There are hundreds of different jobs in the television and film industry that exist today. Many people are needed to create a film or video, some people have very small parts in making the film while others have very large and important parts. Video editors hold a very important job in creating a finished a film or video. By sorting through footage, picking effective scenes, and sequencing the scenes in an effective manner; the video editor helps to create a well done final product. JOB DESCRIPTION Anywhere from websites, commercials, television shows, to Hollywood movies; video editors, who are also called film editors, are needed. When a film is being made, tons of “raw footage” (“Complete the Illusion with a Video Editing Career”) is the outcome. This is where the video editor comes in, it is their job to go through this “raw footage” daily and decide which scenes are the best scenes to use for the film and what scenes should be thrown away or deleted. The scenes that are chosen to be thrown away include ones where the angle of the camera wasn’t what the director liked or where the actors may have made any mistakes. When sorting through various scenes, it is important for video editors to, “select scenes based on their dramatic and entertainment value and contribution to story continuity” (Dannenfeldt). Selecting entertaining scenes will keep the audience interested and will also help them to understand the film better. After selecting various scenes and shots, the film editor’s next responsibility is assembling them and sequencing them in a logical and effective manner. Once this editing is finished “each scene should segue into the next flawlessly” (“Complete the Illusion with a Video Editing Career”). Once scenes ar... ... middle of paper ... ...hink that a video editing career is really exciting and a really awarding job at times aside from the sometimes unwanted travel and long lonely hours of working. Because who knows, maybe one day that will be you editing the new biggest movie of the year. Works Cited “Complete the illusion With a Video Editing Career.” TheArtCareerProject.com. The Art Career Project. 2013. Web. 8 Dec. 2013 Dannenfeldt, Diane “What Does a Film Editor Do?” entertainment.howstuffworks.com Discovery Company 2013. Web. 8 Dec. 2013 “Editor.”Creativeskillset.org. Creative Skill Set 2013. Web. 12 Dec. 2013 Morkes, Andrew., ed. Carol Yehling and Anne Paterson ed. Careers in Focus. Broadcasting Chicago:Ferguson’s publishing company 2001. Print. Reed, Maxine K. and Robert M. Reed Career Opportunities in Televison, Cable, Video, and Multimedia. New York: Facts on File 1999. Print.
In order for a film to be successful many different elements must be taken into consideration even before beginning to shoot. The tone of the piece, what sort of lighting will be used, the location of the shots, and a palette for the film, are all elements that need to be considered before the actual filmmaking begins. However, even with rigorous planning, questions will still arise during shooting, questions that might not even be apparent or answered until the footage reaches the editing room. However, many shortcomings in shooting can be solved through editing. In fact, with good editing pretty much any type of footage can be made into a working piece of art. But good editing is not an easy task. There are many aesthetic factors that need to be taken into consideration such as shot size, mass, movement on screen, and music, in order to keep a film cohesive and interesting. These elements will work together to inform not only the mood of the piece but also the meaning behind it. Editing can make or break a film. In Terry Zwigoff's film Ghost World, it does both, as attention to detail and sometimes lack there of, both strengthens and weakens the film as a whole.
Classical Hollywood Cinema is a chain of events that has a cause – effect relationship within a time and space. The environment looks realistic and believable to the viewers because the style is predictable, and the time is linear throughout the film. Each scene with the development of the plot and story is motivated by cause and effect. The filmmaking process involves four major steps that cut across the board. The process revolves around these levels that make it orderly to every individual involved in filming. The process has the following stages: Idea and Development, Pre-Production, Production and Post- Production. In Idea and Development it is normally
Editing is often something overlooked when watching a movie, but it is definitely a huge part of the production process. Two different pieces that portray editing very well are Katy Perry’s Rise music video, and the silent comedy film, Sherlock Jr. by Buster Keaton. The main idea of editing is to create either continuity where it flows nicely, or discontinuity so it’s very obvious there was a change. Each video being discussed has displays of both forms of editing.
...high angle shots, two or three shots, and close ups establish the mood and relationship between the characters. Whether the sound was orchestral or pop music, it had a significant value to the plot, sequences, and shots of the story. In the case of movie shots, editing had a significant value to the film in order to help identify characters importance to the plot of a story.
