The Magic of Movies

Summarize each of the six when to make a cut. Why do you think cutting on emotion and story are so much more important than the other four? I think these two rules are much more important because they are essentially what captures the audience. Cutting on those two important rules creates a greater impact, unlike the other rules. Story means it has to keep moving forward and not leave on an awkward long pause, or a random confusing point. It all has to make sense, be precise, and most of all be clear. The story and progressive/consistent flow. Emotions are what makes the audience feel and connect with what's going on. 

Summarize the three techniques that he taught in this lesson? What is a way you could use each of these individual techniques going forward with your video's that you create? He taught in the video first how to enable time mapping. Secondly he taught how to create a keyframe and lastly adjust the speed for your video project. Each of these techniques help you make your video look more better and helps fix whatever might seem off or needs a little bit of tweaking. 

The "L" cut is a type of cut where the audio of the first clip plays under the next clip. The "J" cut is a type of cut where the audio of the second clip plays under the next. These cuts often can soften the transition between clips. They can improve your edit by adding more creativity. Typically you expect a visual cue but this takes it on another level and makes your editing look and sound even better.

What are three key new things about transitions that you learned from this video? Why did you find each of these interesting? I learned about the fade/cross dissolve transition, when using this transition you have to make sure you're using the right scene, the right moment. Otherwise the scene will come out cheesy, or is an obvious cheap cover up with a lack of thought. The second transition is the hidden wipe it's a type of transition that moves you into another scene by usually moving you with the foreground. This transition can be executed perfectly when you have something or someone pass by the lens and there you go, you're onto the next scene. The third technique is cutting on action it's connecting two shots by matching or following through the action at the end of one shot and the start of the next. I found each of these transition techniques interesting because they're useful when it comes to certain scenes you might want to do.

Summarized three of the shortcuts from this video that you plan on using going forward. What are each one's functions? How can they save you time going forward. The three commands I learned were back slash button which helps you see everything in your timeline for your video project. Shift and +/- this command helps with functioning your audio and video. The final command I learned was shift+p which helps change your thumbnail to whatever you want. These new learnt commands will help save me time and get my work done at a much more efficient pace.

What is a natural transition? What are the three different techniques that this video mentions? The wipe transition was the main topic of this video. A wipe transition is a technique used in post-production editing in which one shot replaces another by moving or "wiping" from one side of the frame to another. The wipe transition generally achieves two goals 1 a change of location, 2 a passage of time. Common objects you can use to indicate a change of location are cars, doors, people, trees, or bushes, For a passage of time it would be shadows, sunrises/sunsets, sky or clouds. Objects with the same shape can be used as natural transition. The swish pan transition is a camera move movement that literally whips the camera  back and fourth on it's x-axis to create a disorienting motion blur effect.

What are the key factors to keep in mind when exporting your project on premiere pro? What are some mistakes that you've made so far that you can fix?  You have to choose your sequence settings, open the export window, and establish what platform you're using, also tune your settings, select your codec. Some mistakes I've made on Premiere Pro is incorrect titling for my time slate and incorrect timing on my time slate. What I could do the next time to solve this problem/mistake is, make sure everything is aligned correctly, watch my video project and make sure the timing is right.

Time code is the way to define a certain time. In editing there is a time indicator that you have access to. This time indicator is current it stays on wherever or whatever part of your video you're on. There are four groups of numbers in the time indicator, hours, minutes, seconds, and then frames. You can manually type in a code such as the time of the video you want to view. This code typing can apply to the hour, minute, second, and frame. In conclusion time code is a sort of tool you can use in editing to view an exact moment/part in your video editing project.

I learned all types of video resolutions. I learned some short abbreviations for different letters. I=Interlaced, P=Progressive, and HD = High Definition. I learned different video resolutions it can vary from 720, 1280, 1920, 3840 4k, and, 3840 4k UHD. Video resolution means to determine the amount of detail in your video, or how realistic and clear the video appears. 

I learned there are major differences between digital and analog technology. Analog forms can easily be interrupted, and static on radio tends to happen. Meanwhile digital technology attempts to solve this problem by encoding and transmitting data as clear cut discrete units. Clearly digital tech has more advantages, when comparing analog and digital side by side. 

