Editing
Hey Friends- This week is going to be short and sweet so you have plenty of time to work on filming your movies and commercials. Some important reminders, date/deadline for these projects-
You should be done filming very soon and get to work on editing. APRIL 17th will be our last day for this class. Everything needs to be finished by that last day. We will present to the class our films and share our successes and failures, our likes and dislikes, our hopes and dreams. Then a week later we will show them all to our families at the Oscars Night. We are swapping with History that month. We will need that extra week to get everything prepped for the big movie premiere the following week. Remember each group is responsible for a finished short film, and each individual is responsible for a 15-30 second commercial.
This week we’ll learn about editing. Each group should have at least one someone who has done some editing in the past. If you need help at all- Brother Ballard has offered to help, as he has some experience with video editing.
Here we go. Were are going to check out a couple articles- read through them, watch videos if they have some. Think about how this should apply to your film. What do you want to keep? What do you need to add to help tell the story? What is not helping the story and can be cut out?
Read this article: https://noamkroll.com/the-psychology-of-film-editing-the-impact-on-your-audience/
Now read this one: https://boords.com/blog/filmmaking-101-what-is-film-editing
And here’s some videos. (Note the first video does not start at the beginning- I’ve set it to skip some irrelevant info at the beginning.)
That is all I have for this week. Get a taste for the hows and whys of editing and work with your groups this week to finish your filming. Our hope is that Thursday will be the final day you will need to film. That being said- you may find this week, after considering how to edit your film, that you need to go shoot some b-roll footage for your movie. These are the shots you would cut-away too, or establishing shots to show the environment, or setting, or some close-up reaction shots, etc. If you can’t get those done by thursday make sure you plan to get them done soon so you can work on editing and finishing up these awesome movies. And your COMMERCIALS TOO!!
In closing- I may have showed this in previous classes but that’s because it’s true, so just watch it again, says I:
