questions for work

Step One

1) What is a film script and how do we write it?


2) what is a storyboard and how do we make one


3) what is a script breakdown and what is it used for?


4) what is a film budget and how do we make one?


5) what is a risk assessment and how do we do one for a film?


6) what contracts and clearances do we use for a short film?


7) how do we use a call sheet to manage time on a film?


8) How do we use a script and script breakdown to manage resources on a film?


9) how do we control the budget in a film


10) how do we use the script and storyboard to communicate our ideas

history of editing

Lumiere Brother

this the first video Lumiere Brothers every put on pitcher show for people. Are the one how start the video editing world.

George Melies

This the best video that George Melies mad in his courier. He is the one how mad the jump cut in editing. 

Edwin Porter

this is the video with time cuts that had different time pinkest that the crammer cuts to.

DW Griffith

this DW griffith best video that he mad but it it whys not a fervent to serene people but he rot a scrip to say that his video whys good for all people.

montage history

Kuleshov

Eisenstein

Soviet montage

Dziga vertov

Early in the development of cienam, film makers learned that if shots were put into a certain order, it could tell a story in a different way, allowing for more complex stories to be made. 

Early on the cuts on film were made in the camera,  - the cameras were wound by hand, and the camera man stopped winding the camera when they wanted the scene to stop.

This is the method used in the Great Train Robbery 1903

A master of early movie editing effects was George Melies. In the India Rubber Head (1901) we see a walk towards the camera gives the illusion of zooming in. On top of this Melies has covered up a centre square of the camera, then wound the film back by hand, made a second template to cover yp everything except the centre and filmed again - the result is two sequences of the same actor (Melies himself) appearing in the film a the same time.

In Moscow, editing was developed into a system called montage - to arrange shots to develop a definite theme or scene of pace.

Here is a famous scene from the BattleShip Potemkin (1925) by Sergei Eisenstein of the army opening fire on a crowd:

Trademarks here are cuts to different framed scenes showing close up and different angles to mainntain interest and make the audience feel they were part of the scene. Action is shown by expressions and people running towards the camera to fill the entire screen. Extreme close up cuts are also used.

Eisenstein also realised that short scenes were used to suggest faster pace and action sequences.

However, some actors and directors, such as Buster Keaton believed that long takes showed no special effects and that the action was really happening.

Editing Today

But the past 20 or so years has also seen the rise of "digital editing" (also called nonlinear editing), which makes all kinds of editing easier. Film was first transferred to video and video edits made by copying sections from one tape to another This was not as effective - either in terms of time or quality as cutting through film sections with a razor blade - but video tape was much cheaper than film. When computer based editing began , film could be edited in a non linear way - in other words did not have to be made one edit at a time in the same order of the film. Not only that, but multiple undos meant that editing was not destructive and an edit could be changed or undone. This, together with higher quality than video tape (but not as high film) and the cheaper costs meant that the non linear editing method of digital video editing is the one used almost everywhere in the present day.