Our teacher wasn't in for today's lesson so we had another media teacher with us today. As he isn't our regular teacher, the lesson got off to a bit of a slow start because he wasn't aware of what hard drives we had saved our film clips to. However, after a while we were settled into our groups and loaded up the clips on the computer.
We weren't sure of which scene to start with as their was a clip where someone's hands was shuffling cards and dealing out then stopped or there was a clip where someone shift-looking was walking down a corridor and about to walk in to where the game was being held. We decided on the hands shuffling the cards as this was a good way to open the scene, when then cut to the person walking down the corridor and we had close-ups of him pausing before he entered and a one of him where we can see a gun being hidden in his trousers. The scene then cuts to the rest of the card players being dealt cards. There are then a lot of close-ups of the two male characters and their facial expressions; we tried to show that their was mistrust amongst them. The scene ended when the person with the gun shows the other male character his gun and cuts on his shocked response.
It was very hard to do because we had to get our timing perfect, whereas with the practice clip we had in the other lesson, it was filmed with extra time between when the director said cut and the end and the beginning so it was easier to link the shots together. In our scene, some of the shots were cut very sharp and there isnt alot of continuity near the end; this was because we were running out of time and we thought it would be better to finish editing than leave it half finished.
When it comes to the real thriller scene I've learnt to carefully plan every scene and know why each camera angle is being used and what effect we are trying to create. Using time carefully because we thought we had alot of time during this practice and in the end everything was rushed and even though I was satisfied with the scene it could have been much better. Also because our shots weren't perfect and weren't planned it was hard to cut and put them together so this took up alot of our time which meant that we didn't get to put in music over the scene like the other groups did.
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Well done, Yvonne. Your comments show a really good awareness of what you've learnt so far.
Your actual film (first practice) is quite sophticated for a first attempt and shows a good use of continuity editing and close-ups especially when Adam is outside the room. It's a little jerky in places and has a few errors as you point out but overall, it's very good. I especially like the closing shots of Omarr!
Danny
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