Editing Practice

Banana Phone  

Over the last couple of weeks we had to put into practice what we have learnt about music video filming and editing. We filmed in groups where certain shots were required, these shots were:

1. Filming a person sitting down with the monitor window open and with another camera film the monitor.
2. Depth of field task- Do a distance little and large shot so that someone looks very small in the background and another very large, place an object like a cup or a ball down maybe with grass background - place the camera level with the object quite far away and then zoom into it so the object is sharp but the camera is blurred and place your artist in the background and add various cut out props to the foreground to float around the artist.
3. Reverse Shot- While the artist is singing get them to walk carefully backwards, but to add excitement to the shot add obstacles for jumping over and ball throwing so it can be reversed.
4. Wheelchair / Tripod – we are going to simulate tracking and dolly shots. Camera on wheelchair film artist moving towards you singing to camera one take 30 seconds.
5. Tripod shot – raise the front leg of the tripod so the camera is pushed forward on the back legs.
6. Lego stop motion – 30 still shots of Lego action (one second each)

Once we had achieved these shots we had to then individually go away and edit the footage we received, certain types of editing were recommended for us to try. These were the ones recommended:

• Cloning Edits
• split Screen
• Blurred Background
• Make an object or person colour and the rest in black and white
• Titles

Once we completed these we also try other effects of our own choice the ones which I completed were 'Distort', 'Ghosting' and 'Reverse'. Here is my final edit of Banana Phone: