imporve it i think we could have added more sound as well as practice the clips more before recording them. Also control the laughing so it doesn't affect the clip.

The pros of in camera editing are that it is much easier to get the continuation effect. The fact that you can stop the recording and change scene or remove a prop etc makes this effect very effective. As this effect was easy for me as the specific scenes and the way i recorded them. However i am aware if we was recording a conversation the in camera editing would we a con as the conversation would be unnatural.

The cons of in camera editing are that you can only take the shot once. Therefore it requires a lot of practice before achieving the perfect shot. Also the fact you can’t rewind back makes it harder for you to see what you have recorded. But if you do record back for instance to get the clip back where you left of is really hard, therefore what you have recorded may be over written

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