Scene 34

The students at Staffordshire University were given the task of editing together a scene from a film following a on set script which had been marked. Here is what one student edited together for Scene 34.

• Throughout the film there are issues with the sound as it changes from the boom which followed the woman and the one which followed the man as they picked up different levels of background audio. To tackle this the edit required a wild track adding below the sound which would enhance the entire piece significantly. 
• The shots chosen through the middle of the film are blurry, if this was tackled again the student should unlink the sound to the footage and then chose the best footage to use rather than swapping lots of blurry footage which will both confuse and aggravate the audience.
• The editor used the shot of the couple walking down the beach within the scene over the lines where the woman is asking the man whether he has any ambitions, this reflects to the audience that the woman is thinking about that ideal world and adds to the context of the situation as it has just been revealed that the man is an escort. 
• The majority of the footage is following what the woman does within the scene, this is to establish that she is the main character and to build a relationship between the audience and the character.

This film was edited within the Adobe Premiere Pro Suite. 

Scene 37

Following on from Scene 34 students were asked to edit Scene 37. This edit took a more clear approach using the cut in motion technique when editing in the over the shoulder shot of the other woman. There was also use of reaction shots by Katherine when she is talking to the man in the scene this as with in scene 34 enabled that extra emotional tie between the audience and Katherine.

Move - STA Travel Australia

Today the students at Staffordshire were taught about how edits can be used to move location. The students were shown the video "Move - STA Travel Australia". The video shows how you can use cut in motion to move the story along and how much of the scene you can change without it ruining the pace. The audience mainly focus on the face of the man, by this staying in the same place in each of the shots it keeps the continuity through the video even though the location and the clothes change it still impacts on the audience.

Another example of this type of effect is through the video created by Save The Children, a charity organisation which made a video to support children affected in Syria. The video shows a young girl for a few seconds per day for a year and the audience see how her life changes from being stereotypically normal to being in a living hell in the Syrian War.

Both these films display the editing technique of cutting in motions and using match cuts which allows for easy transition between locations.

Surfing Edit 2

After the students had completed their first edit of the man surfing, they were then given the opportunity to re-edit their piece of footage using a soundtrack of their choice. One student used the soundtrack "Otherworld" by Nobuo Uematsu. Below is the film they submitted and points of what was achieved and could be improved within the piece.

• The film is edited to the beat of the song and this increases the pace of the film. It also aids the flow of the film as the shot changes every time the loud guitar starts. IF the editor was to film this again, it would enhance the edit if the part where the man is jumping has some stronger music behind it as at that point the music goes sombre again.
• Comparing this piece with the first edit, there is more use of angles and with the variety it enables quicker cuts which don't feel as repetitive as the first attempt the editor did with this task. 
• A strength of this film is that the continuity is much more seamless then in the first attempt by the editor, although there could have been a higher usage of cut in motion where the editor would edit two shots where the man was in the same position from different angles, this would have added extra cuts to increase the pace.
• The pace of this film faster than the previous edit, but it still lacks the pace required for the context of the film. To make this film better it would require being edited with a faster pace.

This film was edited in the Adobe Premiere Pro suite. 

The Call

Students at Staffordshire University on the BSc Film Production Technology course were tasked to work in groups of 4 to create a 5 minutes short film which is based on a script taken from an Australian script writing website. Below is the final render of the film.

• Student learnt that they need to record better sound as there were issues with the sound throughout this film.
• There were issues with continuity and the editing was very slow paced which led to the film feeling quite boring. To combat this the editor required a larger variety of footage and to edit much more frequent throughout the film. 
• The editing only seems to go with the footage, it doesn't create emotion or a feel for the audience it just imply shows what is happening. If the editor was to do this again then they should add more shots and move to create emotion and create tension rather than just seeing the action. 
• Overall this film tells the narrative well and the edit is very stylish but the pace of the film is quite slow and by tweaking it could have enhance the film by a vast amount.

This film was edited on AVID Media Composer 6.0.