Learning How to Edit

So far we've had two lessons on editing. The lessons' goal was to make the students realize how powerful and crucial editing is to a movie. How through editing, you can change the audience's view completely of the movie or clip.

In our first class we edited our prelim task, where two people from our group would act a simple scene and the rest would focus on the camera angles and movements. We filmed the scenes in various different angles and then put it all together however we wanted in editing. For example, we chose to start with a camera tilt upwards presenting the character who was sitting down at the sofa. But we could have started with the establishing shot of the room. It just made more sense to start with that "revealing" shot of her sitting down on the sofa.

In our second editing class we learned about the actual power of editing. We had an exercise to completely change the scene order. Basically completely messing up our scene and see what results we get. We basically did a kind of a remix looping the same section over and over again and at the end, dropping a tune. This shows that through editing we were able to create something completely different from what we had at first.