A very short scene of my final project. I simply wanted to put my time into an idea I had for my final version, a sort of proof of concept edit. It’s a relatively simple edit but I have never done it before and thought it would fit the overall theme of my video rather well.

So here’s a short snippet of my hand at this kind of effect.

For my final project, I got most of my inspiration from a previous students work we have watched in class. The one about one’s own struggles with motivation and inspiration, as I suffer from the same problems. So I thought I would like to take my own spin on this and cover what that struggle is like with me.

I want to make it feel more cinematic and like a sense of self discovery. I have come up with some scripts and screenplays, with the help of ChatGPT, and so far it is looking promising. It is a sort of personal experience I want to tell.

I can post or share my notes I have so far later if anyone is interested in what I’m planning.

Sorry for this being submitted so late

Continuity Video Project

Shameless Blog Post – Framing

The short opening scene for the TV show Shameless we watched in class was a great example of framing shots and continuity editing.

The story being told, mainly through visuals and little dialog was done great by the way shots were framed and edited together. Such as the main scene when the family begins to sit down together for breakfast, right after the Mom of the family notices that a bill is due that day. It is what holds the scene and story together, as its the main plot of the scene. With all characters being introduced have some sort of role in it context of it and it flows between each character well.

The scene starts with the mom seeing the bill reminder while getting the milk out of the fridge for cereal/breakfast. As the milk gets passed around so does a box to collect money from the family for the bill. Both were framed as important items to keep track of and as they are both passed around in unisene, it follows a line. Where they are mostly cut on action points of the item(s) being passed to the next person, a sort of introduction to a new character. As well as a mention of a possible new plot point and or character trait. Such as some being bad with time management or being stressed about other life issues. With some mentioning they can work more in the day to help cover the bill when it gets to them, as they only can fork in a smaller amount of money compared to others. Same for the kids of the family, as they too work to help.

Compositing, Effects, and AI Cinema Blog Post

Star Wars Wars – All Star Wars at Once

Out of all of the given videos or projects, I went with the more so simple or basic of edits. That being the Star Wars Wars website, where it is a s very simple concept of having all of the 6 main Star Wars movies layered on top of each other.

All that it seemed was that each movie was put onto separate layers and the opacity was changed so they could all be seen at once. Or that there was certain masks placed to allow more from one scene to pop through compared to the other.

I simply found it incredibly interesting, how some scenes or shots would pop or show more than others. Mainly that of scenes taken on bright or high contrast colors, such as the scenes on Tatooine or other sandy planets.

These scenes are much more visible than those when in space. It’s an interesting way to really think of the use of color or composition in shots. It just really stood out to me, how the movie is shot and composed can really make a movie stand out. Those shots stood out so much that you could immediately identify which movie it was from.

Montage Assignment

For the scene from Dual I decided to cover the framing/continuity is this scene below, the ending of the movie:

Duel (1971) ending (with roar) – YouTube

The main shots that I want to cover and break down is the first few scenes, cutting between the two cars accelerating towards each other until they crash.

Majority of the shots are comprised of close-ups or medium close-ups, focusing on the main character’s face along with his car with clashing shots of the Truck. While the shots on our protagonists are mostly level with him, the shots of the Truck are taken from a much lower angle. To show just how bigger of a threat and imposing the Truck is. It’s something to be afraid of and show how unfair of a confrontation this is.

There is also more wide shots cut between the close-ups as we get closer to the crash, showing the entire vehicles as they close in. To show their speed and direction, along that 180-degree line. With the shots closing in on the cars when they get closer, more medium close-ups and close-ups. Until they finally do crash and it cuts to a wide shot again. To really show the destruction and fireball caused by their clashing.

As the two flaming cars fly off the cliff it takes much wider shots and long shots to really show the slow chaos of it falling off the cliff. With similar shots to before to really show the destruction and brutality of the scene. Medium close-ups to show the cars breaking and bending and even full close-up shots to show specific details of things breaking.

The scene I decided to deconstruct and examine was the opening scene from the first Pirates of The Caribbean movie. Where the main character, Captain Jack Sparrow, is first introduced on screen.

I’ll first post all shots with a description of what they are then delve into the structure of them.

Here are the shots in order:

The entire opening scene of the movie is a great introduction to the character we will follow throughout the course of the movie and franchise. Without a single word, we understand this character well simply due to the way it is shot and carried out.

Starting with a slow reveal from behind, a low-angled long shot that slowly transitions into a medium close-up shot from behind. Showing us what he sees or what his goal is in the distance.

After that, the same shots are almost repeated, a long/medium shot, this time from the front to a more medium close up shot to show the face of our hero. Here it then quickly cuts to another low angle medium shot of him carrying out a sudden action and into a close-up of him bucketing water out of his boat. This then cuts to a wide shot to show his entire ship, which is rather small, and his frantic actions to keep the water out.

It then abrublty slows down in action to a somber shot of him reacting to some hung pirates, a medium close up shot to show his reaction to this. From here, it carries onto an iconic scene of him once again the top of the mast in an extremely long shot to show this boat is now sinking entirely. Slowly zooming further out to a wider shot to capture the environment he is in and exactly what he will be walking into.

The scene ends up a close-up, not of his face, however. Instead, it is a low-angle close-up of his first steps onto the dock from his now-sunken ship.