Manipulating time:
The relativety depends on how you look at time.
The main catergories for Manipulating time are;
Accelerating time
This is known as speeding up time, often to used to speed up motion on what characters. If you have a room full of actors and there having a party. The audience could get real bored if you just play the whole party to them, as some parties can be endless, so if you speed it up but slow enough to get an idea of whats going on then the audience will perfer this to having the party in normal time.
It shows all the events happening quick enough for the audience to see, in normal time it would simply bore the audience.
In this trailor there are a lot of fast motion scenes and I thought it was a good example of it as well as the trailer below.
In the Fast and Furious films there are a lot of scene with accelerating time to give the audience the intense feeling and an edge of their seat exticitment.
However they also use slow motion to slow the scene down and give the audience a breath taking experience.
Accelerating time and slow motion can sometime be used within Hollywood Montage.
Slow Motion
Using slow motion can often make a scene more intense e.g. if you have an explosion you are going to use slow motion because its more dynmatic and really puts the audience on the edge of their seats. It is often used on drama scene's and the audience can get a better clue of what is happening.
Start from 40 seconds
Speeding Motion and slowing it down can be used together. In this case if you were to have people randomly dotted in a room and the editor wanted to introduce them seperatly to the audience. The editor would speed up going from character to character. Once reaching the character they would use the slow motion technique on the face and there have there name and what they do appear on the bottom of the screen. Then it would move to another person using Speeding time so the audience don't get bored.
Speeding up and slowing down motion can be used to cover mistakes whilst filming so if the footage is jerky or not very good that adding slow or fast motion can overlap that error you've come across.
However not always can use these effects to cover up mistakes, if there screen has dialogue in it that you cannot accelerate time time because you wont know what there saying, however sometimes you can use slow motion but it does blur the dialogue so you struggled to understand what they say, so in this case it wouldn't be used.
Long takes
This is known as single shots which means you film it at the same time so if you make a mistake you have go back to that scene and re film everything. The scene is taken all in 1 go, hence the name Long Take.
This is a good example of a long take scene and it seems the Children of Men are quite famous for taking long shots.
Compressed time
Compressed time is known for have a long piece compressed into a small clip so your compressing it into a small format 'clip' Compressing time is cutting the unnesseary clips out, so if I was to film someone day I wouldn't show the whole day, I would show the key elements to their day. E.G. Going to work/college/school, getting something to eat, going home, having dinner, on there laptop, then bed. I wouldn't show the audience the whole day just the key things that they would need to know about their day.
Monday, 17 October 2011
Thursday, 13 October 2011
Chapter 3; Transitions types
Transitions types
They come in all sorts of styles, cross dissolves, wipes, Fade out Fade in, Black out, Fade out and so on. A lot of editors uses them to help give a clean and tidy jump shot, which is where you jump from one scene like a lady getting onto a train to a man sitting on his bed. You're jumping from one scene to another, transitions give a great effect and sometimes they blend it really others times not so much. Here is an example of different transitions you get.
Wipes; were very famous in the 80's particularly in the Star Wars Films. They were often used as a start of a new chapter to the audience. They are still used in Star Wars films today.
Here is a classic example of the wipes which are used in Star Wars.
The 180 degree rule is a rule every film marker must follow. As I tried to explain in the picture about its like have two actors, think of a line between them, known as the invincible 180 degree line, then add a half moon onto it a stretched one, the camera will never cross the line that is between the actors 'invincible' . Every time the actors move the line moves with them and the camera moves position to avoid going near the 180 degree line. The half moon style is what the camera moves on, no matter how big of small that half the circle is the camera won't ever come off that half circle. If you do however cross the invincible line it just shows professional that you are an amatuer.
L cuts also known as split edit are used to show someone talking out of shot. You'd have one person talking to another, and as the other person is talking to someone else there voice continues as it shots onto some else as they may just nod of agree. That is know as the Jump Cut. The editor on an editing software looks like an L shape hence its name.
Parallel editing is cutting between two scenes shown at the same time. They interween with each other to show it. TV shows and Drama's often used parallel editing.
They come in all sorts of styles, cross dissolves, wipes, Fade out Fade in, Black out, Fade out and so on. A lot of editors uses them to help give a clean and tidy jump shot, which is where you jump from one scene like a lady getting onto a train to a man sitting on his bed. You're jumping from one scene to another, transitions give a great effect and sometimes they blend it really others times not so much. Here is an example of different transitions you get.
Wipes; were very famous in the 80's particularly in the Star Wars Films. They were often used as a start of a new chapter to the audience. They are still used in Star Wars films today.
Here is a classic example of the wipes which are used in Star Wars.
The 180 degree rule.
The 180 degree rule is a rule every film marker must follow. As I tried to explain in the picture about its like have two actors, think of a line between them, known as the invincible 180 degree line, then add a half moon onto it a stretched one, the camera will never cross the line that is between the actors 'invincible' . Every time the actors move the line moves with them and the camera moves position to avoid going near the 180 degree line. The half moon style is what the camera moves on, no matter how big of small that half the circle is the camera won't ever come off that half circle. If you do however cross the invincible line it just shows professional that you are an amatuer.
L cuts also known as split edit are used to show someone talking out of shot. You'd have one person talking to another, and as the other person is talking to someone else there voice continues as it shots onto some else as they may just nod of agree. That is know as the Jump Cut. The editor on an editing software looks like an L shape hence its name.
Parallel editing is cutting between two scenes shown at the same time. They interween with each other to show it. TV shows and Drama's often used parallel editing.
Monday, 10 October 2011
Chapter 2 - Editing styles and conventions.
