*Owl City album cover for a change, cos they're AWESOMEEEEWednesday, February 11, 2009
We moved on to a new unit today, which features continuity editing. Continuity editing are the basics of conveying a storyline/plot, where an action is cut in-between and continued at a different angle, or even at a different level or point-of-view. Continuity is a vital element in film-making to increase entertainment, to perform a stunt (person jumps down a building cut to when the person lands) or to see an object from a character's point-of-view.
We began straightaway with an excercise - given a script where we have to film the lines and create a short clip that has continuity editing elements inclusive. The script we chosen was a simple four-lined script (script 4), which goes:
A: What are you looking at?
B: You
A: Who was that?
B: MY (MOM)
The last line was decisive, which meant we get to use the Clichéd joke, "MY MOM". After gathering the equipment, we got back into our old group (Jing-Ting, Elliot, Joyce, Justin Tay) and went out to film. Innovated as I always am, I was witty and provided many ideas instantly. We were being good open-minded IB learners, as well as thinkers because we are exchanging ideas spontaneously within a short duration of time.
Firstly, Jing-Ting came up with the idea of filming at the stairs outside the music rooms. This is because people use this passage much rarer than other locations, while other locations were populated by other groups from the same film class. We quickly assigned brief roles: star actor/actresses are Jing-Ting and Justin Tay, cameraman is Elliot, microphone person and assistant is Joyce, and I was director. Firstly, I planned the scene: Jing-Ting walks down the stairs and sits down on the steps. The filming was done by zooming out from a wall and panned to the stairs, continue to slowly zoom out as Jing-Ting walks down the stairs. We then cut the scene to straightaway featuring Justin Tay from Jing-Ting's point-of-view, which is a technique commonly used after filming an actor's vision.
As star actor Justin Tay arrives through the door, I planned a worm's eye view shot of Justin Tay leaping past the camera, which immediately 'boosts' the character's status. Planning further ahead, I also decide to slow-motion this scene when I edit (my trademark, which is basically slowing down certain scenes to highlight pressure and anticipation), which makes the noise sounds deeper and hence more intimidating. Purposely, I required Justin Tay to manually slow down his actions and stop his foot, so it would turn out more dramatic after editing the footage. This relates to the risk-taker factor in the IB learner profile, since we are considering the editing steps beforehand as we capture footage. I also learnt to be a more principled IB learner since I am about to be responsible for many of my risk-taking actions.
Following, we performed an eyeline pan after Justin Tay settles down beside Jing-Ting. This shows their emotions by focusing on their facial regions, mainly their eyes. Firstly, Justin Tay communicates some sort of shyness, then Jing-Ting communicates back with certain amount of disgust by pronouncing her first line, "What are you looking at?". Justin Tay then shrugs and replies in an attempting-to-be calm but bashful expression, "You". Elliot did a great job with the camera, and our star actor/actress was being their typical stars. Overall, we are balanced and extremely knowledgeable since we knew immediately what to do in our respective roles.
We cut to a more zoomed-out scene, because Justin Tay's mobile phone is about to "unexpectedly ring" as planned on our plot progression. We just made the phone play its default ringtone and we have Justin Tay pick up the phone. We did not elaborate on his conversation, since it is not written on the script, which we just did it in a quick whisper or in text-message format. We had to cut off here due to the lack of time.
Overall, we captured a reasonable amount of footage, with many high-quality and thoughtfully angled shots. Throughout, we were being good communicators in our IB learner profile, since we had many ideas to get across.
As star actor Justin Tay arrives through the door, I planned a worm's eye view shot of Justin Tay leaping past the camera, which immediately 'boosts' the character's status. Planning further ahead, I also decide to slow-motion this scene when I edit (my trademark, which is basically slowing down certain scenes to highlight pressure and anticipation), which makes the noise sounds deeper and hence more intimidating. Purposely, I required Justin Tay to manually slow down his actions and stop his foot, so it would turn out more dramatic after editing the footage. This relates to the risk-taker factor in the IB learner profile, since we are considering the editing steps beforehand as we capture footage. I also learnt to be a more principled IB learner since I am about to be responsible for many of my risk-taking actions.
Following, we performed an eyeline pan after Justin Tay settles down beside Jing-Ting. This shows their emotions by focusing on their facial regions, mainly their eyes. Firstly, Justin Tay communicates some sort of shyness, then Jing-Ting communicates back with certain amount of disgust by pronouncing her first line, "What are you looking at?". Justin Tay then shrugs and replies in an attempting-to-be calm but bashful expression, "You". Elliot did a great job with the camera, and our star actor/actress was being their typical stars. Overall, we are balanced and extremely knowledgeable since we knew immediately what to do in our respective roles.
We cut to a more zoomed-out scene, because Justin Tay's mobile phone is about to "unexpectedly ring" as planned on our plot progression. We just made the phone play its default ringtone and we have Justin Tay pick up the phone. We did not elaborate on his conversation, since it is not written on the script, which we just did it in a quick whisper or in text-message format. We had to cut off here due to the lack of time.
Overall, we captured a reasonable amount of footage, with many high-quality and thoughtfully angled shots. Throughout, we were being good communicators in our IB learner profile, since we had many ideas to get across.
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