SCULPTING WITH SOUNDS, IMAGES AND WORDS VIDEO EDITING VIDEO TOOLKIT CONTINUITY EDITING: cutting style that maintains a sense of continuous space and time https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6uahjH2cspk&index=22&list=PLrMEncyd64BdPt-iWyxiAdo19tYm7myf1 ~ 13 min VIDEO TOOLKIT importance of the establishing shot editing’s ability to compress time in favor of impact over reality varying the distance between long, medium and close-up shots varying duration pacing through panning and zooming shots VIDEO TOOLKIT TYPES OF VIDEO SHOTS Extreme Long Shot Long Shot Medium Long Shot Medium Shot Medium Close-up Close-up Extreme Close-up from https://www.asu.edu/alti/ltlab/tutorials/video/basics/types.htm https://vimeo.com/blog/category/video-school VIDEO TOOLKIT Extreme Long Shot (ELS / EWS) • Also known as extreme wide shot (EWS). • Covers a wide area. • Shows the whole figure of your subject as well as his surroundings. • Provides context for your scene. VIDEO TOOLKIT Long Shot (LS / FS) • Also known as full shot (FS). • Frames the whole figure of your subject, from the head to the toes. • Places the subject in relation to the environment and the people around it. • The point of the focus is the subject but the environment is also visible. • Shows action rather than emotion. VIDEO TOOLKIT Medium Long Shot (MLS) • Also known as a three-quarters shot. • Frames the whole subject from the knees up. • An intermediate shot between the long shot and the medium shot. • Shows the subject in relation to the surroundings. • May be used when you have 2 or 3 persons in the frame. VIDEO TOOLKIT Medium Shot (MS) • Also known as the waist shot. • Frames the subject from the waist up. • Commonly used in interviews. • Directs the viewer to the subject. VIDEO TOOLKIT Medium Close-up (MCU) • Frames a subject's head and cuts off around mid-chest. • The focus is on the subject. • Reveals only a little of the surroundings. • Shows the facial expressions of the subject. • Commonly used for interviews in documentaries and news programs. VIDEO TOOLKIT Close-up (CU) • Frames a subject's face and cuts off mid- neck, showing the face and entire head. • The subject fills almost the entire frame. • Captures facial expressions and emotions. VIDEO TOOLKIT Extreme Close-up (ECU) • Frames just the person's facial features. • Frames only a portion of the subject. • Shows the person's emotions. VIDEO TOOLKIT CONTINUITY EDITING: cutting style that maintains a sense of continuous space and time https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6uahjH2cspk&index=22&list=PLrMEncyd64BdPt-iWyxiAdo19tYm7myf1 MONTAGE: cutting style that ignores continuous space and time for the benefit of conceptual logic and richness https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JYedfenQ_Mw&list=PLrMEncyd64BdPt-iWyxiAdo19tYm7myf1&index=21 IN THE BLINK OF AN EYE: A PERSPECTIVE ON FILM EDITING BY WALTER MURCH THE RULE OF SIX 1. Emotion (51%) – It is true to the emotion of the moment. 2. Story (22%) – It advances the story. 3. Rhythm (10%) – It occurs at a moment that is rhythmically interesting and ‘right’. 4. Eye-trace (7%) – It acknowledges what you might call ‘eye-trace’ — the concern with the location and movement of the audience’s focus of interest at any one moment. 5. Two-dimensional plane of screen (6%) – It respects ‘planarity’ - the grammar of three dimensions transposed by photography to two (the questions of stage-line) 6. Three-dimensional space of action (4%) – It respects the three-dimensional continuity of the actual space (where people are in the room and in relation to one another). VIDEO TOOLKIT 8 Essential Cuts http://www.premiumbeat.com/blog/8-essential-cuts-every-editor-should-know/ J-Cuts & L-Cuts https://vimeo.com/blog/post/j-cuts-l-cuts Cuts and Transitions 101 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OAH0MoAv2CI VIDEO TOOLKIT CUTS AND TRANSITIONS Cutting on Action Cut Away Cross Cut Jump Cut Match Cut Fade In / Fade out Dissolve Smash Cut Iris Wipe Invisible Cut L-cut and J-cut LEONARDO DALESSANDRI Watchtower of Turkey (2015) 4 min (cutting on action, on sound, in rhythm…) https://vimeo.com/108018156 MATTY BROWN A Colorful Life (2015) 6 min https://vimeo.com/132704505 CHRIS MARKER Cat Listening to Music (1990) 3 min An Owl is an Owl is an Owl (1990) 3 min La jetée (1962) excerpt https://vimeo.com/46620661 FORCED ENTERTAINMENT Complete Works: Table Top Shakespeare (2015) excerpt ~2 min and trailer JÉRÔME BEL Pichet Klunchun and Myself (2005) excerpt ~2 min Disabled Theater[3] with the actors of Theater HORA (2012) excerpt ~4 min.