June 22, 2015


my last blog post

its coming up on the last week of video editing and it kinda sucks i hope i pass the course coz all i wont to do is edit i think that this couse has gone really well and i hope next simester is the same hope to see everyone back and ready to go after the mid year break i have no idea what else to say but i hope to edit alot more in the future

no to finish my show reel and hand that in on time

JUNE 7, 2015

editing my interview

Editing my interview was the most fun I have had in a long time I don't know what it is about it but every time it comes to editing good footage I fall in love and just want to keep going and going but my tutor Patrick says we have to take a break every hour and I'm taking other classes so I don't really have time to just edit for a day straight which I have been wanting to do since the course started. anyway editing the interview was easy I had most of it done in two days I was just playing around with the footage making it funnier and trying to have fun it was three days to the deadline and i realized i had not colour corrected or changed the volume knowing i still had time i took it slow and took a day on each this leaving just under a day to render once I handed it in I watched over it and I found a few sound mistakes not happy with them and seeing them like a sore thumb every time we watched it in class everybody else had a good time watching it, but all I saw was the mistakes next time I have to edit I will leave plenty of time to cheek through things and make it to my standard.

48 HOURS

The 48 hour was one crazy time we had 25 + people in our team we were all sitting down waiting for the text, but it never come so I rang Craig and he said we had horror we were so happy but we never knew how hard it was going to be having a group of 25 people that means 25 differents types of personalities to talk to and work with it was definitely an experience but it was good to work with a big group as I learned more then I think I would have if I was in a small group that went perfectly the group worked well and it came out perfect in the end

3rd-year project

so I agreed to help out with the third year project 

we are filing in the holidays 

2nd week 

anyway, I spent the second week of my holidays on the set of the 3rd years film beast of something, early mornings and normal cold Invercargill days were just the start. I spent the whole week following Tyler around helping with lighting/gaffing, I never got how important daylight was on a film set if you're shooting outside. we used 2 different types of lights they were dedos and the blonde. while on set I learnt time skills how to light the scene and talent and got to know the third years I was happy to help out.

MAY 17, 2015



colour corection

colour correction is really easy to get the hang of all you use is RGB curves and 3 colour wheel when u get a clip you add RGB onto the clip and the first thing you do is start with the luma and turn that down or up keeping it under 1.0 and make sure the chroma is above 0.3

this site can explain what I want to say

https://helpx.adobe.com/premiere-pro/using/color-correction-adjustment.html

MAY 10, 2015

so we have to do a speech and I have never actually done one every time I got out of it and managed to get away with it not this time!!  so we all got a topic some hard and some not I got my presentation on interlaced and progressive scan. I had to learn what it was so I researched lots of things and finally found out that the p in 1080p means progressive so the I in 50i means interlaced. interlaced is two columns put together to make up the image of the screen and progressive is the whole screen being done at once.During the speech, I was shaky and I hated it I was glad it was over I ended up getting a c- on it but in fine with that cs get degrees.

APRIL 5, 2015

its hard for me to explain what each stage is so I used the definition from a website

First Assembly

The editor considers all the visual and audio material collected on the shoot for each scene and then re-orders it in the way to tell the story best.

Rough Cut 

The rough cut can take up to three months to complete. Each editor works differently. Sometimes the editor works alone and shows the day or weeks work to the director and producer, Sometimes the editor and director work together, discussing every nuance. As I got told by John Gilbert in my interview with him.

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0003016/?ref_=rvi_nm 

First Cut

The first cut is a basic cut that is accepted by the editor, the director, and the producer. every shot is in the right places, although changes can still be made. The later film is visible. 

Hint: Never be afraid to let the first cut ‘rest’ for a few days so everyone involved can see it with fresh eyes.

Fine Cut

The fine cut no longer focuses on the entire film, but on the details of each and every cut. This makes the film look more like a film and good for the first cut.

Final Cut

When a fine cut has been agreed with the editor, director and producer, the sound designer, music composer and title designer join the editor. Sound effects and music are created and added to the final cut. When everyone has agreed with the final cut, the Edit Decision List is sent to the lab where a negative cutter ‘conforms’ the negative to the EDL in order to create a negative that is an exact copy of the final cut.

References 

http://www.raindance.org/the-6-stages-of-editing-as-a-film-director