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Step 1:
Insert the SD/MicroSD card you used to take footage/audio (you should have two, the process is the same with both audio and footage SD cards, just different folder names when organising)
Step 2: Copy the contents by highlighting all footage/audio and pressing the CMD key and C at the same time and then clicking the copy (number) items (or by right-clicking and clicking copy if you've set up secondary mouse-click) Copying means that if you make a mistake with the footage during this process then you can go back to the SD Card and re-copy it (Say if you copy a link or text mid-way through this process). Cutting will copy and delete the footage so that's a risky move and moving it means it'll be a nightmare if you place it in the wrong folder ;(
(The process shown above is the RIGHT CLICK METHOD)
Step 3: Enter the MacHD icon on the desktop screen. This is where everything on the system is stored.
Step 4: Enter the movies tab of MacHD and create a folder using your name or team name. This is where your editing should be placed to keep in organised place.
Step 5: Open the folder you created and create 4 new folders, with these names respectively We make these folders to keep all our editing material organised, so we know where to find each of our material. So you assume to have audio in your audio folder rather than thrown in a folder with your footage.
Step 6: Open the folder you're pasting your materials into (so if you're copying footage, paste it in the footage folder, if audio paste in sound folder etc.) and you've set up your materials for editing!
(BONUS STEPS:)
When finished with the SD Card, make sure you Right-Click it and click "Eject (Name of SD Card) so that the SD Card doesn't become corrupt meaning it's unstable and may not read files properly.
The episode was about the start of film. It started with how the actual film roll was used which was light shining through the film and many images moving fast to create an illusion that the objects or people in the images were moving. Most films at this point up until 1910s were only short ones which featured very few actions. However, in the 1910s the first set of feature films started to release. Editing was introduced when a man shooting a film in a streets camera jammed and the film cut so that the carriages in the street seemingly and magically disappeared from the scene, and people suddenly appeared. This is what we know now as cutting.
I learned a lot about the start of the industry, and I was pleasantly surprised with how many people who wrote and directed the films were women. I was shocked as I didn't know that the start of the film industry was run by people who weren't accepted by most of society in normal jobs, and then at the end of the 1910s it was seen to be a great way of making money from the consumers. I learnt that over 15,000 cinemas were built in the USA during this period which I think is insane considering there is only 35,000 cinemas in the USA as of December 2014.
Extract fromScott Pilgrim Vs. The World(Edgar Wright, 2010)
Scene: Scott Pilgrim Vs. Gideon Graves (Round 2)
In this scene, Scott Pilgrim, played by Michael Cera, announces
he's going to fight Gideon, not over the girl but for himself. He then kills a
bunch of ninjas with a flaming sword before running up towards the top of the
pyramid to fight the man in charge. There is a lot of editing cuts and the
action is sped up. Scott knocks Gideon down but it isn’t over yet. He shouts to
a girl to stop her from attacking the main girl, Ramona (green haired girl) and
when she does attack, Scott tells them that he cheated on them, there is hardly
any editing cuts in this part of the scene as there is no action going on and
it’s mostly drama. Both girls forgive him before Scott jumps down to take on
Gideon again in another duel. Scott’s sword is broken and Ramona saves him before
he kicks her down the pyramid. Scott and the other girl, knives, now fight him
together, with many action cuts with shots close up of their legs hitting
Gideon or their fists making contact with him. He falls to the ground before
Scott kicks him in the head and he explodes in slow-motion into millions of
coins.
Obviously all these clips are
edited in the non-linear format as they are all recorded and
edited through the computer as it's uploaded all together and many of the
frames in the footage have unique edits to them (for example, the part of the
scene where both Scott and Knives are punching and kicking Gideon has a new
punch for each frame).
There are many cuts on actions,
as a lot of the physical hits from one character onto another cut onto the
action. As previously stated in the last example, most of the punches and kicks
are cut in such a way that we only see the foot and fist against Gideon, so
that we don't see the movement but we understand what is happening due to the
previous context of the sequence and the fast-paced editing.
