Once the film is fully shot, the footage will need to be placed in chronological order to tell the story. Editing the footage together means a lengthy process will ensue, but ultimately resulting in the desired final product. The director will share the vision of the film to a hired editor, and may even assist with the edit. The editor will get a copy of a script, copies of the footage, and piece it all together to make the script come to life. The editor will watch through the footage, import it all to their computer to edit, and begin bit by bit with the story. An important aspect to make note of, the editor cannot necessarily edit the story however they see fit; the editor must usually adapt to the director’s storytelling style and incorporate their vision into the editing process. Meaning for the editor, updates to the director on overall progress, rough cuts allowing the director to give their input on the direction of the edit, and music suggestions to accompany certain scenes. If desired, sending certain footage off to other film editors or animators to achieve special effects will need to happen. Pacing the events in a film truly poses the more challenging aspect to a film editor. Once the story is roughly pieced together, the editor must commit more hours watching through scenes, fine tuning hundreds of clips to pace each scene just right. That way it serves to build up the pace of the film in accordance to the stages of the film’s story. Even once the director gives approval on an entire rough cut of the film, much more work still must occur before arriving at the final product. Two of the more important processes include color grading and sound design. Color grading adds flavor to the footage and contributes to the sty...
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...he story mark the beginning phases throughout the films creation. Once preparations take place, the shooting of the film can occur and bring alive the vision for the film. When all scenes are shot, the footage must now get pieced together to chronologically convey the story. Putting the footage together, pacing it, color grading, and sound design all highlight the necessary editing steps. When the film gets approved by the director and producers, it can then reach the final stages of deliverance. Marketing for the film, and distributing it through a movie theatre, DVD or Blu-Ray disc, or even online will ensure the film will get viewed by the intended audience. In the end, the purpose of film making serves to share a vision of someone’s story on a large scale, and while involving much work, the resulting standing ovations please directors and all involved with film.
Despite the significance of movie making that was developed in the creation of The Birth of a Nation, there is another reason why this particular film captured
Classical Hollywood Cinema is a chain of events that has a cause – effect relationship within a time and space. The environment looks realistic and believable to the viewers because the style is predictable, and the time is linear throughout the film. Each scene with the development of the plot and story is motivated by cause and effect. The filmmaking process involves four major steps that cut across the board. The process revolves around these levels that make it orderly to every individual involved in filming. The process has the following stages: Idea and Development, Pre-Production, Production and Post- Production. In Idea and Development it is normally
Within every history class, English class, and even some science classes, the art of storytelling is a primary foundation for human communication and understanding. Whether it be through myths – Greek, Roman, Egyptian, you pick – or wives tales or even Grandpa telling his old war stories, stories have power. Now, through technological advancements in the last 150+ years (thank you Thomas Edison for your obsession), we have film as a mode to tell stories. Fictional or not, films tell a story; they have the power to give you not only entertainment but enlightenment too. Through continuing advancements, filmmakers have the ability to challenge and manipulate the power of the story through creative resistance; by exploring other elements of storytelling via film, filmmakers can create dramatically different films from similar ideas by using a multitude of techniques. Films are even used to create social commentary.
What do you think about when watching a film? Do you focus on the characters' good looks or the dialogue? Or do you go behind the scenes and think about what made the film? Maybe, it's even a combination of all three. No matter what comes to mind first, an important part of any good movie will be what you see. A camera and good director or cinematographer is needed to make that possible. Different directors and cinematographers will use different camera techniques to make you focus on what you see. Camera techniques show emphasis in films, because they make you focus more on situations and people. They are especially important in Darren Aronofsky’s Requiem for a Dream.
With this short but very interesting and informative class I have just scratched the surface of the what it takes to make a full fleged film. It takes much more than I had presumed to make a movie in Hollywood. The number of people that it takes to make a minute of a movie let alone the entire movie was astonishing to me. There are many things that it takes to start making a movie but without an idea of some sort there is no movie to be made.
As an audience, we become involved in the plot not through learning about characters’ backgrounds and traits. Instead, we learn information at the same time through the mechanics of the plot and editing. We are made to work to understand the workings of the plot. As we watch the film unfold, the editing takes the along for the ride rather than watching from a distance. the audience and characters sweat together as surprises arise in the well-thought out plan and the way the movie ...
A set of practices concerning the narrative structure compose the classical Hollywood Paradigm. These conventions create a plot centering around a character who undergoes a journey in an attempt to achieve some type of goal (). By giving the central character more time on screen, the film helps the audience to not only understand the character’s motivation but also empathize with his/her emotional state. Additionally, some antagonistic force creates conflict with the main character, preventing immediate success(). Finally, after confronting the antagonist, the main character achieves his or her goal along with growing emotionally(). This proven structure creates a linear and relatively easily followed series of events encompassing the leading character and a goal.
