Throughout the course of media I have learnt many different things that have helped further my knowledge and benefit me for editing our final thriller. Firstly, I have learnt about different camera angles such as close up, mid shot, establishing shot, tracking and panning etc.
After learning about all these individual shots, I have come to find that they all mean different things for instance; a close up shot symbolises a persons expression or emotion it allows the audience to interpret what that character is feeling, another example is an establishing shot which lets the audience know where the movie or programme is taking place.
Moving on, when it came to begin our thriller openings we were taught on how to use Final Cut Pro and Sound Track Pro. Final Cut Pro is a simple editing software that will allow you to cut, add transitions, insert titles and change the filtering of clips. My experience after using Final Cut Pro was that although it was difficult at first it became easier and familiar after I had used it over and over again. From using Final Cut Pro I have learnt how to edit clips to make them flow better and add different effects, for instance as we were making a thriller we often added a "negative" effect to make everything look dark and gloomy. On the other hand, Sound Track Pro is basically the music editing software where you can create your own melodies and transform them into actual songs. Sound Track Pro has allowed me to learn how to loop music, fade them in and out and also to split sounds, other than learning how to edit sound I also learnt that you can search a type of sound effect you want and add it into your video clip, which you have to export so that it can fit into Sound Track Pro.
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| Here are a few examples of a close up shot, mid shot and establishing shot |
After learning about all these individual shots, I have come to find that they all mean different things for instance; a close up shot symbolises a persons expression or emotion it allows the audience to interpret what that character is feeling, another example is an establishing shot which lets the audience know where the movie or programme is taking place.
Secondly, we then began learning about how intertextuality has been used in different movies whereby certain parts have been borrowed and referenced from previous films. Intertextuality can be seen in the movies The Stepfather (2009), What Lies Beneath (2001) and Fatal Attraction (1987) all these movies in some way or another have referenced the 1960 movie Psycho, in terms of using the same bath scene where a person gets attacked by another character using the same weapon and mise en scene. Beneath is a clip of Psycho and Fatal Attraction which will allow you to see the the similarities:
Moving on, when it came to begin our thriller openings we were taught on how to use Final Cut Pro and Sound Track Pro. Final Cut Pro is a simple editing software that will allow you to cut, add transitions, insert titles and change the filtering of clips. My experience after using Final Cut Pro was that although it was difficult at first it became easier and familiar after I had used it over and over again. From using Final Cut Pro I have learnt how to edit clips to make them flow better and add different effects, for instance as we were making a thriller we often added a "negative" effect to make everything look dark and gloomy. On the other hand, Sound Track Pro is basically the music editing software where you can create your own melodies and transform them into actual songs. Sound Track Pro has allowed me to learn how to loop music, fade them in and out and also to split sounds, other than learning how to edit sound I also learnt that you can search a type of sound effect you want and add it into your video clip, which you have to export so that it can fit into Sound Track Pro.
Other than learning how to use software's, I had to also learn about more practical things like how to use a camcorder and tri- pod. From one of our group blogs you will see that we have blogged about how to use a camcorder and tri-pod, which helped me remember all the different buttons to press at certain times. My experience of using a camcorder was relatively quite easy, the buttons became familiar to me and I have learnt what buttons must be used during different occasions, for example the ND filter button should be used when there is too much light in the clip, this button will absorb the light so that the clip appears to look clearer. Whereas using the tri-pod was quite tricky having to make sure that it was always on levelled ground, despite this everything else about using the tri- pod became easier within time. Overall, I have learnt a lot from media studies and hope to learn more in the nearer future.
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