The clip also follows the 180
degree rule a lot, along with shot-reverse-shot as the action sequences when
both Scott and Gideon are duelling with the swords you see the camera
occasionally go behind one of them so you see the other defending against a
sword attack.
There is many jump cuts in this
sequence, from the beginning we see it jump cut when he jumps down one step and
then a jump cut when the drummer lifts her drumsticks, we also see jump cuts
during the action sequences a lot and around 90% of the cuts in this movie are
jump cuts, especially in this sequence.
The sequence also uses
juxtaposition in the editing as we see Gideon standing in front of Scott, which
causes the audience to compare characters and they're weaponry, physical
strength and their posture on which shows their preparedness to fight.
The only transitioning in this
clip is "cut" transitioning, as the action sequences are spliced
together quite rapidly as the clip is an action sequence and fade transitioning
would ruin the effect of the movies action.
The soundtrack is diegetic as
it's played from the band members in the film. All the films cuts are edited
with the music from the film, for example, 0:25 to 0:40 the band plays and all
cuts are to the song.
The films cuts are slow when
the non-diegetic slow soundtrack is playing when Scott is
talking to Knives and Ramona at around 1:05 to 1:30. This is then changed when
it's found out that Gideon is still alive and the fast cuts return when Scott
jumps down in front of him.
From 1:48 to 3:00 the cuts are
extremely fast as the action is going on, with the soundtrack now being
fully non-diegetic as it is replicating music from the 8-bit
era of video gaming. Between 3:05 and 3:15 the music is slowed down and the
cuts and fast paced action is slow and dramatic, and slightly suspenseful
before Ramona attacks Gideon and he kicks her down the stairs between 3:15 and
3:20, these cuts aren't as short as action sequence shots but shorter than the
dramatic and slow sequences. Between 3:20 and 4:00 another action sequence
plays, with some of the fastest shots in this scene, with many cuts and edits.
Between 4:00 and 5:18 minutes,
the shots are slowed down once again, with some of the longer shots in the
scene taking place here. This is where Gideon is taunting Scott but knowing he
has lost. Scott kicks him in the head and he explodes into millions of coins
and the coins falling from the ceiling makes for a long running shot in slow
motion, where we see Scott and Knives in wonder of their victory.
There are a few
shot-reverse-shot in the film, primarily in the scenes where Gideon is taunting
Scott. Like when he's lower down on the steps and he's talking up at Scott at
1:33. Also when Scott is talking to Ramona and Knives
and apologising to them (1:10)
In conclusion, Scott Pilgrim -
Scott VS Gideon (Round 2) has some of the most fast paced cuts and edits in the
movie and in the film industry. It is known as one of the most underrated
action movies and this scene shows how great the film really is, at least, from
a filmmaker and media student perspective. The film follows common editing
conventions such as "cut to soundtrack" and the fast-paced action of
jump cuts in such a way that it captivates the audience from both an editing
perspective and an action perspective.
The documentary was about the film industry and their transition from celluloid to digital. It begins with showing how the editing of film changed from literally cutting and splicing the film together to how they digitise the celluloid and edit from a computer. It then discussed how the filming process itself changed, with filming beginning the process of becoming digital rather than celluloid as the pick up frames one-by-one and the pictures quality is based on the resolution of the image. It finally talked about the projection of digital, as instead of a worker winding a film through a projector, cinemas can make more money as they can play the film whenever they want to, no limitations other than their own opening and closing times and the screens already occupied.
I learnt many things about how celluloid was used, edited and projected. But I also learnt many facts about the digital side of the industry to. I was pleasantly surprised to learn that many directors and cinematographers and other factors in the film industry who have been a part of it since before digital became the next big thing are actually welcoming the new age of digital, and that they understand George Lucas' point of saying celluloid has gotten to the best it will ever be, and digital is at it's lowest so we have to make the jump from one technology to the next. I also learnt about a new job role in the industry which are colourists, they used to change the colour of the film itself but now they can use digital to change certain parts of the image and keep other parts the same colour as the image eg. Making everything red in the image but leave the sky blue.