You've just begun your journey into editing! How does it feel to take your first baby steps? What are three things that surprise you? What are you finding difficult?  It feels good that I get to learn more about film editing and the techniques that come along with it. It's most certainly a technical skill to practice until perfection or at least decency. Three things that surprise me about film editing is the amount of editing tools/commands needed to learn, secondly the files you have to import and export to the software, third is the amount of times needed to perfectly analyze one single video to make sure what needs to be changed/added. What I'm finding difficult is trying to figure out transitions and how to make sure the scenes are not just jump cutting from one to the other. i still have so much to learn from film editing and I still need to figure out the techniques, learn and improve from them, learn how to do the basics.

What are three concepts from this article that you can incorporate into your future montage edit?  Why did you pick these three?  How can you apply them in the edit?  Three concepts from the article are cut to action, link between scenes, inserting shots. You can apply cut to action in an action sequence. You can for example pretend to be killing your enemy but you're actually slicing an apple, that's linking between scenes. Let's say there's a scene of a marriage proposal you could do an insert shot of the ring and jewelry box close up. These are way all these montage techniques can be applied.

Summarize one of Pudovkin's techniques outlined in this video essay that interests you. How does it contribute to the storytelling in the modern movie clip that the narrator talks about? Why do you find this interesting? " The Godfather " (1972) executes a perfect example of one the main editing techniques which is contrast . There is a scene towards the end   of the film where Michael Corleone orders his mob to kill all the other heads of the New York crime mobs. During those cruel, cold, and dark events Michael Corleone (Al Pacino) is attending the christaning of his nephew.  These scenes contrast each other and it's a great editing technique being used. Parallelism   is another technique that is mentioned throughout the video. " Hugo " (2011) is a great example/use of parallelism it first shows a scene of the cogwheels that function in a clock and then transitions to a scene of Paris and how everything moves like the clocks cogwheels.   It represents t...

 Three editing tools I learned were the Rate Stretch Tool, lengthens or shortens a clip which speeds it up or slows it down. Second tool is the slip tool, command Y. Changed in and points of two clips (keeps time and trims two surrounding clips. Third is slide tool. Moves clip left or right in timeline snd trims two surrounding clips. These tools are important to learn in premiere because it's a basic skill set that you need to learn and know in order to edit more in ease. Not knowing these tools will make editing on Premiere and editing in general a much more difficult challenge.

Cutting on action is a way of preserving continuity and making cuts flow together. It helps you make your cuts invisible and draws viewers into your story. It’s important to pick a spot in the action that will connect the two shots. This doesn’t mean that you have to cut there, but these are natural places to change camera angles. These are two important things to note when it comes to cutting on action.

 Mise En Scene means "placing on stage." It includes the things that movies have in common with plays. That means props, lighting, wardrobe, blocking and the number of layers in the scene:foreground, middle ground, background. Movies have moveable cameras to represent the otherwise fixed audience of a play. That is to say the aspect ratio of the frame, the camera angles, focus, lens focal length and any other color treatments to the film of the video.It wraps up many of the elements of video making that you have already learned about; from composition, to focal length, to the use of negative space.

What was the significance of Birth of a Nation?  What was its terrible legacy? The significance Birth of A Nation brought was how historic it is for being a disgustingly racist film about the Ku Klux Klan. Black people were the "evil" and the Southern were good people. It's a terrible legacy for it's negative political propaganda that it brought to the past society. It was sort of like a "trend".  The Ku Klux Klan gained popularity and more members after many people saw the film. It was an uproar of the KKK.  

This was the first film to truly execute action. The film was iconic and historically significant, for it's Western-like creativity.  It's very possible that they took inspiration from editing techniques from older films, such as Thomas Edison's The Execution of Mary, Queen of Scotts (1898). In the play, the curtain fell before the axe did, but in the film version, the camera was stopped for a dummy for the actress. 

A folder in the online world is a bin it allows you to organize your videos kinda like a playlist. Name your files, make individual collections, easier to find. Label which clips came out good. Theres a lot of different ways to organize. The process of organizing your media can be time consuming. The video overall taught me how I should keep my files organized.