VIDEO EDITING: The Meeting

Introduction

For this assignment we worked on a project called the meeting, were two friends Dave and Steve have a phone conversation on were to meet each other and Dave is urging Steve to hurry up to meet him for a "meeting", this then becomes a dramatic race against time for both friends to meet up, before then plans are being put at risk. our group was then given the option of either both the characters meet up( happy ending)or they both miss each other(bad ending).

Task

The task we were given of the meeting, in my opinion was a massive success if compared to my spaghetti hero video, the reason why it was successful in my opinion is that the whole class grouped together for the logging sheets and took less time , than what my previous assignment logging sheets were, what I personally did was mark up the logging scenes and use the A1 camera to find what I wanted , then marked it up on the script. this then helped to collect the scenes my group wanted to put onto final cut with the HC9 camera( and go on "log and capture" to get them. firstly got most of Dave's and Steve's conversation to concentrate on their scenes first, however their were some issues like the voices talking ahead of another voice and their actions didn't flow well, this issue was later solved by cutting areas of clips in the timeline and separating up a bit more. then we got more scenes of Dave coming out of his office and Steve running to the college(used the soundtrack eye of the tiger for a nostalgic moment). were they will unfortunately miss each other(bad ending). their were moments in the clip were there were interruptions and more unwanted voices, but were easily removed by cutting areas off and lowering the volume levels.

Likes and Dislikes

What i like is the easy method , our group took to make things easier to put our clips down on the mac. however I disliked to terrible acting , which made our assignment fairly difficult to produce.

skills

The skills I have learnt from this assignment would be, using the lock tool(to keep things I want intact). learnt how to select clips using the "shift" key for stuff like pacing clips somewhere or coping and pasting.

LEARNT

Straight Cut Pacing

what i could say i have learnt from this assignment would be my knowledge of editing. like creating "straight cut pacing,which gives a illusion of actions happening in current events,even though they are both separate scenes, i was also told that a minimum of 3-4 second of clip is enough before an audiences has time to get bored of it.
For example straight cuts are quick transitions from one shot to another, mimicking the way the human eye sees the world, but also could become harsh and even confusing when there's no the cue that suggests a change has taken place.

showing the length of clips on timeline.

Cross- Cutting

Learnt cross cutting, were actions happen in two different places at the same time, which creates drama and suspense. for example scenes were Steve and Dave are both moving at the same period, which keeps the audience interested on how the story should end.

Cutting on an action

Cutting on an action was a technique to show continuity within the scenes of Dave and Steve, it also gives the scenes its importance and hides the ends of faults.

Example of cutting on action were overlapping clips occur

Sound Bridges

Our group created sound bridges by accident, but worked out with the phone conversation , because they both talk to each other at that same moment, and hid the editing well, but in the end we did not use it for our meeting "conversation".

example of sound bridge

None- Diegetic Music

I used a song called "eye of the tiger" to give our meeting video a creative life, which helps reinforce the story, drama, and suspense sense of continuity, this is called "Non - Diegetic Music" which is visible on the screen or whose source is implied to be present by the action of the film.