To start off I opened Adobe Premiere Pro to create a new project. I then clicked on file and went down to import so I could import clips to add to my project.
Once I clicked import I then went onto the D Drive to get my clips. I then selected the clips I want and then pressed open.
This is all my clips went once I imported them. This gives me access to the clips and allows me to drag them onto the timeline so I can edit them.
Once I edited all of the clips I imported they then went onto the timeline at the bottom and my Adobe Premier Pro Project was complete.
There are many different purposes when it comes to editing. Including telling a story, creating a mood or an atmosphere and they all lead to a successful video/film.
Eadweard Muybridge was born on the 9th of April 1830. He was a well-known English photographer, important for his pioneering work in photographic studies of motion, and early work in motion-picture projection. He was best known for 'Sallie Gardner at a Gallop'. The image consists of 24 photographs shot in rapid succession that were shown on a zoopraxiscope.
Thomas Edison was born on February the 11th. He was an American inventor and businessman. He developed many devices that greatly influenced life around the world, including the phonograph, the motion picture camera, and a long-lasting, practical electric light bulb. He is also known for executing an elephant, Edison was not present at the time and it is unclear as to the input he had in the execution or even its filming.
In 1895 the Lumiere Brothers invented Cinematographe. This was a 3 in 1 device that recorded, captured and projected motion picture. The cinematographe weighed only 16 lbs., which was easier for transportation and placement. As well, the cinematographe was manually operated by a hand-crank, unlike Edison's ellectrically powered camera, which wasn't good when it came to moving it around. In 1897, the Lumieres added more things to their invention by using a glass flask of water as the condenser to concentrate the light onto the film frame to absorb the heat. This was also used as a saftey feature, as the light would no longer focus on the flammable film if the glass were to break during overheating or by accident. The cinematographe was very popular towards people all over the world. The brothers too their machine all around the world, even as far India and China and it was enjoyed by people of all classes and social standings.
Edwin S. Porter was an American early film pioneer. He was famous as a director with Edison Manufacturing Company. Even though the Lumiere brothers had a great invention, Edwin S. Porter came along and showed the world that film didn't have to be one long still in 1901. Porter also used footage to tell a different story unrelated to what the footage was originally meant to portray. The most well known film created by Edwin S. Porter was The Great Train Robbery which was released in 1903. The film had a running time of 12 minutes and was assembled in 20 separate shots, alng with a close up of a bandit firing at the camera. It used up to 10 different indoor and outdoor locations and was thought to be groundbreaking in its use of cross cuttig in editing to show simultaneous action in different places. There was no earlier film that had created such swift moment or variety of scene. This movie was massively popular. For many years it toured around the United States and in 1905 it was the premier attraction at the first nickelodeon.
D.W Griffith started out as a playwriter. in 1907, he went to New York City and attempted to sell a script to Edison Studios producer Edwin S. Porter. However, Porter rejected Griffith's script, but gave him an acting role in the film Rescued from an Eagle's Nest. After starring in this film, Griffith explored the motion picture buisness. In 1908, D.W Griffiths film For Love of Gold featured the fist ever continuity cut when a scene cut. Griffiths then noticed that emotions could also be portrayed through different kind of camera angles and pace of editing and it wasn't all down to the actors. He was given credit for the narrative of a film, the discovery of a close up and the production of the first ever American feature film. Griffth is best known for his film The Birth of a Nation which is based on the novel The Clansman. The film was released in 1915 and the film included camera techniques inclusing things such as: iris effect, still shots, panoramic long shots, panning shots and cross cutting. These techniques are still used widely today to create films.
The Kuleshov Effect is a filming editing effect which was demonstrated by the Russian filmmaker Lev Kuleshov in the 1910/20s. It was a mental phenomenon. Kuleshov edited together a short film where a shot of the expressionless face of Tsarist matinee idol Ivan Mosjoukine was changed with various other shots, for example: a plate of soup, a woman on a divan and a girl in a coffin. The film was shown to an audience who believed that the expression on Mosjoukine's face was different each time he appeared. Kuleshov used the experiment to indicate the effectiveness and usefulness of film editing.
