Creative Intentions:

1. To explore how editing can be used to select and structure footage.
2. To create a continuity editing which makes sense of time, space and actions / reactions.

Some thoughts about editing:

Sequence 1 – Basic Shots Types (Intention 1)

Create a compilation video of the shots you took for framing and movement

Each clip should include a title, which describes the framing and/or movement using the the correct terminology. Remember here are the lists of shots you were supposed to take:

• Basic Shots
• Basic Movement

You may not have shot all the footage according to these list. This is fine, you are just starting to explore cinematography after all. However you must try and accurately describe the shot type which you have filmed in the title.

Sequence 2 – The Exchange – A Continuity Edit (Intention 2)

Create a title slate called ‘The Exchange’.

1. Can you edit the footage for the continuity edit, so that it makes sense?
2. If you have finished, you should try and do some simple colour correction or add transitions
3. You could add some music to the opening few seconds as the character walks down the corridor, whilst the other character waits.
   • NEVER use copyrighted music – here is a link to some music / loops you can use.

Export and Reflect

Export both sequences for YouTube

Create two new topics for your work in your Reflective Journal:

• Basic Cinematography (Sub-page in Cinematography)
• Continuity Edit (Sub-page in Editing)

Embed the video into each page and reflect (150 words max) on each task and outcome.

1. Reflect on the quality of your footage and the meaning(s) that are implied in four of your favourite shots.
2. Reflection on filming to edit and editing tools, which can create basic narrative meaning.

Creative Intention for the week

‘To explore and understand how to shoot video for sense in the edit (a continuity edit)

The brief for this task is:

“Film a character walking down a corridor, opening a door, crossing a room and sitting down in a chair opposite another character, with whom she/he then exchanges a couple of lines of dialogue.

In the edit you must demonstrate understanding of

• match on action
• shot/reverse shot
• the 180-degree rule.”

You should copy and paste the creative intention and brief into your reflective journal, under the cinematography page.

Hell’s Club

A great video that uses the rules of continuity editing to create a scene, made up from clips from lots of different films.

Look at how the editor uses editing to create actions and reactions which seem to make a plausible (continuous):

• Sense of space (the club)
• Sense of action and reaction
• Sense of time (meanwhile..)
• Sense of rhythm (cutting speed)

Examples

Here are two example preliminary tasks made by the media teachers, spot the mistakes:

Here is the script which we would like you to use.

You will be working in groups of three for this task and must each shoot the sequence, which you will be editing together once we get back after the 1/2 term break.

• Please use this document to list the shots you will need to complete the edit.