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AVP EDITING INTRO 1
IT IS VERY
HIGHLY RECOMMENDED
AND VERY, VERY
STRONGLY SUGGESTED
THAT YOU TAKES NOTES
AND PAY ATTENTION!
IT IS VERY
HIGHLY RECOMMENDED
AND VERY, VERY
STRONGLY SUGGESTED
THAT YOU TAKES NOTES
AND PAY ATTENTION!
YOU WILL SEE
THIS MATERIAL
AGAIN!
YOU WILL SEE
THIS MATERIAL
AGAIN!
Because most of us watch so
much television and see so
many movies, we tend to have
fairly high standards when we
watch anything on video. We
now expect the following
features in almost everything
we watch…
1. A title at the beginning
2. A set of "shots" cut
together in a nice way to
tell a story
A shot is a specific subject
filmed from a specific angle.
For example, if you are telling the
story of a kid’s birthday party,
different shots from the event
might include…
a shot of the cake
a shot of the presents before they
are opened
a shot of the all the kids at the party
sitting at the table
a shot of the kid blowing out the
candles a shot of the kid unwrapping a
present
3. A fairly high number of
shots
If you watch any regular TV show, you
will see that it is rare for the camera
angle to stay the same for more that
10 or 15 seconds. The director will cut
between different angles to keep
things interesting or to make different
points.
For example, the screen might show a
man's face while he's talking for five
seconds, and then switch to a shot of
his hands holding a tissue (while the
sound track continues uninterrupted
with him talking) to show the emotion.
4. Interesting transitions
between the shots
For example, some shots might fade
into others, some might spin into
others, and some cut very simply from
one to another in a quick chain.
5. A decent soundtrack, often
involving narration and/or
background music
6. Perhaps static shots (like a
chart or graph) mixed in
with the normal video
7. Titles or legends on some
of the shots to identify
people, places and things
8. Slow motion or fast motion
to change the tempo
Even if you are trying to
present something as simple
as your family trip to the zoo, it
is nice to include as many of
these features as possible in
your rendition of it.
The more features you add,
the more professional your
work looks and the more
attractive it is to your
audience.
The trick is to make it look and
sound natural, to try to keep it
simple, to know when enough
is enough, and when less is
more.
So what exactly is editing?
Editing is commonly defined
as collecting, preparing, and
arranging materials for
publication.
It may also mean to revise or
correct and eliminate or omit.
Those definitions are just as
valid in the world of film and
video.
The term editing, when
talking about video or film is
often used in two slightly
different ways.
Sometimes it refers to the
process of selecting and
re-recording just the good
footage, eliminating the bad.
Sometimes the term is used
for the whole
post-production process,
including titling, effects, etc.
OK, so what is it?
Editing (in video or film) is the
process of collecting,
arranging, and bringing
materials together to tell a
story using pictures and
sounds.
The word materials should be
understood as video footage,
photographs, illustrations,
animations, title graphics,
sound, music, or anything else
you can incorporate into the
finished product.
For lack of a better word, you
can use the word show to
describe the finished product.
This is because when you're
done, the first thing you'll want
to do is show the results of your
hard work to someone else.
The ultimate goal of editing
is to tell stories.
Writers use words and
sentences to craft stories;
editors use pictures and
sounds.
Joining shots together is
fundamental to editing.
At its most basic video or
film editing is changing from
one picture or scene to
another.
In one of the oddities that
persists in the film and
video industry, the simplest
way to join two shots
together is to cut from one
shot to another.
It's called a cut because film
editors once had to cut and
splice together strands of
film to join two shots.
Why is it called a cut?
There are a number of different
ways to do video editing. You
can buy a complete solution
from a company like Avid or
Final Cut at the high end, and at
the low end you can use your
camera and a VCR to cut things
together.
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