Week 2: History of Cinematography and editing
Walter Murch ( Godfather, Apocalypse Now etc ) – outlines 6 principles for editing. (His book on the topic, In the Blink of An Eye, is an inspirational read. )
Editing: Alfred Hitchcock explains the Kuleshov Effect.
Filmsound.org hosts a great range of writing about how sound can work with video.
Planning. Every hour spent planning will be savoured later when it has saved time shooting, capturing, processing, editing, rendering, exporting, loading into VJ software etc etc. Some useful tools/ideas?
Storyboarding? ( see also Hitchcock iphone app )
Understanding Comics by Scott McCloud is a great book for stimulating thoughts about how to pre-visualise and storyboard your ideas.
The Sour music video is an excellent example of how good planning can bring excellent results ( in this case, utilising the webcams of users all over the world ).
From In the Blink of An Eye, Walter Murch ( via ) :
“One of the most important things he thinks every editor should do when chosing an out point for a shot, whatever their approach, is what he calls a ‘flinch’. He rolls the shot and then hits the editing button when it feels instinctively right to turn away from that shot.
When he does this he logs the frame (or marks the neg with a grease pencil) where he stopped the clip, repeats the process and if he catches the same frame again he knows that was the right cut point. If he is out even by a couple of frames (there are 24 frames in a second of film), he knows that it wasn’t quite right and he needs to look at that edit decision again.”
“It’s almost an involuntary flinch, an equivalent of the blink of the eye. That flinch point is where the shot will end,” he says. “It’s very similar to gunslinging. That’s the reason I stand when I edit.”
( Has anyone in this class experimented with using a stand-up environment for their design work?)
Technical Aspects of Video Production:
Introduction to Formats / Codecs / Compositing : What is a codec? What is an Aspect Ratio? What is interlacing?
Introduction to Video Editing Software –
PC: Windows Movie Maker (Tutorials ). Adobe Premiere (Tutorials). Mac: iMovie (Tutorials), Final Cut Pro (Tutorials), Adobe Premiere (Tutorials).
Examples from Week 1:
What is Orthographic Projection?
3D Projection Mapping On Cubes
More cubes, with layered video. Resolume in a backyard.
Creating maps for Resolume using Photoshop.
IR Mapio tutorial with Resolume. Audioreactive video in Resolume, mapped with IR Mapio.
Using a camera and photoshop to make masks, then mapping these in Resolume.
Tutorial about using photographs to align and map video onto objects