Sunday, 29 November 2015

Assessment week: video guide starter

Assessment Week: Unit 9 Editing Techniques

Objectives for the week:
Monday & Wednesday - either
1. Complete paired Timeline Audio Commentary, or
2. Purpose & Techniques - Record VoiceOver, embed video, edit voiceover to Merit in pairs

Friday - either
1. Complete any outstanding work, or
2. Shoot & Edit lesson practical task continuity exercise (for those who have completed recording)

Next Week: editing assessment Continuity Sequence

Friday's session 
Practical Video Guide: Continuity and Alternative Techniques

Exemplar blog for Unit 3 and 9
https://luk31998.wordpress.com/category/unit-3-and-unit-9-video-editing/page/2/ 

Pass: use Continuity Techniques of 180 deg rule, eyeline matches, cut aways, match on action in a continuity sequence to demonstrate Time, Space and Rhythm 

Merit: use cross cutting in a sequence of shots to demonstrate Time, Space and Rhythm 

Distinction: use jump cuts or montage in a sequence to demonstrate Time, Space and Rhythm



Wednesday, 25 November 2015

Homework week 11: Soundcloud recording

Homework:
1. Embed all of the clips from your Purpose Worksheets (last week's homework) and develop your answers to hit the Merit criteria. 
Add your own contemporary example of editing and discuss Time, Rythm and Space - make the point that editing has not changed since the Pioneers

2. If you did not complete the voiceover work this week in lesson your Homework is to complete your section of your Timeline Audio Commentary. 

3. If you did, complete the responses to the Merit questions as notes on your blog to be recorded next week.

(see Pass and Merit instructions/questions below)

Prep Next Week:
In lessons week complete your Task 2 Video Voiceover for 'Alternative and Mainstream Techniques and Purposes of editing in contemporary editing'

Task 1: BFI Video Guide: 'Development of Editing: Technology, Pioneers, Techniques and Styles' (Groups of 2)

Student 1 will discuss the Timeline of the Pioneers, their films, Techniques and Styles

Student 2 will discuss the Timeline of Technology 

You can use the headphones and record in S022 on Tuesday from 4:15-5:15 or you can do this yourselves at home using Soundcloud.

Do not use your phones unless you have the Soundcloud app as you must be able to upload your sound files to your blogs and use them in the mac suite.

Use your presentations in the Timeline to form your script. To achieve the Merit you must discuss the development 

Pass: 
Pioneer 1. Describe Early Pioneers - why where they Pioneers of editing, what did they develop or contribute?
Pioneer 2. Describe the Techniques and Styles used by the Early pioneers, 
Pioneer 3: Describe the Purpose of editing  (Time, Space & Rhythm) with reference to their films

Technology 1. Describe the development of Editing Technology, dates and how it worked/was used

Merit: 
Pioneers 1. Explain why they are Pioneers and their contribution.
Pioneers 2. How editing developed from one Pioneer to another, the Styles and Techniques used with reference to their films (examples) 
Pioneers 3. Explain the Purpose of editing (Time, Space & Rhythm) and how these have not changed 

Technology 1. Explain the reasons for the next Technological development and how it and how it impacted editing (Formats: Film, TV, Video)
Technology 2. Explain the benefits and drawback of each Technological development 

Pioneers Criteria:

Style
  • Special effects
  • Continuity
Techniques used by Early Pioneers
  • Cutting
  • Fades and Dissolves
  • Parallel Editing
  • Following the action
Purpose
  • Time
  • Space
  • Rhythm
Pioneers
  • Lumieres
  • Melies
  • Porter
Technology Criteria:
  • Pre-edit/in camera editing
  • Moviola
  • Splicing & Joining 16mm
  • Celuloid Tape
  • Reel to Reel
  • Linear Editing
  • Non-Linear Editing
  • Off Line editing
  • On Line editing

Pioneers & Films & Styles/Techniques
  • Lumiere Brothers - Arrive'dun Train... - continuous shot no editing, no plot, actual events 


  • Edwin S Porter - Great Train Robbery - cutting at a bench/Moviola - Continuity editing (cutting together different framed shots ti create narrative)
  • George Melies - A Trip to the Moon - editing in the camera - surreal/special effects style, fades, stop Motion, double exposure, split screen 

Prep: Watch some of the guides from last year
Exemplar of Video Guides: (Documentary)

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B15FWaY5r7MNM3oySmtIQWd2N28/view?usp=sharing

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B15FWaY5r7MNc01qNFlzX1ZPQ0U/view?usp=sharing

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B15FWaY5r7MNRlc5ZHFYR1FxQUk/view?usp=sharing

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B15FWaY5r7MNMDlqT3ZQTnBmMEk/view?usp=sharing

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B15FWaY5r7MNRUhTSGhqQmcxbjA/view?usp=sharing


Thursday, 19 November 2015

Task 2: Practical Portfolio: Style, Techniques and Terminology

STYLES, TECHNIQUES & TERMINOLOGY OF EDITING
Objective: In Pairs to compile a portfolio of mainstream and alternative editing techniques with contemporary examples

Pass: Identify and describe the Techniques and the Style of editing they belong to (Continuity or Special Effects) using correct Terminology

Merit: Explain how the Style and Techniques are used in a contemporary example, and which they are Mainstream or Alternative

Distinction: Analyse the use of these Techniques from the Early Pioneers (Lumieres, Melies, Porter) in contemporary examples

180 degree rule:

Youtube name: Breaking Down the 180-Degree Rule
Write a description of this Technique


Which Style of editing is this?





How is it used in a contemporary example - is this alternative or mainstream?



Jump cut

Youtube name: continuity editing jump cut
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How is it used in a contemporary example - is this alternative or mainstream?



Match on Action

Youtube name: Match on Action - Buster Keaton
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Eyeline Matching

Youtube name: What is Eyeline Matching? [ReelRebel #23]
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How is it used in a contemporary example - is this alternative or mainstream?



Cut Away (Footage)


Youtube name: Cutaway Technique
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Shot-reverse-shot

Youtube name: Shot/reverse shot in Spider-Man
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Montage


Youtube name: Karate Kid

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Transitions: Dissolve


Youtube name: Editing effects in the butterfly effect 1
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Transitions: Wipes


Youtube name: Star Wars Revenge of the Wipe
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Transitions: Fades


Youtube name: Editing effects in the butterfly effect 1
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Slow Motion


Youtube name: Inception Caffeteria scene slow motion explosion
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Split Screens


Youtube name: Cousin Avi - I’m coming to London
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Freeze Frame


Youtube name: Fight Club Tyler Durdan
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Special Effects

Youtube name: Trinity bullet-time
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