Molly La Fosse's Media Blog

To edit our preliminary task we used adobe premier pro.  We followed the storyboard to guide our editing. The first thing we did was look through all our footage and select the shots that we wanted in to be in our final piece.  We chose to mostly show the shots where the female actor looked angrier so that the audience would sympathise more with the other character. This is a way of manipulating the audience through editing.  In order to build tension we decided to make the first shot the one of Ben running to the room, followed by the other actor biting her nails to show her anxiety.  Interspersing slower, calmer shots into the more fast paced ones was effective as it slowed down the pace of the sequence and meant it didn’t look so unnatural and overly fast paced. We learnt various things from the editing process, one being that next time when we are shooting we should try to ensure there is no background noise, eg giggling or shouting, as it dis...

 On Friday we had the opportunity to shoot our preliminary task, which involved filming two characters having a short conversation. We were split into groups of four and given the storyboard above which we had to shoot in at least five different shots, including close ups and over the shoulder. My group also chose to do some extra shots to make the sequence more interesting. My group was composed of myself, Kristien, Ben and Stacey. Firstly we set up the camera on the tripod, 'bubbled' the tripod, and ensured that settings such as the focus, exposure and white balance were correct. We had learnt about the 180 degree rule in a previous lesson so one of the first things we did was set the line, marked it on the floor, and made sure to adhere to it throughout the whole process. This was especially important when filming our over the shoulder shots. The first shot we did was the long safety shot of the whole scene because this was the most important and basic shot so...

In today's lesson we worked in the editing studio and learnt how to use an editing programme called ‘Adobe Premiere Pro.' We were first taught about the layout of the programme . We learnt that folders which you put your edited work in are called 'bins'. Also, unedited footage is called 'rushes’. This is because at the end of the day the unedited footage would be rushed off to be reviewed, edited etc.  Matt told us that in order to shorten or lengthen a clip you should place the mouse on the edge of the clip, where the 'trim handle' is.  To chop the clip in half - which will separate one bit of footage into different parts - you can either use the 'razor' from the tool bar on the side, or as a shortcut you can just press the key 'C' on the keyboard. There are various other shortcuts, including pressing 'V' in order to get your cursor to go back to the normal arrow. Matt reminded us to continually press 'save' on ou...

In our second studio lesson we learnt more about the basic principles of film making, including the '180 degree rule'. The 180 degree rule is the fact that if you film something from the left then you can not go 180 degrees past otherwise you look like you have switched the direction of the object which you are filming. Matt used the example of a toy bike which he moved from left to right, right to left repeatedly and the camera made it look as if two different bikes were colliding with each other. Continuity is ensuring that all the shots are consistent throughout a sequence, ie the actor uses the same hand to pick up the object every time. This is very important because otherwise the sequence will look messy and unrealistic. We also learnt how to shoot sequences by going through various stages of taking different shot types to put together in a sequence. My group and I shot a simple sequence of someone walking into a room, sitting down then walking o...