Analysing Videos
Parallel/Cross Cutting
This video is from Silence of the Lambs, the scene is tense because (spoiler) it's moments before the death of the serial killer. The use of Parallel editing is used, where it moves from different scenes and tricks the audience. As the police plan to break into the Killer's home, he walks to the door when he hears the doorbell go and opens the door, as an audience member you think that he'll be shot down but as he opens the door a woman is standing there instead, and then the police break in to a completely different house. The use of Parallel editing shows two different stories in a montage, it's tense and gets the audience at the edge of their seats, it miss leads the audience because you think that it's definitely his house that the police are breaking into.
It would be useful for me to use because if i want to create a very intense scene, but it doesn't always have to be used for intense scenes, it's just a way to show two different stories within one but i find it works better in climaxed scenes.
It would be useful for me to use because if i want to create a very intense scene, but it doesn't always have to be used for intense scenes, it's just a way to show two different stories within one but i find it works better in climaxed scenes.
Jump Cutting
Jump cutting is an editing technique, you either have the same location but jumping to different to different angles. There are three examples within this video but i chose to look at the first one more because the jump cuts are very noticeable. The jump cut on the first one is where he is showing everyone a lighter, the clever part of that scene is the way he shows the lighter but with the editing you see many different angles of the same scene, you see the lighter throughout then it switches to a character, back to the lighter.
Though it doesn't confuse you as an viewer, because if they edited it a little bit faster it would be difficult to keep up but it just seems to work for this scene, as he still explains about the lighter while the angles are changing.
I would use this because it will create a bit of difference, it would make a scene more interesting, it would have to depend what is happening in the scene because I don't want to over complicate it and it to confuse the audience.
Though it doesn't confuse you as an viewer, because if they edited it a little bit faster it would be difficult to keep up but it just seems to work for this scene, as he still explains about the lighter while the angles are changing.
I would use this because it will create a bit of difference, it would make a scene more interesting, it would have to depend what is happening in the scene because I don't want to over complicate it and it to confuse the audience.
Montage
This is a montage from the Godfather, it's where there are more than one story going on, so one story is at a Christening whilst the others are gangsters preparing their weapons. It's clever because you can understand four different stories, three are intense whilst the Christening is calm. You know that all stories are linked together, especially when the camera keeps moving to a close up of the character who Robert De Niro played.
Montage is very useful and is used often in any sort of film, programme, music video, so I feel it would be very useful in my production because I can have more than one story (which all links) to make it more interesting, as it doesn't bore the audience as they can focus on more than one story.
Montage is very useful and is used often in any sort of film, programme, music video, so I feel it would be very useful in my production because I can have more than one story (which all links) to make it more interesting, as it doesn't bore the audience as they can focus on more than one story.
Match Cutting
This Match Cut is from the movie Trainspotting, it's very clever because match cutting is a use of editing where you move to another scene by using something that relates to the scene before. In this video, one of the characters jumps onto a wall and then off it, once he lands he's in a completely different location but it tricks the audience, thinking that he would be jumping off to the other side of the wall and not into a new location, as he stays in a landing position, its a very good way of transiting to another scene.
I would use Match cutting because I think it would really make my production interesting, I think it's one of the most clever editing techniques because it tricks the mind and makes the audience double take as it's a perfect transition to each scene but it can also be very good for linking a scene one after the other.
I would use Match cutting because I think it would really make my production interesting, I think it's one of the most clever editing techniques because it tricks the mind and makes the audience double take as it's a perfect transition to each scene but it can also be very good for linking a scene one after the other.
'How to' Videos
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Planning Practice
What you are going to shoot? How?
For Montage I could film a fighting sequence, or a two people falling in love. I would film multiple scenes using one camera, maybe also using a tripod. For Jump Cut I will film someone walking quite a long distance and then take out parts to create the jumps, also using one camera. For Parallel Cut, I will film two different shoots which can relate to the same thing, so maybe someone walking in one place and then someone in another. For Match Cut, I will get someone to jump in one place and then landing in another.
For all of my shoots I will use one camera, and apart from Jump Cut, I will hopefully be able to use a Tripod.
Maybe because it's the Christmas season soon, I could film the Christmas lights that are around and maybe film a shopper so the camera can follow what they do.
For Montage I could film a fighting sequence, or a two people falling in love. I would film multiple scenes using one camera, maybe also using a tripod. For Jump Cut I will film someone walking quite a long distance and then take out parts to create the jumps, also using one camera. For Parallel Cut, I will film two different shoots which can relate to the same thing, so maybe someone walking in one place and then someone in another. For Match Cut, I will get someone to jump in one place and then landing in another.
For all of my shoots I will use one camera, and apart from Jump Cut, I will hopefully be able to use a Tripod.
Maybe because it's the Christmas season soon, I could film the Christmas lights that are around and maybe film a shopper so the camera can follow what they do.
Montage
For my montage edit, I decided to film a shopper walking around town and looking at all the Christmas lights. What I like about it is the natural way of filming, I didn't use a tripod but carried the camera with my hands, making it shake a little when I moved, making it look like the camera would be following the shopper. The improvements I need to make is to make the film a bit longer, it doesn't seem to be long even montage because usually they can be quite long as they're showing a range of different shots. Another improvement could be the music, I find it to 'basic' for a Christmas montage and I should of used a softer audio instead.
Jump Cut
For my Jump Cut edit, I filmed a shopper walking past shops to them focus on the Christmas tree at the end. What I've noticed is the audio seems to have cut off, when editing this didn't happen so I think a problem has occurred that needs to be fixed. An improvement for this edit is to maybe film a longer walk, so the location changes because looking at it now, it all kind of looks similar. I would also like to change my audio because I thought at first it went well with the edit but I've also used it for two other edits of mine.
Match Cut
I need to change the setting on my camera because I've noticed that this Match edit looks very blurry. I do like this edit a lot, from going to one Christmas tree to another but I'm disappointed with the film quality, maybe because it was dark and the lights around were too harsh so it become blurred, when filming it looked good so maybe when uploading to YouTube the quality changed, something I need to fix.
Parallel Cut
My parallel cut is very different from my other three edits, it isn't Christmas themed but the idea is a lady in two different locations is walking to the door to ring the doorbell. The quality is good at some points but once again it turns blurred. I do think I need to add audio but I'm still not sure on what is should be because I still haven't decided what the theme of the edit really is. My parallel cut is my favourite out of the four because I think it's long enough and it does show two different locations but of someone doing the same thing.