In digital Video editing, non-linear editing (NLE) is a method which gives you access to any frame in a digital video clip regardless of the sequence in the clip. It gives you the freedom to access any frame, and use a cut and paste method which is similar to the ease of cuttng and psting text in a word processor. It also allowed you to easily add effects to the film such as fading, transitions and other effects that can't be achieved with linear editing.
The first NLE was introduced in 1971. It was used to record and play back black ad white analog video recorded in skip field mode.
The term non linear editing was formalised in 1991. Computer processing was advanced by the end of the 80s to enable true digital imagery and it has progressed today to provide capability in personal desktop computers.
Analogue Editing was used before editing on a computer. When the film negative was completed, it was cut down and pasted into an order. It then went through a machine such as a Moviola or K.E.M. With analogue editing it had to be fed through a machine, this shows how much editing techniques has changed over the years and how it can all be done on a computer today.
Digital Editing has been found to be much faster and efficient for film. It is good because there are many different programs that you can use to edit such as: iMovie, Adobe Premier Pro and Final CutPro. The footage you are wanting to edit is put onto a timeline and it then cut and pasted into an order and then after the effects are added.
The purpose of editing allows there to be a narrative of time with the correct ue of camera angles, pace and narrative structure. It also allows the film to slow so it makes the audience interested by what they're seeing on the screen.
While editing was being tested n the early 1900s the film producers and directors realised they need to create their films in a different way to get people to enjoy them.
Techniques of editing include transitions. These transitions are things such as: cuts, jump cuts, washout and fades. All of these editing techniques have an important role within editing as the cuts allow the film to move at a quick pace so that the film with stay interesting to the audience.
An important convention of editing would be the 180 degree rule. It's important that you follow the rule because the viewer may become confused as where the shot is being filmed and it can sometimes be irritating. The rule is that you use a 180 degree line as a placement for the camera and you can't move past the 180 degrees because this causes confusion for the viewer and you will be able to see the other cameras in shot.
Jump Cuts can add a sense of speed to the sequence of events. A jump cut it where a cut where two shots of the same subject are taken from positions of the camera that vary only slightly. This edit gives the effect of jumping forwards in time. This kind of cut communicates the passing of tie as opposed to the more seamless dissolve. Continuity editing uses guidelines called the 30 degree rule which avoids jump cuts.
The purpose of continuity editing is to smooth over the inherent discontinuity of the editing process and to establish a logical coherence between shots.
Continuity editing can be split into two different catogories, these are temporal and spatial. In each category there are specific techniques that can cause a passage to be continuous, this is giving the viewer a concrete narration to follow.
Cuts and dissolves are used differently. Dissolves typically have a duration of 1 to 2 seconds, however, this may vary due to the preference of the director and editor. Dissolves can be used to soften a hard cut which may startle the viewer,they be also be used instead of a jump cut.This kind of editing technique is most common in classic cinema and they are now less often used. In non linear video editing, a dssolve is done by using software by inserting gradually between the RGB of each pixel of the image.
A Shot Reverse Shot is used when one character is shown looking/talking towards another character and then the other character is shown looking/talking back. Because the characters are shown facing opposite directions, the viewer assumes that they are looking at eachother. The purpose of this editing technique is to help the viewer understand better when characters are having conversations with other characters and it will also help the viewers see the expressions on both characters faces at the same time during the conversation and see the expressions of one character while the other is talking.
When you cut your clips to a soundtrack, it is where the cuts are influenced by the style of the music that is heard in the bacground. This is occasionally done in films maybe in a montage sequence. For example, when a fast pace/action scene is happening in a film, the music will be a fast and an upbeat song and if the scene is sad a slow song will be heard. This will attract the attention of the audience because if it is a fast pace it will get you interested into what it will cut to next.
