Andreas Edwards Evaluation Question 6

7/31/2019 Andreas Edwards Evaluation Question 6

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Question 6:

1 .We used the software Final Cut to edit our opening sequence.

At first I found this software quite hard to use. However by the end

of editing I believe it will suffice to say I am skilled in using it.


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A list of the equipmentused.

- Still camera-Tripod-Canon 600d camera-Microphone-Boom-Camera rig-Dolly

3.We uploaded ourfootage of the Cannon

600d camera directlyinto I movie, and it wasfrom there that weexported the footage,,after we deleted theuseless shots, directlyinto Final Cut.

4.The software live type was use to create ourtitles. We made sure we matched them updirectly with our slow motion shots in final cut interms of time, and then uploaded them to finalcut.

We filmed our clo

se ups of the chips, gun, glasses and bottles and

then added this footage into imovie. We then made the titles in

livetype.

We used two cameras when

filming. This made it much

easier to edit also as it

would cut to exactly same

shot just from a different

angle.


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These skills were all developed and found there way into our opening sequence.

We followed the storyboard as much as we could.

We used two cameras. One on a dolly and the other on the camera rig. Two people were filming, Sam Bates and myself.

I should note that one skill we did not use, although I wish we did, was a long steady arc shot. We got the shot, however the sound of the

dolly arcing round was too loud on the microphone and therefore we could not use it. It is a shot that is conventional to our genre, so its a

shame we could not incorporate said shot into our piece.

When filming the poker scene, we used two red heads for lighting and a spotlight. The spotlight went over the table, and the redheads lit the

boxes and woodwork, to make our media room look like a warehouse. We only used a spotlight for the torture scene.

We had to transform the room into a warehouse. This meant bringing wood from outside, stacking up boxes in the background, and paying

close attention to the lighting. What we found difficult when filming was to keep our (Sams ad my own) shadows out of the shot. They kept

projecting on the table. To prevent this, Sam and I had to communicate constantly and trial our shots a couple of times before.

-Important note. We bought a new petrol canister. It had not been used. We filled the canister up with warm water. Our actor took regular

breaks were we untied him and un-blind folded him.

In terms of editing:

1.I developed my skills of editing the audio. Thiswas really important to our sequence as thesoundtrack could not be too loud and thecharacter dialogue could not be too quite. Iplayed around, editing, using the pen tool to dragthe audio level down at certain points and thendrag it up at other points.


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2. I learnt how to apply transitions.Transitions such as dissolves are veryconventional to our genre. Cutting from thetorture scene back to the poker scenewithout the dissolve seemed to harsh. I used

around 3 dissolves all together and makingthem the correct duration was I skill Ideveloped.

3.We also used parallel editing. Cutting fromone scene to another.

In between this, during the poker scene, we

used continuity editing. Finally, in the torturesegments we used jump cutting mentionedbefore in the evaluation to reflect the hardsharpness of the violent act. These are allediting techniques I learnt and applied.

4. We recorded thevoiceover in therecording studio usingthe software Cuebase. Ithen edited it in,specifically over thetorture scene and overthe freeze frame.

Voiceovers areconventional to ourenre.


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6.I applied the editing techniqueof using colour correction to ouropening sequence. To give it thatMafia gritty feel I edited theoverall colour to sepia for theflashing images at the verybeginning.

This editing technique was

similar to desaturating the colourfor the torture scene to black andwhite.

What we did not plan to originally use were freeze frames. However, once I had learnt how tocreate them we new they would make an authentic addition to our piece. First I made a freeze-frame by screen printing the shot and then blowing it up in Photoshop. However this reduced thequality greatly. I then learnt how to do it through final cut. Once I had learnt how to do it, we usedfreeze frames a lot in our piece. Similar to in Goodfellas, we freeze framed our protagonist and

then added a voiceover. The freeze frame allows the audience to establish who the protagonist is.

I should note that this shot, of Vinny smoking; we did not f ilm on the day of filming. We filmed thison a separate day and then colour corrected it to sepia. We made sure it was an extreme close upso the audience could not see that he was in fact wearing different clothing. These are examples ofmore filming and editing techniques we have used in our group.


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We then took freeze frames of the entire sequence and placed around 6 of themin between our slow motion shots. They flash on the screen very quickly; verysimilar to the Mafia film Donnie Brasco studied for my textual analysis during pre-production.

As mentioned before, another editing technique we learnt and utilized wasdecreasing the speed of a shot (slow motion).

Donnie Brasco:

An example of the flashing images that break up the pace of theslow motion shots, as the titles come up.This is where the basis for our titles stemmed from. In Donnie

Brasco it established the characters and setting before theactual dialogue has even began. The dramatic tone of the filmhas also already been established as the soundtrack was soemotional.

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