Editing Practical
For the editing practical that we were set I decided to take
a clip from the 2009 drama film ‘The Blind Side’.
To make this scene more effective I decided to edit the
order of events that are shown. By changing what is shown when I made the car
crash deem like they were flashbacks that the protagonist was experiencing. To
do this I had to add a filter to differentiate and edit the sound. By making
the scenes flashbacks it gives the character a different layer as it shows how
they react and it builds tension as you’re not sure what exactly happens until
they are complete.
Method
The first thing I did was cut the beginning of the scene,
this made the final product longer but the extra bit of film that I clipped
were not needed for the task.
After I had done this I used the blade tool to cut the parts
that I wanted to move and the sections where I wanted to move them to. This was
difficult as I wanted to insert the smaller clips into gaps in the dialogue. I
had to note down the times where there was a lapse in the talking so that I
didn’t cut the clip at the wrong point.
After doing this I had to rearrange the cut up sections of
film into the order that I felt would be the best effective. I had to keep the
crash in chronological order so that it would make sense but I was also trying
to make the small clips short enough that they would be effective.
After playing the manipulated footage I realised that I
would have to fade the sounds from each clip to prevent them from sounding
amateur and choppy, I made the fade 10 seconds from each clip. The change in
image I found effective as I enhanced a sense of urgency in the scene as the
clip showed the cropped footage suddenly changing.
To make it clear that they were flashbacks I added a filter
to the parts of the clip that I had moved, this gave them a dreamlike quality
that was not wanted but the filter makes the footage look like flashbacks and
have the overall effect that I wanted.
The final product was effective like I wanted and had the
urgency that I wanted to convey. I feel like I should have edited the sound
better or faded it more in the flashback clips but the quick changing from of
scene to another gave the final product a more thoughtful finish.
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