Reading & writing

The Bare Bones Camera Course For Film and Video by Tom Schroeppel

Ch. 10 – After the Shoot – EDITING

• Incorporate audio with your final edits
• Remind yourself of your script before making edits/cuts, you need to know your project inside and out (hence why the pre-planning docs are so necessary).
• While editing, make sure your story comes together seamlessly by looking for natural cuts & flow from the shots.
• Sound, background noise, pacing of audio, and sound effects can make or break your final version. They carry the mood & feeling the audience receives from your story, and those aspects are crucial for them to completely understand what you’re trying to convey.

Research to inform

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This is a VERY long video, but I really love the editing done and the style of filming. This video production team adapts scenes from books. This video in particular is adapted from book 3: A Court of Wings and Ruin (ACOWAR), a series by Sarah J. Maas.

Throughout the video, I really like how the camera crew switches from a shaky video to stills and all of the different angles and shot types. It makes a compelling rendition of this scene from the book. It’s -almost- how I imagined it, but then again it will always be better in the minds of readers than a live action (sorry! I am hoping that the Hulu series lives up to expectation, though. The author is a co-creator so that makes it seem very promising!).

At 0:33, Feyre shares a memory with Rhys about what happened to free their friend Amren through their bond. The editing of the audio really did me in, it was perfect. And the way the editors blurred the video enhances the audiences’ perspective on their bond.

You see that kind of video editing and audio echoing at 2:25 when Feyre starts to mend the cauldron using Rhysand’s last resource of power. The background music and sound effects during this resealing also has the audience on the edge of their seat for what is to happen to Rhys. The last shake of the camera before Feyre lets go, and the sudden stillness of the camera is almost jolting. At around 3:36, after Feyre realizes Rhys is dead, the slow motion really has this fact set in with her silent screaming.

At 12:26 Feyre and Rhys make a bargain that is then reflected int he Illyrian tattoos on their skin. I loved how the audience was able to see this, and I love how the swirls come together in the already present tattoos. The background music in this section of the scene is superb and brings the emotions fully RUNNING to the forefront of my brain. Then the little moment of the wings appearing at the end, UGH! Love.

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This video is about editing an indie film that turns into a major box office hit. That being said, I’ve never watched this nor heard about it until I was searching on YouTube for examples of movie edits. I will only be critiquing what is shows in this YouTube video about the behind-the-scenes.

I both like and dislike the editing of this video. My first dislike is the input of a document image, but it’s edited to look shakey and blurred. It’s a personal ick of mine that movies/documentaries do when they don’t have a shot of someone working on the paper or something similar too it. They just wanted to break up the shot list, so they decided on this.

Another thing I disliked was that the screens were zoomed in on a lot, as if they didn’t know what else to do to fill shot sequences for the YT video. It’s repeated a lot and got very annoying.

What I did really appreciate was the actual behind-the-scenes showing their editing software and all of the components that go into editing the film. I also really enjoyed when they explained WHY they were zooming in and the process of the adjustment layer of Premiere Pro. It was really cool to see the professionals use the same software as myself, being a student.

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I thought this video on how Interstellar (2014) was edited was really interesting. The way that this YouTube video is formatted was cool, too. They briefly explained the plot of the film before delving into the editing.

I like that the audio mainly comes from narration, but I don’t mind that the creator of the YT video cuts in every now and then when they’re actively doing something on their screen. The creator also delves into the storytelling a bit, talking about the different components of scenes and how they fit together within the film.

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