5 Master Editing Techniques Analysis

 

This clip conveys contrast, because the student is telling the counselor that he is doing great in his classes, however we use flashbacks that show the exact opposite. The audience sees the student is actually struggling in the classes, but telling the counselor he is doing great which is the contrast technique

I believe we did a great job on parallelism, as this clip utilizes great transitions, as we connected two different scenes visually by matching the elements of the shots. This is done by using the same shot and angle, and only showing the bottom half of the body walking. Each scene is related to eachother until we finally cross paths.

The next editing technique we showed was Leit Motiff, and i believe we did another amazing job on this one. Leit Motiff is the use of a consistent musical theme, camera angle, or a common element and in our clip we used a musical theme. Every time any positive thing happen we would shift the angle of the camera on to me, and i would thumbs up and smile whilst the happy song plays every single time(consistency is very important for this).

The next technique is symbolism, which we did by using an element in the film to do some sort of cut to a different scene.We did this by showing a paper with a very bad grade on it, and zoomed in on it to zoom out of a trash can as a transition to a different scene of me walking away with bad, negative body language. 

The fifth and final technique is Simultaneity, which is the cutting back and forth of two scenes which are happening simultaneously in order to show different point of views of the same occurence. We did this by utilizing a phone call between 2 people, which fits perfectly under simultaneity and we made sure to include both sides of the phone conversation. Although our idea was great, the phone conversation was butchered slightly due to a communication error between our group  however we still managed to use the technique effectively.

Reflective Essay

 In our one word film, i firmly believe we did an amazing job at not only vocalizing our word without the use of words in the film, however we also used effective camera angles at appropriate times. An example of this is when i fell on the floor, with an effective use of a low angle we were able to establish the two girls laughing at me felt dominant, and putting emphasis on how low and vulnerable and embarrassed i was.

After i got up, we switched to a high angle of me(after using a dolly shot) which again emphasized my emotions and paired with an over the shoulder shot and with the panning  

we transition to a low angle of me after i portrayed more positive emotions with my ecstatic body language. The shift to a low angle now tells the audience that although i was embarrassed and felt powerless,  i motivated myself and became more confident and positive

The next scene includes the actor now smiling, and doing pushups to show how worked up he now is. Dylan the side character is MOTIVATING him whilst doing the pushups which helps convey our word. 

He then is seen bumping into a person, however this time due to the exuding of his newly earned confidence and motivation, he bumps the person out the way and noticeably starts to feel himself. 

This is characterized further by his happy dance at the end and the use of our angles throughout this scene. We also utilized a nice over the shoulder perspective and a close up of the impact of the 2 people's shoulders colliding, which shows that this event may be important in delivering a message/ the main idea of our film.