Graces media studies

Whilst doing our editing for our film opening we have already encountered many problems making it more difficult. As a result of our location there is a lot of background sound. Although this is useful in some of the shot sequences, when the characters are talking it makes it more difficult to hear them, so we have therefore had to use voice overs.  In many of our sequences we did not get transition shots, therefore making the clip seem jumpy at points. As a result of Lauren and I having to leave the inside of Covent Garden we were not able to get all the shots we wanted, making the opening scene less effective.  We have carried on looking at the robbing scene from 'Focus' to see the type of music and time of shots they have use for inspiration.  We have been using free play music to look for nondigetic music to add to our film opening, although we have not yet found one that is suitable for our opening. 

This is our rough cut of our film opening. We showed it to a focus group who gave us a lot of good feedback! Some of the short clips were inconsistent and not really relevant to our film, so we will need to cut them out. We now have a lot of sound editing to do.

Match on action  This is a movie editing technique where the editor cuts one shot and immediately begins with another which matches the first shots action. Common examples of this technique is someone opening a door and opening the knob from one side, the shot then cuts to another shot of the door being opened from the other side. Although the shot may have been taken hours apart, the viewer is given the impression its a continuous flowing shot. Another example of this is a scene from friends below. Shot reverse shot This is another movie technique often used in films. It is where one character is shown to look at another character, often off screen, then the second character is shown looking back at the first character. This then gives the viewer the impression both characters are looking at each other. An example of this is a scene from the Hunger Games shown below. The 180 degree rule  This rule is a general guideline, in film making in regard to the spatial...