Assignment: Short Film Project

What you have to do

Task Assessment Evidence Assessment Focus

TASK 2: Development of Film Editing

a) A study of the development of editing from the very earliest films by the Lumiere brothers and Meliez, the early experimentalists such as Griffiths and Eisenstein, Vertov and to the mid-twentieth century Scorcese & Kubrik, and Goddard to current practitioners in Music Videos, Documentary and TV Drama. You will compare examples from fiction, non-fiction and advertising. However, they may be well advised to concentrate on one form for the practical elements of the unit.

1. Class Timeline on the Development of editing with commentary and video/image examples (Timeglider)

2. Learners will produce a video on their blog about editing (using a mixture of stock footage, images and audio commentary) You will describe:

the principles of editing http://www.slideshare.net/phele1512/principles-and-purposes-of-editing-presentation

the purposes of editing how editing has developed over time

http://www.slideshare.net/katierothery/history-of-editing https://youtu.be/Xr-N3fSo62w https://youtu.be/6uahjH2cspk

b) You will source mix of archive and practical captured examples of editing conventions and techniques seamless; continuity; motivated; montage; jump-cutting; parallel editing; 180o rule; splicing; transitions, eg cut, dissolve, fade, wipe; cutaways; point of view shot; shot-reverse-shot; providing and withholding information; editing rhythm; crosscutting; cutting to soundtrack

1. Editing Techniques practical video 2. Annotation explaining the purpose and uses of each

https://youtu.be/FinhQb3jiAs https://youtu.be/7LXQg6t4q2A

Grading Criteria:Unit 22: P1/M1/D1

PLTS:Independent enquirers:planning and carrying out research into existing single camera productionsFunctional Skills:ICT:Select and use a variety of sources of information independently for a complex task English:reviewing literature and websites to find examples of short films

c) Edit a given Short Film from previous L3 Btec footage Import, Organise footage, Editing Logs, Rough Cut, Sound, and evaluation of decisions with screen captures

and to find out about the uses, characteristics andtechnology

Key Terms that you should be using in your work:

Development: in-camera editing; following the action; multiple points of view; shot variation; manipulation of diegetic time and space; film, video; analogue; digital

Purposes: storytelling, eg engaging the viewer, development of drama, relationship to genre, creating motivation; combining shots into sequences; creating pace

Conventions and techniques: seamless; continuity; motivated; montage; jump-cutting; parallel editing; 180o rule; splicing; transitions, eg cut, dissolve, fade, wipe; cutaways; point of view shot; shot-reverse-shot; providing and withholding information; editing rhythm; crosscutting; cutting to soundtrack