Looking through the footage i thought i would edit the scene in which they are sitting in the lounge. I started off with naming my clips and as the crew used a clapper board i named the clips with the shot numbers and takes too.

I looked through the script to help with the rough edit but i just went of what i thought would fit best. Thisndidnt take long to do.

Once i had a rough assembly i got Chris to go through it and he showed me how much they mess their lines up. I tried to cut most of it out but there is still one part where Alf says No twice but i think if i get rid of the second no it will jump too much so left it in.

I tried to make sure i used a lot of CU's to help the audience to get involved in the actions but i used the odd long shot to show the actions and reactions to certain things, such as when Penny shows them the Laptop. Also when Alf makes the comment about the emails being shit i left a little break before Tony starts talking so that the audience can have a moment laughing at the joke.

Chroma key is also known as Blue Screening and is when the actor standing in front of a large blue screen and acts out the actions. The camera operators then switch the Blue Screen for the background that they want. You have to be careful what colour key is used so that you avoid colour bleeding. Traditionally the colour is blue but more frequently the colour is green as skins tones stands out well. also if the colour has bleed then is can be more covered up easier. 

Luma Key is similar to Chroma Key but is do with the brightness levels. A brightness level is set then either higher or lower pixels from this point can be turned off. This works better with black and white as it is good at creating greyscale images.

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Was looking at montages the other day in the lesson and Chris used 127 Hours opening as a good example of one.

A montage is basically a sequence of short shots that show a progressive in time condensed into a few shots. They are primarily used to open a film to help set the scene or during a film to progress the time on without making a jump. A famous example of a montage sequence is from Rocky I when he is training. This sequences shows him training and running along changing locations. It shows the audience a long period of narrative time but in a very small amount of air time. As a viewer you except this quick progression and jump cuts as it is still chronological and makes sense as shows the natural progression.

Danny Boyle choose to use a montage sequence at the beginning of his film 127 House to help set up the themes for the film. This sequence is made up of split screen shots of crowded places with a lot of movement, this relates as an opposite to how James Franco is during the majority of the film when he is stuck in with arm behind a boulder. It shows so much communication and busy enviroments mixed in with shots of James Character getting ready to go out on his own without any form of communication with anyone, isolated almost.

When editing my Narrative pieces i had to ProRess all the clips as we had filmed on DSLR cameras. Here are the steps I took to do it. 

When opening Mpeg Streamclip you are presented with this window. Ignore it an select at the top under the heading List, "Batch List". You will then be presented with this:

You then clip "Add Files" and select the footage clips from the DS Card. When selected you must make sure the settings are correct before continuing. the compression must be "Apple ProRes 442" and the quality must be 100%. Must also check the frame size that it matches the capture size. When I was burning a quicktime to DVD i had to click limit data rate so that it would be small enough to fit onto a DVD. 

Once done click "To Batch" and click go to start Proressing.

As I wasn't sure on how Jonny edits and I wanted to make sure we have a proper structure to the piece I said to him that I would go through all the interview stuff and organise the interview to make a structure to the piece and Jonny said he would go through and sort out the footage and put sequences together so then we could combine the interview bits I have with cutaways and sequences that Jonny had put together.

After Spending a lot of time going through all the tapes and doing a transcript for int interview I then started going through and picking out the part I felt were strong and deciding how I thought they would best fit together. When editing my Documentary together last semester Debbie had suggest that I edited into sections of the different subject matters as then it would be easier to move around each section until I was happy with the overall structure. I took a similar approach to this. I got the section introducing rock climbing, bit on rock climbing at Stanag Edge, piece on safety and then the piece on Bouldering. I decided that it would be easier to figure out the overall structure when had the actual sequences of climbing as we could see what pieces follow on well and what pieces don't.

Meet with Jonny one day and he said he had made a start on the introduction to the piece. When he showed me it it was only a small number of shots together. I didn't really think it worked well as an introduction as was him pulling rope up at the top of the cliff and I made it clear to him that I didn't think two of the shots worked next to each other as they are too similar and I don't like how it seemed like a jump cut.

Edit of interviews

Couple of days after I organised to meet Jonny so that we could start going through the interview and clips together and start piecing them together. When Jonny came in he was unable to show me what he had done since last time as someone was on the Mac he was on previously. Then when they left he then said he hadn't don't much else since last time. As he then sat there on Facebook and not helping I decided I would then go home and do it in the comfort of my house.

Edit when meet Jonny day before

Jonnys edit of the cutaways and climbing sequences

Jonnys ending sequence edit 

The Day before it was due in he then had produced me with all the work he had been doing. I felt that this was a very poor amount for him to do. At this point I had already done an rough edit with a small gap in the middle of about 30 seconds and about 30 second at the end. He was surprised I had done so much but I felt that as it was due in the next day a lot more should be done before this point.

I left Jonny with the edit on my Mac and he added in a few shots at the end. These did look alright but then when I actually filled in the rest of the gaps they did not work with continuity so I had to change them. All the tracks that I had edited to and used I don't think worked very well with the piece so I said to Jonny, as he was sitting there not doing anything, to try and find some music we could use. After only finding one track that didnt not go with the piece at all he then had to leave.

I then decided that as I had done everything for this and most of the last piece I would make the edit presentable and then leave it as that. I filled in the last few gaps and then left it. I was not happy with how it was. I think the interview pieces flowed well and was a good structure but then the sound, music and the cutaways made the piece weak.

I found it very hard as I was doing it on my own and didn't get to discus or get another viewpoint on it so got stuck on what to put in the gaps. I think if I was to have this help from Jonny this piece would have been a lot stronger but its hard when I dont have that support. Im very fussy when it comes to my edits and I'm a perfectionist but in no way did i stop jonny from doing anything but when it got the a few days before it was due i wasn't going to not do anything just because hes suppose to as i want to create good strong pieces of work.

Edit that was Presented

Presentation

Everything people said i agreed with. the music level are all over the place but ideally i would put it into Soundtrack Pro and do the sound properly. I think it was George that said he want to be able to hear him climbing and not the music. I was a bit cautious of this as thought i might be boring and just put music on it so that it was a bit more interesting. But i do agree i think parts need to have breaks in the music too and when I go over it I think I will definitely make sure that this. Some of the things that were pointed out i already knew, like the text and the music then, but i was planning on redoing the titles and making it in time i just hadn't had time too.