blog question: What are three perks of continuity editing that this article mentions? Why are they important? What are three rules mentioned later in the article that help you achieve good continuity? Why are they important?
Continuity editing allows the audience to hear what is happening, everyone can easily see what's happening, and it allows the audience to know the time and place. These allow the movie or episode to flow along the storyline easily. You must keep the camera at eye level, control the time of the shots, and remind the audience you are still in the same place. This is important, because without this, the shots will look jumpy when together and not let it flow as it was supposed to, thus going against the whole point of continuity.
Tuesday, October 25, 2016
Monday, October 24, 2016
early editing
blog question: What do you notice about early filmmakers in regards to editing? What similarities did you notice between early filmmakers and the mobile films that your classmates have made?
Early filmmakers didn't know much when it came to editing, they had long shots with many unneeded scenes due to the fact that they were unaware of what they could do. I noticed in the mobile films, there was a lot of scenes that could have been trimmed down and still allow the audience to understand what was going on.
Early filmmakers didn't know much when it came to editing, they had long shots with many unneeded scenes due to the fact that they were unaware of what they could do. I noticed in the mobile films, there was a lot of scenes that could have been trimmed down and still allow the audience to understand what was going on.
Thursday, October 20, 2016
organizing
blog question: Why is organizing your footage so important to editing? What are two things you found really helpful that you learned in this video?
Organizing your footage is important, because it keeps everything organized. By staying organized: you don't lose footage, editing time is faster, and gives a more professional approach to the entire outlook. I found the colour changing coding and brief descriptions most helpful. The colour change is really helpful when trying to pair clips and keep them easy to spot out of others, as well with the brief description. The brief description helps figure out what the clip is without watching it first.
Organizing your footage is important, because it keeps everything organized. By staying organized: you don't lose footage, editing time is faster, and gives a more professional approach to the entire outlook. I found the colour changing coding and brief descriptions most helpful. The colour change is really helpful when trying to pair clips and keep them easy to spot out of others, as well with the brief description. The brief description helps figure out what the clip is without watching it first.
Monday, October 17, 2016
editing unit goals
blog question: Lets set some goals for this new unit. Take a moment to determine three goals that you'd like to make that you can complete by the end of the editing unit. What are these three goals? Why have you chosen them?
By the end of this editing unit, I hope to learn more about the editing process as a whole, understand all the criteria clearly, and to put it into use in outside class projects I make separately. I would like to learn more about the editing process because this is the area I find most interest in when it comes to the film industry. In the past unit, I knew what the basics were but I didn't fully understand it, and I can't blame anyone but myself for that. Now I want to go into depth on actually understanding it all. I want to take steps to do outside projects as well just to push my learning process and to make my own work more efficient. In the other unit, I wanted to apply what I learned about filming into outside projects, but I didn't take my own goals seriously so didn't make any. Now that I am, I plan on including both units in my projects from now on.
By the end of this editing unit, I hope to learn more about the editing process as a whole, understand all the criteria clearly, and to put it into use in outside class projects I make separately. I would like to learn more about the editing process because this is the area I find most interest in when it comes to the film industry. In the past unit, I knew what the basics were but I didn't fully understand it, and I can't blame anyone but myself for that. Now I want to go into depth on actually understanding it all. I want to take steps to do outside projects as well just to push my learning process and to make my own work more efficient. In the other unit, I wanted to apply what I learned about filming into outside projects, but I didn't take my own goals seriously so didn't make any. Now that I am, I plan on including both units in my projects from now on.
Friday, October 14, 2016
post mobile film
blog question: How is your mobile film's post production working out? What are some challenges you are encountering? How do you plan on overcoming them and turn your rough cut in today?
Some challenges I'm facing is getting the movie to be long enough while also trying to keep the audience interested. Also finding music that wasn't copyrighted was difficult but thankfully not too hard. I plan on trying to make the intro and ending longer to meet the film minimun.
Some challenges I'm facing is getting the movie to be long enough while also trying to keep the audience interested. Also finding music that wasn't copyrighted was difficult but thankfully not too hard. I plan on trying to make the intro and ending longer to meet the film minimun.