Editing styles and conventions
- Hollywood montage and Souiest montage
- Transition types are the nuts about bolts of editing, they are what give an effect on a scene. A key example of transition types is wipes. Wipes were mostly famous in the 1980's especially in the Star Wars films to the audience it was like opening the a new chapter. When the used the wipe when came from the corna of a page and went to a different scene that is a classic example to the audience its changing from one scene to another.
L cuts & split edits
The point of this is to see people's reactions instead of going back and fourth loads of times from one character to another. The editor would try and focus on the person who has the most dialogy rather than the character which doesn't. As they would be talking they would focus on the main character however the editor would also not forget to point the camera on the character speaking the most. The editor would also have the main characters audio playing whilst point onto another character as he could be agreeing then shot back to the main character.
The reason its called L cuts is because in editing its shaped like an L.
Jump cuts
Jumps cuts are an obvious cut. It would be jumping from one scene to another in an obvious manner, all editors use this technique. It is one of the easiest simple ones you can do. Jumps cuts can be about changing from one back ground to another, the camera will usually stay the same but not always.
Wipes
They were very famous in the 80's
They showed the audience it was a start of a new chapter.
Often it was a different way to start a new scene (jump cut)
- Hollywood montage and Souiest montage
- Transition types are the nuts about bolts of editing, they are what give an effect on a scene. A key example of transition types is wipes. Wipes were mostly famous in the 1980's especially in the Star Wars films to the audience it was like opening the a new chapter. When the used the wipe when came from the corna of a page and went to a different scene that is a classic example to the audience its changing from one scene to another.
L cuts & split edits
The point of this is to see people's reactions instead of going back and fourth loads of times from one character to another. The editor would try and focus on the person who has the most dialogy rather than the character which doesn't. As they would be talking they would focus on the main character however the editor would also not forget to point the camera on the character speaking the most. The editor would also have the main characters audio playing whilst point onto another character as he could be agreeing then shot back to the main character.
The reason its called L cuts is because in editing its shaped like an L.
Jump cuts
Jumps cuts are an obvious cut. It would be jumping from one scene to another in an obvious manner, all editors use this technique. It is one of the easiest simple ones you can do. Jumps cuts can be about changing from one back ground to another, the camera will usually stay the same but not always.
Wipes
They were very famous in the 80's
They showed the audience it was a start of a new chapter.
Often it was a different way to start a new scene (jump cut)
Wednesday, 28 September 2011
The History and Developments of Post-production
The history and development of post production is an interesting subject to write about. You wouldn't believe how interesting it really is until you start learning or talking about the subject. The history of it all goes back to 1903 when the editing process began. Editing has developed so much since 1903 if someone was to come back from all those years ago and see how it has changed and how much more advanced it is they'd probably fall of there chair with excitement.
Editing is magic really, its about cutting scene's up and putting them together to make a movie, the whole point of editing is to cut out mistakes and put in the right scene's to make a story up.
D.W. Griffins was the first recognized person to edit a film the first film he was also the person to use the shot 'close up'
In 1903 they didn't have an editing program like you do now in 2011 where you have e.g. Final Cut Pro now back then they would edit but cut and stick frames together. It wasn't until 1940's when the first editing machine was invented, it looked like an old green sewing it was called a 'Moviola'
Even though technology and techniques have changed so much since 1903 editing a film hasn't it still takes roughly 8 months to a year to edit a film and every film on average will have 200 hours of film on it.
Thomas Eddisons assistant Edwin Porter was the first discovered that if you chop a film up and put it in some form of an order it makes a story. He was the first person to editor a film but failed to get recognized for his. The first film he edited was 'Life of an American Firemen'
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oM-DhskWrDA
Editing was often forgotten about when it came to film making, not many people would realize without an editor you wouldn't really get a film.
Editing was a hidden talent and was often done by women. The reason was for this was because film makers back then thought women had more of a gentle touch then men and wouldn't cause damage to the film, also because it was looked as being pointless this was another reason it was more of a women's jobs more than males job.
Although editing has changed a lot since it first began the time it takes to edit a film hasn't changed much since then it still takes averagely 8 months or even years to edit a complete film. On average a typical major Hollywood movie tape will contain 200 of footage onto it which has to be scales down to 2 hours roughly.
If you look at the cinema as you would a book you'd read them in exactly the same way.
Editing is magic really, its about cutting scene's up and putting them together to make a movie, the whole point of editing is to cut out mistakes and put in the right scene's to make a story up.
D.W. Griffins was the first recognized person to edit a film the first film he was also the person to use the shot 'close up'
In 1903 they didn't have an editing program like you do now in 2011 where you have e.g. Final Cut Pro now back then they would edit but cut and stick frames together. It wasn't until 1940's when the first editing machine was invented, it looked like an old green sewing it was called a 'Moviola'
Even though technology and techniques have changed so much since 1903 editing a film hasn't it still takes roughly 8 months to a year to edit a film and every film on average will have 200 hours of film on it.
Thomas Eddisons assistant Edwin Porter was the first discovered that if you chop a film up and put it in some form of an order it makes a story. He was the first person to editor a film but failed to get recognized for his. The first film he edited was 'Life of an American Firemen'
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oM-DhskWrDA
Editing was often forgotten about when it came to film making, not many people would realize without an editor you wouldn't really get a film.
Editing was a hidden talent and was often done by women. The reason was for this was because film makers back then thought women had more of a gentle touch then men and wouldn't cause damage to the film, also because it was looked as being pointless this was another reason it was more of a women's jobs more than males job.
Although editing has changed a lot since it first began the time it takes to edit a film hasn't changed much since then it still takes averagely 8 months or even years to edit a complete film. On average a typical major Hollywood movie tape will contain 200 of footage onto it which has to be scales down to 2 hours roughly.
If you look at the cinema as you would a book you'd read them in exactly the same way.
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