It was concluded that in Classical Hollywood Cinema the narrative followed a clear and discernable structure with a distinct beginning, middle and end. Although this type of narrative did have some restrictions it still encompassed the psychology of characters and their objectives, and the inevitable conflict meant to hold the attention of the audience. Continuity editing added to the audiences’ enjoyment of the film and coupled with the attraction of the Hollywood star system they formed a type of cinema that would astonish and capture the rest of the world.
What is color? If someone were to ask you that, what would your answer be? How do you describe yellow without saying its name? You might say it reminds you of sunshine or of school buses or of warmth, but those are all examples. It’s funny how something so integral to our daily lives could be so hard to explain. Could you imagine a world entirely enveloped in grey-scale? A permanent film noir. Color is like sound, all around us, conveying emotion, shaping our world. Without it, our world would be bland; without distinction. Likewise, film is a world of its own, transporting you into its universe, putting you in the characters’ perspectives. Ever since the beginnings of film, filmmakers have looked for ways to put color in film, expanding the
Instead of just listing the over one hundred jobs in film that there are, it is better to just take a look at the three main jobs in filmmaking: director, producer, and director of photography. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, a director “is responsible for the creative decisions of a production. They select cast members, conduct rehearsals, and direct the work of the cast and crew” (“Producers and Directors”). That means they are the head honcho in charge of making sure that everything goes according to the script while also helping actors to get to know their characters better. The second most important job in film is the producer. The Bureau of Labor Statistics describes the producer's job as being the “film’s managers, beginning with securing the financing in pre production to approving the completed film in post production” (From Script #19). The producer is even higher up than the director because of the fact that the producer is in charge of finding funding for the film and making sure that the movie goes with the script. The third most important job in filmmaking is the director of photography. The New York Film Academy describes the director of photography’s job as being “the right-hand assistant of the director, and is usually entrusted to bring together and coordinate
In the anime, Attack on Titan, the director is able to create and blend different master plots: vengeance by visual editing that places flashbacks at important moments inside the story and camera angles; hero’s quest by visual cuts and transitions from different character points of view; underdog by changing camera angles. Finally, but not least temptation through the use of sound editing with actions scenery and coloring. Narrative elements used by the director inside a film can change the master plot at any critical moment inside a story, elaborating a different story that can vary depending on our way of interpreting and analyzing the world around us. The director may have a general message that he wants to convey through narrative elements as it was previously stated, but we as the audience have the last word in what the film represents even though we obtain the main idea through the manipulation of the narrative elements used by the director.
Reisz , K. & Millar, G., 2010. The Technique of Film Editing. Oxford: Taylor & Framis.
This step would focus on how you would shoot the scenes, choose the right scenes, and what application to use in editing. You need to direct the film and make sure that the script lines are properly performed by the actors. Try to get a help of other videographers, ask for tips regarding about the suitable angles in your script lines. After shooting all of the scenes, watch all of it and try to mend all the ones that would really fit with each other. You should also use video editors that are known for great interface and features. Some examples of these are ADOBE Premiere Pro, Cyberlink PowerDirector, and Windows Movie Maker.
Film editing by definition is part of the creative postproduction process of filmmaking. In today’s modern world, film has made use of advanced digital technology to help with the editing. The editor or editors are usually given a complete compilation of all the footage. These various separate shots that can be regarded as ‘ raw’ footage. Their task is to create a finished motion picture through combining and selecting shots and putting them into a coherent sequence of events. Whenever we are viewing a film it is extremely difficult to consciously perceive all the editing that has been undertaken. Every single time there is a change from one image to another, this is an edit. For editors, it could be a possible annoyance or perhaps a blessing that critics and the audience never specifically point out the editor’s contribution. However it must be noted that film editors aren’t the only ones that will contribute to a films editing.
Offering the unique ability to visually and audibly convey a story, films remain a cornerstone in modern society. Combined with a viewer’s desire to escape the everyday parameters of life, and the excitement of enthralling themselves deep into another world, many people enjoy what films stand to offer. With the rising popularity of films across the world, the amount of film makers increases every day. Many technological innovations mark the advancement of film making, but the essential process remains the same. Pre-production accounts for everything taken place before any shooting occurs, followed by the actual production of the film, post-production will then consist of piecing the film together, and finally the film must reach an audience. Each step of this process contributes to the final product, and does so in a unique right. The process of film making will now start chronologically, stemming from the idea of the story, producing that story into a film, editing that footage together, and finally delivering that story to its viewers.