Monday, 7 January 2013

Foundations Drama - Editing Speeds


At the beginning of the work, I noticed a continuity problem. The character Matt should on the stairs of the interview building, looked right then left and centre, took a deep breath and walked into the building. For this scene, we wanted to use a P.O.V when he looks up at the beginning, to create a personal effect as well as to link to the architecture theme behind the narrative. However when filming the P.O.V, the production team filmed the shots going the wrong way, looking in the opposite direction first, which when I put into shot, looked jarred and didn't fit, you could see it was the opposite way around and I wouldn't want to use it in the state it was in, it was also too slow to use within the time slot, it took about 10 seconds to look around, which in a 2 minute piece is a lot of time. So I decided to try work with this shot by editing the speed and the direction of the shot.

Firstly, I decided to sort out the fact that the shot was the wrong way round in regard to the way the character looked up at the building in the other shot. So to do this, I simply tried reversing the shot, which worked really well, but took some fine cutting still, to fit with the angle the character was looking at the building - but luckily this problem was solved quite easily. The using the change speed percentage, I worked with this to quicken the shot slightly, so the shot didn't linger on screen for too long. This worked really well and allowed me to solve the problem without too many issues.

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