Editing Projects

As part of the BA1 Creating Fiction module during the first year of my Filmmaking degree, I worked with a large group of students to adapt a segment of the screenplay 'In Italia' by Lauren Ward into a short scene.

The screenplay is the story of a young painter who moves to Italy and forms a connection with their neighbour on the other end of a pulley system between their flats. During pre-production we decided we wanted the young painter to instead be inspired by that romantic meeting as it was how their parents first met. Our segment of the scene shows the young painter dancing around her apartment as she dreams about dancing with their parents.

I was present for all of the pre-production, the production, and post-production where we had to work as a group to develope; how we would shoot the scene, the set layout, the lighting, and the choice of music. My main contribution to the production outside of being a second assistant camera was as the editor. The director sat with me and gave me notes while I edited the footage we had shot during a single day's shoot into the final product.

There were a lot of outtakes when filming 'The Game' at the Storyhouse. I selected some of the funniest moments and edited together a Blooper Reel.

Music: Funny Quirky Comedy by Redafs.com, Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License

In my extended project qualification I explored how films employ effects. From my research I concluded that digital effects should be used selectively to supplement the story and not as the entire basis of a film.

Over Lockdown 2020 I edited together a video that teases everything my essay talks about. I created this using a combination of Adobe Premiere Pro to sequence the clips and music, After Effects to create the text, and Photoshop to create any images.

Music: Really Slow Motion - Gender ("Captain America: The Winter Soldier - Trailer 2" Music)

Voiceovers:

• Wren Weichman: Why Most Visual Effects Suck - but some don't, TedxPenn

• Rob Legato: The Art Of Creating Awe, Ted Talk 2012

• Freddie Wong: Why CG Sucks (Except It Doesn't), YouTube

The Netflix show 'DARK' has a mind-bending title intro to each episode with imagery being mirrored to create a Kaleidoscope effect. I wanted to experiment with those effects in Adobe Premiere Pro on my own footage, to create something that matches the style of the show. I used footage that I had recorded myself using an iPhone.

Music: Goodbye (Theme from Dark, A Netflix Original Series) by Apparat

My friends and I wanted to spoof the NBC show's intro using footage of ourselves in place of the main cast. I had to find some tutorials on YouTube to help me create the text animations. Making this was a combination of using Adobe Photoshop and Premier Pro. Overall this is the project I've had the most fun with.

Music: Brooklyn Nine-Nine Main Theme

This is one of the first projects I created in Adobe After Effects. I was inspired by a tutorial I saw on YouTube to create a moving hallway myself. The Design I went with was inspired by the Netflix series 'Stranger Things', set in a high school corridor that transitions into the show's fictional dimension of the 'Upside Down' as a stark contrast.

Music: The Upside Down · Kyle Dixon & Michael Stein