This week, we began to look at the Editing Process and why it is important. When creating a film, the Editing process can either make or break the film through the way that the story is portrayed. When editing, it is important to listen and communicate with the writer and director to ensure that you create a true representation of the story that you are telling.
On Monday, we began to look at some of the key components needed when editing. These involved Frame Rates, Aspect Ratio, Resolution and Interlaced Frames and Progressive Scans. We studied the definitions, why they are used, and looked at some examples. Frame Rates are the rates at how quickly a moving image is captured. The lower the frame rate per second, the less images captured. Frame Rates can determine how smooth or jumpy a video can look. Aspect Ratio is the size at which the video is being shot and is determined by its width, multiplied by its length. This can be affected by what size screen the video is being shown on originally. For example, if the video is being shown on a small screen, the aspect ratio could be around 4:3. Whereas, if the film is being shown on a wide screen, the aspect ratio could be 2.35:1. Resolution is important when determining the quality of the video footage. The higher the resolution, the better the quality video and vice versa. Common resolutions include, 480p, 720p, and 1080p. Finally, Interlaced Frames are made up of two images put together on the screen, whereas, Progressive Scans are made up of one image on the screen. Progressive Scans are commonly used on flat screen TVs and allow the video to appear smoother and sharper, however, Interlaced Frames were mostly used on older TVs where the video appeared slightly more blurred due to the delay in the two images.
On Tuesday, we started to look at the editing software, Avid. Avid allows us to edit our video footage together and adjust several things, such as colour and audio. We uploaded some video footage that we shot a few weeks ago and learnt the basics of editing this together. After doing so and adjusting some of the settings that we learnt about this week, we exported our video. Overall, I was pleased with the outcome of the edit, however, in the future, I would like to focus more on cutting the video footage more precisely. I think that the tasks this week will help me when editing my footage in the future.
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