Editing & Special Effects

Editing: Learning Quests:

Options:

• Option #1: Select one of the following options to learn more about editing:
  • Watch The Cutting Edge: The Magic of Movie Editing (2004), a documentary created from interviews with filmmakers and examples from famous films. with cinematographers. Available on the additional features DVD of Bullitt (Ms. Kramer owns a copy that lives in the DVD drawer) (total run time: 1:39, warning: some of the scenes cut from major films have some swearing)
  • Read a chapter (or more than one chapter) of one of our editing books Particularly recommended is Walter Murch's The Blink of the Eye.
  • Visit the website of the American Cinema Editor magazine to find a limited number of articles available online: http://www.cinemaeditormagazine.com/ We also have a number of issues of American Cinema Editor magazine in the rack on the column in the editing lab.
  • Rocket Jump Film School's "Cuts and Transitions 101" https://school.rocketjump.com/learn/editing-container/cuts-transitions-101
  • Language of Editing: Basic Cuts: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RzgLbuj6dHM&t=12s
  • Invisible cuts in Birdman: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FthEJGR61c8
  • Look through this short e-book about Editing Techniques, and watch this video about the editing of a scene in Sherlock Holmes: Game of Shadows
    • Edit Like a Pro (27 pages)
    • https://player.vimeo.com/video/138166441
    • https://player.vimeo.com/video/144088898
    • http://www.filmeditingpro.com/3-master-craft/
    • This video created by Lewis Bond of Channel Criswell discusses Editing in Storytelling: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nnXEIlCrEgA (warning: some of the scenes cut from major films have some swearing)
  • A video by "Every Frame a Painting" tells an important truth about editing--its all about the performances: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Q3eITC01Fg
• Option #2: Select one of the following to apply what you know about editing to another's work
• Watch a film and dissect a single scene by storyboarding that scene. An additional option would be to film and edit an approximation of that scene.
  • For each item you produce, please follow the production procedure: plan the production with shot lists or storyboards, film the production, edit the production, reflect on the process, screen, reflect on the product.
• Option #3: Select one of the following to apply what you know about editing to your own work
  • Find a copyright-friendly, pre-written screenplay. Plan, film, and edit a production of this screenplay.
    • For each item you produce, please follow the production procedure: plan the production with shot lists or storyboards, film the production, edit the production, reflect on the process, screen, reflect on the product.