There a few things that one needs to consider before choosing to pursue a career in audio engineering. A recording engineer often has to work long, irregular hours. An engineer must also be able to work well under extreme pressure. It also helps if the engineer has a good musical ear, as well as an appreciation of music. Naturally, it helps to be fairly adept technically and electronically. If you feel like this is you, and you can handle working for a long time without reward (hopefully not too long), then a career in audio engineering could be for you.
Montage is from the beginning of the twenties characterized as a process of synthesis, building something new and in terms of the physical planes also something quite simple. Most montage’s films were created as a dialectical process, where initially from a two meanings of consecutive shots form a third meaning.
With this short but very interesting and informative class I have just scratched the surface of the what it takes to make a full fleged film. It takes much more than I had presumed to make a movie in Hollywood. The number of people that it takes to make a minute of a movie let alone the entire movie was astonishing to me. There are many things that it takes to start making a movie but without an idea of some sort there is no movie to be made.
Films are created to tell a story, to tell an effective story a broad range of techniques needs to be used in a successful way (Brown, 2012.) The ‘Two Pills’ scene from the film The Matrix (1999) uses these techniques in a way that creates a strong representation of the characters and storyline. The techniques used include cinematography, the soundtrack and the editing. In addition, mise-en-scéne is used to enhance the narrative through dialogue, costume, setting and lighting to create a highly emotional reaction from the audience.
To understand the subjective ideation of film scripting, one has to consider the various possibilities of changing a section of a scene. There are innumerable po...
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...have already begun to see – more as a means to playful firing visual fascination. The opposition of realistic film visual culture and non-narrative montage tradition has begun to breakdown. It is leading towards hybridization of realistic and stylized editing. Thus at one extreme there is a montage phenomenon of music video and on the other hand the editing technique of traditional cinema comes together. Montage is no longer a dominant aesthetic according to the new computer culture, as it was throughout the twentieth century, from the avant-garde of the 1920s up until postmodernism of the 1980s. New editing techniques like composting has emerged which combines different spaces into a single environment seamlessly creating a virtual space. Compositing is an example of the alternative aesthetics of continuity and it is considered counterpart of montage aesthetics.
Filmmaking is an art like no other. It brings people together to create magnificent stories that people can view either on their television or on the big screen. The creators of film could not have imagined how far filmmaking would go and how much it would impact the world of entertainment. The invention of filmmaking has evolved over a long period of time and will continue to impact the world of entertainment.
Film editing by definition is part of the creative postproduction process of filmmaking. In today’s modern world, film has made use of advanced digital technology to help with the editing. The editor or editors are usually given a complete compilation of all the footage. These various separate shots that can be regarded as ‘ raw’ footage. Their task is to create a finished motion picture through combining and selecting shots and putting them into a coherent sequence of events. Whenever we are viewing a film it is extremely difficult to consciously perceive all the editing that has been undertaken. Every single time there is a change from one image to another, this is an edit. For editors, it could be a possible annoyance or perhaps a blessing that critics and the audience never specifically point out the editor’s contribution. However it must be noted that film editors aren’t the only ones that will contribute to a films editing.
Offering the unique ability to visually and audibly convey a story, films remain a cornerstone in modern society. Combined with a viewer’s desire to escape the everyday parameters of life, and the excitement of enthralling themselves deep into another world, many people enjoy what films stand to offer. With the rising popularity of films across the world, the amount of film makers increases every day. Many technological innovations mark the advancement of film making, but the essential process remains the same. Pre-production accounts for everything taken place before any shooting occurs, followed by the actual production of the film, post-production will then consist of piecing the film together, and finally the film must reach an audience. Each step of this process contributes to the final product, and does so in a unique right. The process of film making will now start chronologically, stemming from the idea of the story, producing that story into a film, editing that footage together, and finally delivering that story to its viewers.
Secondly, as with actors bringing characters to life, a movie needs a dominant director to bring it to life. Generally, the role of the director is to set or put in the scenes of the film. In order to make the film distinguished, a powerful director is able to combine skillfully the elements or features that make up a scene. This includes the action, composition, sets and props, lighting, costumes, and make up. These things can be said ...