Thursday, October 13, 2016
mobile film status
blog question: What is the status of your mobile film? Have you begun shooting? What is your plan to finish your film by the end of class Friday? What are some problems you are running into?
My status is at editing now. In order to finish the film by Friday, I will need to devote my time to editing today and if needed partly tomorrow. We endured problems with finding good non copyrighted music, but eventually found a few that worked alright in.
My status is at editing now. In order to finish the film by Friday, I will need to devote my time to editing today and if needed partly tomorrow. We endured problems with finding good non copyrighted music, but eventually found a few that worked alright in.
Wednesday, October 12, 2016
tips for shooting
blog question: What are the three most important tips for shooting handheld video that you learned from this article and video? How can you apply this to your shooting today? Please think out your answer and explain in detail.
The three most important tips are; to have an image stabilizer, use two hands, and keep the camera close to your body. I can apply this when doing hand held shots. By holding the camera with two hands and close to my body I will reduce shaken imagery. Since i'm using a phone, using a vr lense isn't in consideration.
The three most important tips are; to have an image stabilizer, use two hands, and keep the camera close to your body. I can apply this when doing hand held shots. By holding the camera with two hands and close to my body I will reduce shaken imagery. Since i'm using a phone, using a vr lense isn't in consideration.
Tuesday, October 11, 2016
test confidence
blog question: How confident are you in your understanding of The Production Process? What are two aspect of it that you feel might be the most challenging for you going forward?
I'm not that confident due to overthinking. It clogs my memory making me forget a lot but if I can push through it i'll be fine. I worry most about the vocabulary and positions.
I'm not that confident due to overthinking. It clogs my memory making me forget a lot but if I can push through it i'll be fine. I worry most about the vocabulary and positions.
Monday, October 10, 2016
post mobile film pitch
blog question: How effective was your mobile film pitch? What are some difficulties that you had with it? Was your pitch a complete story? How do you plan to fix it? Does it fulfill all the assignments requirements?
The pitching helped me figure out what areas I needed to emphasize more. It made me push out the way emotions would be shown wihtout dialoge which helped a lot. This also helped me remember to not assume the audience knows how the characters are meant to be potrayed first hand. Now that i fixed the issues i had it fits all the requirements.
The pitching helped me figure out what areas I needed to emphasize more. It made me push out the way emotions would be shown wihtout dialoge which helped a lot. This also helped me remember to not assume the audience knows how the characters are meant to be potrayed first hand. Now that i fixed the issues i had it fits all the requirements.
american movie blog question
blog question: How do/could you relate to what Mark was going through during the film? What challenges do you think you might expereince shooting your film that he did?
Mark struggled a lot with budgeting, audio, and time for his film. I find this to relate for my situation because I am still struggling to find out how to budget some shots and how to manage time that fits both my partner and my schedule. The audio is a win or lose situation. You don't find out if the audio is usable or not until after filming the actual shot. Thankfully for us, dialoge isn't permitted so that takes some stress off picking that up. I think scooting for locations and editing might be a challenge for us but definititly not impossible
Mark struggled a lot with budgeting, audio, and time for his film. I find this to relate for my situation because I am still struggling to find out how to budget some shots and how to manage time that fits both my partner and my schedule. The audio is a win or lose situation. You don't find out if the audio is usable or not until after filming the actual shot. Thankfully for us, dialoge isn't permitted so that takes some stress off picking that up. I think scooting for locations and editing might be a challenge for us but definititly not impossible
Thursday, October 6, 2016
job position
blog question: Refer to the set department/position handout posted on the blog. What department on set interests you? If you had to choose a job in filmmaking, what would it be? Why?
Screenwriting interests me the most since it's practically the heart of the movie. The screenwriter can write whatever they envision, to see it be brought in a visual aspect. If I had to choose a job in filmmaking, it would most likely be involved in this department in some way. I want to do this, because i've always been one drawn to storylines and to create a storyline to be brought to life is why I want to pursue this department.
Screenwriting interests me the most since it's practically the heart of the movie. The screenwriter can write whatever they envision, to see it be brought in a visual aspect. If I had to choose a job in filmmaking, it would most likely be involved in this department in some way. I want to do this, because i've always been one drawn to storylines and to create a storyline to be brought to life is why I want to pursue this department.
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