Week 9: The Edit
Week Nine
Workshop
Where the edits go wrong, an understanding of what not to do
This workshop taught me that of course edits can go wrong anywhere, but there are a few major rules that you can work with in order to prevent common mishaps and issues occurring during the editing process.
(1) Don't leave all of the editing to One group member. this is a common mistake that goes wrong often especially if someone uses their own laptop, the software in the studios is more up to date that any of the software someone has at home so the film may not be compatible.
(2) not telling your group the changes that have been made. This is simply polite as well as avoiding something that may potentially become very problematic. People may become confused and simply not understand how the film is coming together, or some group members might just disagree with the changes and your group becomes a hostile environment.
How to capture material and begin the rough edit
What we intend to do as a group is to go through the footage we have shot and deleting or moving unusable footage to a different file. naming all of your files and moving them into compatible folder is a good way to stay organised. A paper edit or a way to plan your narrative journey and how you should put it together on screen is really helpful and should always be put on paper first.
- *This Timeline was reasonably easy to stick to, i managed to order our actual footage in a very similar order, with some minor changes although i had to add some extra archive footage and cutaways to allow the narrative to be more fluid and much more visually interesting.
Reading
Rabiger, M. (2004) Directing the Documentary, London: Focal Press. 34 Editing: The End Game.
Workshop
Where the edits go wrong, an understanding of what not to do
This workshop taught me that of course edits can go wrong anywhere, but there are a few major rules that you can work with in order to prevent common mishaps and issues occurring during the editing process.
(1) Don't leave all of the editing to One group member. this is a common mistake that goes wrong often especially if someone uses their own laptop, the software in the studios is more up to date that any of the software someone has at home so the film may not be compatible.
(2) not telling your group the changes that have been made. This is simply polite as well as avoiding something that may potentially become very problematic. People may become confused and simply not understand how the film is coming together, or some group members might just disagree with the changes and your group becomes a hostile environment.
How to capture material and begin the rough edit
What we intend to do as a group is to go through the footage we have shot and deleting or moving unusable footage to a different file. naming all of your files and moving them into compatible folder is a good way to stay organised. A paper edit or a way to plan your narrative journey and how you should put it together on screen is really helpful and should always be put on paper first.
Feedback on process
This friday is when me and my group have decided to try and get the rest of our filming done.
We plan to visit all of the locations we want to film and shoot cutaways.
Checklist:
- Astoria
- Dukes at Komedia
- Odeon
- The Haunt Nightclub - Former cinema
- Day's Resturant- Former Cinema
- Duke of York
- various cutaways of Nightclubs, Resturants & people
-Surprisingly we actually did stick to this checklist, although we failed to get enough cutaway footage of restaurants, nightclubs and people, but this was something that was easily rectifiable.
Reading
Rabiger, M. (2004) Directing the Documentary, London: Focal Press. 34 Editing: The End Game.
- Diagnosis: After editing a debilitating familiarity sets in. making a flow chart or block diagram of your film to gain an overview of its ideas and intentions. this is to keep you engaged in your own work and allow you to take a step back to view and understand your direction.
- Editing: Most documentary editing involves compression, this could potentially alter the meaning of the article that has been reduced, this could lead to misrepresentation which is a difficult effect of compression that you have to deal with. you have to be in a position to justify every act, change and edit you have made to aid your narrative flow.
- Public Screening: Legal and Ethical issues within the film, regarding the subjects, music, location etc.
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