Most of the editing was completed over the holidays, so today majority of the editing was already completed. From watching a few times, we saw only that only a few adjustments had to be made.
1) Match on action cuts: there were a few which were used throughout our film and I think that some could have been more precisely time, so that the direct continuity between the moving object could be more flowing. Another reason that time is important in a match on action cut is so that the actor does not repeat an action twice in two consecutive shots. This was the case for one of our match on action cuts between 1:30-1:38, where Justin repeats the same action twice. By making the first shot shorter, it will make the scenes connect in a more flowing fashion, thus making the match on action cut more cohesive.
2) Subtitles: Deciding to base our film on the Charlie Chaplin, our film was a silent movie. Where the only sound was of the typical piano silent movie soundtrack. This also meant that there was little talking in our film and had to rely on subtitles to depict what the characters were saying. One improvement for the current subtitles in our film is to have the dialog near the character who is saying it. For instance, at 1:25 both Justin and Lucas are talking and there are two sets of subtitles, although I know exactly what is going on and who is saying what, I think for the benefit of the audience that the subtitles should be positioned close to the person who is saying them. This will show the audience who is saying what more clearly.
3) Cinematography: Lighting to be more specific. Mainly because most of our portals were in one location, when a portal occurs, the last second and the first second of two shots (where the portal occurs) have to identical in order to make the portal convincing. One such instance was during 5:14 in Daniel's house. Most of the portals worked quite well except one portal where there was a distinct change in lighting and where it was very noticeable that a cut was made. Having been editor with our last project, I suggested that we use the 3 way colour corrector or the RGB balance to make the lighting in the two shots similar to cover up the cut and to make the cut less obvious and consequently making the portal look more realistic.
Overall, only a single period we spent today's lesson looking through our film and noting down possible ways to improve it. Mostly the comments were just minor adjustments. Generally, I was very content and impressed by the outcome, Justin and Henry did a great job editing! On showing Ms. Wong, she suggested that we have more portals that lead to different locations rather than portals within one locations. By having portals that are allow the characters travel a greater distance, it will explore a vaster amount of locations and thus make our film more interesting. However, we didn't think that this would work too well, in the context of our film. In our film, only Justin can transport himself (with the device). This would make it difficult for the teacher (Henry) to chase him if he could just portal himself into a completely different location. Although I completely agree that by having more portals that take the characters into a complete different location would make our film very interesting, it would not be effectively applicable to the story of our film.
Today exercised my "knowledge" on filming to notice continiuety problems and areas in our film that could be edited better. I also had to "reflect" on my personal experience in filming and apply certain techniques (e.g. the colour correction) and insights to our film. Today also exercised my ability to be "open minded" to suggestions of others and from the teacher. We are now in the final stages of editing were we are now editing on a micro scale and making the final adjustments.
Monday, April 20, 2009
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