Task 3 - From Analogue to Digital Editing

From Analogue to Digital Editing

Analogue editing is the cutting together of pieces of celluloid film. Films are made up images printed on to acetate negatives. These are "spliced" together to form a reel of film. These are then fed through a projector at a constant speed of 24 frames which makes the pictures appear to be moving. This is known as analogue.

The first Moviola; before wide-spread use of non-linear editing systems, the initial editing of all film was done with a positive copy of the film negative called a film work print. (Cutting and copy in the UK) by physically cutting and pasting pieces of film, using a splicer and threading the film on a machine with a viewer such as a Moviola.

Before digital technologies became available, magnetic tapes were used to store information. These are known as video tapes. Most video editing has been superseded by digital
editing which is faster and cheaper.

Digital media is a form of electronic media where data is stored in digital, as apposed to analogue, form. Digital editing is the use of computers to order and manipulate this digital data.

Digital cinema uses bits and bytes (strings of 1's and 0's) to record, transmit, and reply images, instead of chemicals on a film. The whole process is electronic so there is no printing or 'splicing' involved.

Non-linear editing is a method that allows you to access any frame in a digital video clip regardless of the sequence in the clip. The freedom to access any frame and use a cut and paste method similar to the ease of cutting and pasting text in a word processor, and allows you to easily include fades, transitions, and other effects that cannot be achieved with linear editing.

Task 2 - Developing Editing Techniques

In-camera editing

In-camera editing is a technique where instead of editing the shots in a film into sequence after shooting the scenes, the cinematographer shoots the sequences in certain order and does not edit it after shooting.

George Melies made "The Vanishing Lady" in 1886, using a technique known as in-camera setting. This means that he cut and stuck scenes together to show an effect as if the lady in the video has vanished. At this point in time, the audience would be very shocked because they had never seen anything like this before. There were queries that the film maker turned his camera off and switched it back on after.

Firstly, I had to decide what we were going to do in the video. In this case, we did two girls walking down the stairs, then I got tripped over and fell against the wall. Then my pier, Jade, was evil and laughed. At the end I died and Jade and my other pier, Kayley, started laughing and left me on the floor. The first thing I thought about was where we were going to film it and what angles we were going to use to film it. As well as acting in this film, I had to help to direct it too. What i did well was the acting, I was able to over react because it was an exaggerated film, and it was quite funny too. Also, i was able to help out with where the camera was set when filming. Personally, i didn't find anything in this task difficult. It was quite straight forward. There were a few mistakes in this video, for example; the camera jolting at some points. Other than this, the video ran smoothly. The effects used was the black and white effect. This was very effective as it showed that the film was old fashioned.

Pros and cons of In Camera editing;
The pros of In Camera editing is that it is quick and easy because you just film it, pause it, then carry on filming in one go. The cons of In Camera editing is that you only have one shot at doing it, and if you go wrong then you have to start all over again.