Soviet Montage

A soviet montage is when there is a montage of video clips to emphasis a point that the whole film is trying to get across. In the case of our montage, we tried to get across the point of not taking drugs through. We convey this through drugee getting arrested for taking drugs.

AS1: Task 3: From Analogue to Digital Editing

Analogue editing is cutting the pieces of celluloid film. Traditionally films are made up of images printed on to acetate negatives. These are then "spliced" together to form a reel on film. These are then fed through a projector a constant speed of 24 frames a second which makes the pictures appear to be moving. This is known as analogue editing.

The First Moviola 

Before the use of widespread use of non-linear editing systems, the initial editing of all the films was done with a positive copy of the film negative called a film work print (cutting copy in UK) by physically cutting and pasting together pieces of film using a splicer and threading the film on a machine with a viewer such as a Moviola.

Video Editing 

Before digital technologies became available magnetic tapes were used to store information - these are known as video tapes. Most video editing has been superseded by digital editing which is faster and cheaper.

Digital Editing

Digital media is a form of electronic media where data are stored in digital (as opposed to analogue) form. Digital editing is the use of computers to order and manipulate this digital data.

Digital cinema use bits and bytes (strings of 1s and 0s) to record, transmit and reply images, instead of chemicals of film. The whole process is electronic so there is no printing or splicing involved.

Non-Linear Editing 

In digital video editing, non-linear editing is a method that allows you to access any frame in a digital video clip regardless of sequence in the clip. The freedom to access any frame and use a cut-and-paste method, similar to the ease of cutting and pasting text in a word processor and allows you to easily includes fades, transitions and other effects that cannot be achieved with linear editing.

Developing Editing Techniques

In-Camera Editing

In-camera editing is a type of video production. It involves pausing and playing the camera whilst filming without editing when the filming is complete. 

First of all before we started filming we had to gather some props in preparation for the robbery in the film. Secondly we acted out the scenes before filming for practise so we didn't make any mistakes during the filming process. The fist scene of the film involves Shaun le'sage walking into the bank asking to withdraw 500 pounds and Charlie giving him the money. The next scene is me and Jake walking into the bank with the bag and preparing to rob it. After that it showed me and Jake walking into the bank casually and robbing it for the money. The scene after that involved showing Jake trying to find the money in the vault and then trying to run out the bank with the money (although in the film the money was actually dropped on the floor, but you we pretended that that didn't happen). The scene after this was a little blooper where Shaun as not aware that we were filming. All of the scenes after this was just basically the policemen chasing after the robbers.
The element that we found really hard is only having one take to get things right the first time, so there is a lot of mistakes in the film. We could have made the stroy-line more simple because the it was very difficult and since we only had one take to film everything which made it a lot more difficult. Although, i feel that the story-line was imaginative.

A con of in-camera editing is that there is only one take to film all of the scenes so there is no room to make mistakes. An advantage to in-camera editing is that no editing after the filming process is required, so in all, it takes less time the make the film and finish it.

Thomas Edison

Thomas Edison ran a film labratory where the kinetographic camera and kinetoscope were invented. He developed the 35mm film strip that came to be the industry standard. He also eventually developed the projector to play.

The Lumiere Brothers

The Lumiere Brothers shot the film
'Sortie d'usine'.

Edison worked with The Lumiere Brothers and produced short films that were once long, static, locked-down shot. Motion in the shot was all that was necessary to amuse an audience so the first films simply showed activity such as traffic moving on a city street. This can be in the film 'Sortie d'usine' (1895) by The lumiere Brothers.

Sortie d'usine - ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EXhtq01E6JI )

initially there was no story and no editing. Each film ran as long as there was film in the camera. An example of which is; 'The Miller and The Sweep' (1895) by G.A. Smith. 

The Miller and The Sweep - ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WO6M5Axalkc )

The magician was the first
person to think of
in-camera editing.

George Melies

George Melies was a magician who had seen the films the films that made by The Lumiere Brothers. Melies saw at once the possibilities of a novelty more than just motion itself. He acquired a camera built a studio wrote scripts, designed sets and soon he discovered and exploited the basic camera tricks we all know today. In 1886 he made 'The Vanishing Lady' using a technique known as in-camera editing.

The Vanishing Lady - ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f7-x93QagJU )

G.A. Smith

In 1899 G.A. Smith made 'A Kiss in The Tunnel'. This film is said to mark the beginnings of narrative editing (creating a story). Smith felt that 'some extra spice was called for' in the then popular 'Phantom Ride' genre. He took advantage of the brief onset of darkness as they went into a tunnel to splice (cut and then stick two pieces of film together) in the shot of the couple.

A Kiss in The Tunnel - ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=91jwTCcXW2Y )