Editing

In Editing, David talked to us about some of the rules applied during the editing process along with a task during the workshop.

Whilst continuity is essential, we often still get it wrong. David explained some rules of editing with the help of some movie examples.

180 degree tule

The rules David spoke about were:

• articulation of space: establishing shot > closer shots
• consistency of screen direction
• 180 degree rule
• match of action
• shot/reverse-shot figure
• eye-line match (point)

Then, using what we had learnt, David gave us a task and then sent us out to complete it. We were asked to go out and using 10 still shots that would work in continuity style. I done this task with Neslin, Eddis and Pierre. I think particularly think we did really well and got good feedback from David.

Before the end we were given our fifth assignment. Our first big one. For this assignment we were asked to recreate a scene from a an existing film. It took much thinking to look find one easy enough to do. This time I worked with; Pierre, producer; Joel Director; and Martin, lighting. Finally Joel suggested we did the Phone scene from the film "Memento". I took on the role of sound operator and worked recorded the sound with a zoom mic. That was my first time using it. I do believe I did a good job with it. The film also required a lot of different props that we went shopping for. The location was easy, as Pierre let us know that his room looked similar to the one from the scene.  I think we came out with a great product, mainly because of the group that I had that try to work to a professional standard always. We also had a great response from Helen, but had minor criticism regarding sound being dialogue being too loud and shadows not being hard enough. I couldn't be happier with this project; it sure was great working with these guys, and the completed product was in my opinion great!

Below is a link to the film:

Memento- phone scene recreation