Evaluation

When starting this unit I looked at different types of editing of videos, from the camera angles to scene cutting. I also researched into different films genres and explained what would be common in those films. I looked at the music what would be used in its genre and what actors and actresses would star in the genre films. When I created the video I have come across a few technical problems, one of the problems I came across was the college computers could not convert the necessary files which I had to then convert at a home PC, after this problem I came across a rendering problem which occurred on the college computers, where the after effects program crashed and said not enough ram, the video files that I used had be compressed to a small size film on my home PC. I tried to attempt the rendering on several PC, but each computer could not take it and crashed. I then attempted this on my home PC, which also crashed, so I used Windows Movie Maker to create the final video. This video would have looked better if I didn't have software problems.

Edited Video Action Scene

This video contains short clips from terminator, tropic thunder, crank 1, black hawk down, wanted and gamer. I have cut out actions shots, from someone firing a gun to getting shot. I also chopping out explosions which occur in the films. Some of the clips are in order but, some of them are just put in a random sequence. I have also added a crash and someone falling out of the sky, which also comes under the category of action in film.

Film Research

Transitions

A film transition is a technique where there is a change from one scene to another using a certain type of technique like cut, dissolve, fade and wipe. Alot of films will include selective transitions, usually to change a tone or a mood.

Creating Pace

When creating pace, there is usually a slow build up to a big event, which can maybe seen in a running scene or even a chase scene. Pace is usually created with music or slow camera movement where the camera gets closer to either the character or object, this could either be a jolty movement or just a plain smooth movement.

180° Rule

A basic guideline in film making is the 180° rule where two characters, or objects, what are in the same scene should always have the same left/right relationship to each other. So If the camera passes over the imaginary axis connecting the two subjects, this is called crossing the line and the new shot, from the opposite side, is known as a reverse angle.

Storytelling

Some films use a storytelling technique, where the would me some sort of narration telling the story of the film whilst the events are taking place. A good example of this is in the film bedtime stories as Adam Sandlers is narrating a story whislt he is actually acting out his story in a different scene.

In-Camera Editing

If you don't have any editing software and you can only edit from the camera that you are using to film on you have to either film each shot you need in a sequential order that that the final scene makes scene when you play the footage back. Another technique is what film editors call amateurish is to film an entire scene in one whole shot. Film that look like they have used some sort of In Camera Editing are films such as Cloverfield and District 9, but these films also seem to have used many of the other researched techniques.

Multiple points of view

For multiple points of view, this is were the characters/actors are showing each side of view. This is where one character will show what he/she is seeing and then it will change to the secondary character and do the same.

Manipulation of Diegetic Time and Space

Manipulation of Diegetic Time and Space is when a film uses effects an age or time change. Either a person to an object or even an envrionment is shown either getting younger or getting older. There are many films which uses this technique but a famous film is the time machine as the man is in the time machine and the environment changes as he is travelling through time.

Shot Variation

Shot Variation is when a single stream of images are uninterrupted by editing where the shot can use a static or a mobile framing, a standard or a non-standard frame rate, but it must be a continuous motion. The shot is one of the basic units of cinema yet has always been subject to manipulation, for example stop-motion cinematography or superimposition. In contemporary cinema, with the use of computer graphics and sequences built-up from a series of still frames for a big example "The Matrix" , where the boundaries of the shot are increasingly being challenged.

Following The Action

The technique in films "Following the Action" is when there are movement or an action scene, the camera would follow the event that is taking place. In the attached clip there is an example of the term following the action which is in the film Mr & Mrs Smith which has a big action scene. In this clip it shows that the camera rotates around the gun battle to show more of the action instead of staying at one angle.