Editing

Today in class we went through the micro-features: Movement/editing. We learnt about the types of camera movements, such as:

• Pan
• Tilt up/Tilt down
• Pedestal
• Track (forward/back)
• Crab (left/right)
• Hand-held
• Point-of-view shot
• Stedicam
• Zoom

We also went through what editing is:

• Essential part of post-production.
• Selection of film.
• How shots come together.
• Pace of editing.
• Enhancing or improving an image.
• Orders the narrative
• Transitions.
• Style of editing.

Editing is a post-production technique in which the fotage shot during production is cut up and reassembled in such a way as to tell the story.

The editor decides:

• The order of the secenes.
• The pace of the scenes.
• Which scenes to include or discard.

Edititng includes:

• The speed (shot duration).
• The style (connection(s) of shots).
• Transitions.

In class we were given the camera shots of:

• Eye-line Match
• Cross Cutting

We had to create a video in groups for each of there camera techniques and edit them together. This is the video:

http://youtu.be/c5f7JhSlqbU