(II) Task Two: Developing Editing Technique

Developing Editing Technique

This is a blog about first basis on In Camera Editing, where you just record scene by scene of the film.  All you have to do is just create your filmmaking ideas, put it together and record by pressing play and pause when you want the scene to record. You can record you film for minute or so but make sure you don't pause while filming, make up a sign to say that you are filming and don't laugh while holding the camera or lose you characters.

Here is some things I want to add for you to take as my advice. This part of the blog is a introduction my group over where I filming in Robert Clack for my Media BTEC class.

Our media class have been given a task to create a video that will take 60 minutes or so and make it as a first camera making film. Before making our video, we were put in a group of four or five and I became a fifth member in our group. Our group consist with Me (Theo), Babajide (Babs), Edison, Ronaldo and Usman. So we spent about 20 or 30 minutes planning how we should make a film but we couldn't decide what do in our video.

We kept on coming up with stupid filmmaking ideas but none of us agreed towards these ideas. We decided to give up from then and follow the ideas that we has chosen as the one ideas we have to make. The film that we have chosen that we all have to do under pressure was an Advertising ideas on the main item we see

Luckily one of the teachers helped us with us with decision making and he came up with a plan for us four boys talking about what boys like talking about. We all said football. So we made a quick plan as we are going to the main set of our film and we thought of our plan to make the film.

If you are wondering who is who well you in luck. Edison is playing a kid who has just watched his favorite team play last night but lost, so he is sulking at the bench. Theo and Usman are his friends complaining towards Edison on sulking about his team when they got millions of chances to play better next season. Babs is playing Edison's other friend who is mocking Edison about his love for the team. And finally Ronaldo is filming the whole thing.

After filming their is no editing in your film because it is homemade film but you do need to make the film over and over again to make it perfect by improving on the errors that you made before. Once you make a "Perfect Film", you have to send it on youtube to let your viewers see. On your phone all you have to do is get wifi, upload it on youtube, name it and then send it. In couple of minutes you find your film on youtube if you remember the name of your film. The film is ready to be watched on youtube as Babs, Theo, Edison, Ronaldo, Usman In Camera Editing.

That Developing Editing Technique complete.

(I) Task One: Editing in Early Cinema

Task One – Editing in Early Cinema

The editing of the early cinema happened due to the discovery of the kinetographic camera and the Kinetoscope created by Thomas Edison. With this invention of Edison, a group of men decided to use the new inventions to make a film after watching Thomas Edison's 35mm film strip with a projector to play it to show everyone in the audience.

Edwin S. Porter worked as an electrician before joining the film laboratory of Thomas Alva Edison in the late 1890s. He and Thomas worked together to make longer more interesting films. Porter made the breaking through film Life of an American Fireman in 1903. The film was among the first that had a plot, action and even a close up of a hand pulling a fire alarm. Porter discovered important aspects of motion picture language: that the screen image does not need to show a complete person from head to toe.

In his next film, The Great Train Robbery in 1903, Porter created an archetypal American Western story, which was known to the audience from novels and stage melodrama, and made it an entirely new visual experience. The Great Train Robbery was a one-reel film, with a running time of exactly twelve minutes, was assembled in twenty separate shots, along with a starling close-up of a bandit firing a bullet and he camera. The film used many different indoor and outdoor locations and was very groundbreaking in its use of "cross-cutting" in editing to show simultaneous action in different places.

No films before the Great Train Robbery had created such swift movement or variety of scenes like this film. The Great Train Robbery was enormously popular. For several years, it toured throughout the States, an in 1905 it was the premier attraction at the first nickelodeon. Its success firmly established motion pictures as commercial entertainment in America.

However, after the filming they each have to make a decision on which part should be accurate at the specific time for the film to be a success and back then they can't just delete a part of the film but they will be very careful on editing of the film and bringing the in the procedure to make film good for the viewers.

Another editor was known as Charles Pathe who created similar editing but with a brand new way for editing it is called Parallel Editing. Using this method, Charles Pathe created the Horse that Bolted with only two main characters, the horse and his owner, the delivery man. Although the video doesn't not exist in it own name but another name that is known as the Runaway Horse.

Finally another man who followed the path of filmmaking was D.W. Griffith was one of the early supporters of the power of editing. He also use a method which is called the cross-cutting to show parallel action in a different types of locations. his work was extremely regarded by many greatly influence the early filmmakers understanding of film editing.

That Early in Editing Camera completed.