Classwork : Editing Practice

 This blog post contains the work I did in my lesson with my partner on how to successfully edit. My teacher filmed the footage but we edited it together. My teacher also provided the template for the blog post. 

Why is continuity editing important?

Continuity editing includes making sure that items like props or costumes stay consistent from scene to scene. But the more important work lies in editing shots together in a way that leaves viewers thoroughly grounded in both time and space.

Different types of continuity edit 

• Straight cut (cut)

• Eyeline match 

• Shot /reverse shot

• Cutaway / Insert 

*Match cut

Footage

Here is the footage that my teacher shot which utilises a variety of camera angles and movements. The scene is very simple, it involves a student standing up and leaving the classroom. A single shot here might be quite boring for the audience, by editing and combining the shots together we can make the scene feel more dynamic. 

My Editing Process (CapCut)👻

My first attempt were with quite some errors. Here is how we fixed the errors by cutting to the exact time when the actor moves with the right hand tucked, we match the next clip the same thing so it doesn't look weird to the audience.

Here is my final scene. Editing multiple clips together made the scene better because the continuation between each clips is more seamless and we did more cuts with extra clips to make it seem more cinematic. There was a clip where the actor was supposed to move to the right inside of the left when exiting out of the room so, it made a bit off for the continuation of the clips although, overall together it is more realistic and the cuts are better than the previous.

Reflection ; This tutorial can help us in the project with fixing simple problems such as minor mistakes ( continuity error in editing ) which can impact the whole realism of the whole project, the biggest challenge on editing is trying to see which clips match with the last and the next clip so that the cuts will be seamless without any weird or glitchy movements, we can improve my editing next time by watching YouTube tutorials or learning new features within the editing software to widen my whole knowledge about editing.

Shooting Practice : Horror Scene Recreation

 This post contains a mini project that helped us learn how to shoot a cinematic scene. We did this as a group ( Maxine, Kenneth, Shannon, Bams ). 

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Lesson Description : My teacher told us to find a scene from a movie in our genre which was the Horror genre. Our task was to recreate the Jennifer's Body specifically at the school corridor scene... 

Original Scene ; 

Our Scene ; 

Problem :

1. The camera was sometimes shaky in the middle of recording due to constant imperfections within the camera angle or movement which can make some scenes with no sense and context ( character wasn't in the camera angle thus, talking to nobody or the camera movement was too far from the characters to be seen clearly ) 

2. Lip-syncing to the original audio was a bit abnormal due to the characters while recording can be either nervous, embarrassed or not good at acting for the sound to be synced to the audio. 

Solution :

1.  We could possibly use a stabilizer or a tripod for the recording part to prevent 

shake or weird angles within the recording session.

2. Retake many shots to see if we can perfect it the original audio or get actors that are good at acting like doing a Screen Test with various actors we picked out that could be good within the context of our video to prevent weird lip-syncing to the audio. 

Next time :

1.  Most likely practice for the camera stillness because, purchasing a stabilizer or a tripod can be too far out of our current budget and we might need another cameraman that has a stable arm just incase for the camera movement.

2.  Remember to take as many shots as possible to have a higher possibility that the lip-syncing wouldn't be as abnormal or off-synced.