Week Five

I unfortunately was not in class for week five. I have been having car issues and was having major ones that day. I'm told in class that we started editing our Continuity project and that our next project was going to be shooting the Royale with Cheese scene from Pulp Fiction. I think that is awesome and am really excited for it. Even though I wasn't in class, I did get some editing done on my project. It's coming along nice and I'm excited for the end result. This project is a little tricker because it's not supposed to be random at all. It's supposed to be an edited together making sense scene. It's a little challenging but a lot of fun. I'm really starting to enjoy editing and kind of hope it becomes my niche. I really like the idea of being one of the people who works the most with a director. I tend to spot little things in movies, so I think that I may have an eye for it. We shall see. 

Week Four

Week four was our first project critique. I thought the critique was very good and interesting. I was especially interested to see how the other people in my group edited the same footage. We all did it very differently which was cool. All the other groups had really interesting projects too. I was particularly proud of my project because it was well recvieved and everyone seemed to generally get my story in it. The story wasn't quite clear for some, so I am glad that I was able to pull it off. In retrospect, I feel the Kuleshov effect is neat and is an excellent way to introduce students to editing. 

We also began our first Continuity project. Continuity consitency is vital in a film and most of the time is common sense or automatic. However, when overlooked, it can become an eye sore or source of confusion. We were instructed to go out and shoot footage that kept continuity. We were giving a short script but my group decided to do a chase scene on top of the parking garage going down all levels. We made sure to keep screen direction and did some really great detail shots of an ignition turn or gear shift. I think it's going to turn out to be another good project.

Week Three

Week three kicked ass. We got to edit the entire class which was awesome. I like how we were allowed to do that limiting the amount of homework we had. Final Cut Pro is a pretty awesome program. It can get slightly irratating but overall the user interface is pretty excellant. The problem I had was turning goofy footage into more serious footage. My first 20 seconds came out perfectly like I wanted to but then I ran out of footage to fully continue the story how I wanted to. This problem didnt allow me to get a lot of the project done but that was okay because I was so thrilled with my first 20 seconds. I edited the footage to points where people had no expressions or looked sad. This allowed me to capture the mood that I was looking for. Ultimately, I had to go with a slighlty less serious route but I really enjoyed how my first editing project came out. It was mad and crazy but that was the goal.

Week Two

Week two was very enoyable for me. We learned a little about the Kuleshov effect and how he shot random footage and then edited it  together to make sense. We were then instructed to go out and do the same. My group had a blast doing this. When I had the camera, I found myself getting drawn to filming random signage and even random moments. We staged a little bit of the footage but ultimately most of it was indeed random. All of our footage was random, crazy, and mad so I figured I would try to incorporate that them into my editing. I thought the song Mad World would work perfectly. Being a creative person, it was slighlty difficult to actually shoot random stuff. I had to try and turn my imagination off and just try and shoot stuff that was visually appealing. This helped some and allowed me to get some great footage

Week One

I thought week one of Editing class was very enjoyable. We watched a movie called The Cutting Edge. I thought it was excellant because it really gave an insight to how important an editor is to the film process. He or she literally spends the most time with the Director in post-production. In a lot of ways, the editor is the maker of the final cut of the film. A director can have awesome footage but if its edited poorly, you will not have a good film. I like how the movie depicted editing as like a puzzle. My favorite part of the film was all the interviews with directors and how they felt about editing. I actually plan on purchasing the movie for my personal collection because I believe it is a very beneficial film for aspiring filmmakers to have.