Sunday, 12 November 2017

WEEK 8 - Group Tutorial

1 - Group tutorials; prepare footage we have shot to show tutor and get feedback.
2 - All filming has to be completed by week 09.
- Start the edit of your Creative Project.
Reading: Rabiger, M. (2004) Directing the Documentary, London: Focal Press. Ch.32 Editing: The Process of Refinement
  • Achieving a smoothly flowing narrative. 
  • Editing to convey point of view. According to choices made in editing, the audience can identify with either one of the characters or with the more removed perspective of the invisible observer - who in film is usually the story-teller. 
  • Analogies to editing practices in music. Two streams, visual and aural, proceed independently yet are rhythmically related, like the music and the physical movements in a dance performance.
  • Keeping the audience occupied. By creating juxtapositions that require choice and interpretation, film is able to counterpoint antithetical ideas and moods with great economy. At the same time it can interest the audiences involvement with the ideas and opinions of life.  
  • Disguising seams and mimicking consciousness shifts. The overlap cut: dialogue sequences, sequence transitions

No comments:

Post a Comment

WEEK 9 - The Edit

1 -  Where edits go wrong, an understanding of what not to do.  Edits can go wrong anywhere and at any time but there are certain things t...