AS1 : Task 3 : From Analogue to Digital Editing

Analogue

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

The first Moviola.

Before the widespread use of non linear editing systems, the initial editing of all 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 Moviola.

Video Editing is the process of editing segments of motion video production footage, special affects and sound recordings in the post-production process. 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 Most video editing has been superseded by digital editing which is faster and cheaper.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 uses bits and bytes (string of 1s and 0s) to record, transmit and reply images, instead of chemicals on 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 include fades, transitions, and other effects that cannot be achieved with linear editing.

Developing Editing Techniques Task 2

In camera editing is a technique of video production, in which the camera operator shoots the shots in the exact order that they will be viewed in. This is a very unique process that many camera operator may be intimidated by.
Firstly, we gathered the suitable props needed for the most difficult heist ever. Then we started to re in act all of the scenes without recording until we had it on point. The introduction to the movie involved Shaun Le'sage and onion going into the bank to withdraw 500 pounds. The next one involved Jake and his my evil minion charles emerging from the secretly disguised disabled toilet/elevator. They entered the bank displaying a vicious sharp pen and we ordered for the keys for the vault. Shaun then did a close up of Jake going to the safe and opening it and taking the millions of pounds within. Jake and Charles escaped with the money as charlie rang the local police department. PC Shaun Plod arrived at the scene with CID Beau Gregg's and got the descriptions of the two robbers. Next, they ran outside to spot two suspicious men matching the descriptions counting a large sum of money. Shaun and Beau gave pursuit of the robbers chasing them out to a local park. Jake stopped to catch his breath but by the time charles had realised Jake was about to be put in hand cuffs so Charles ran off in order to save himself.
The camera techniques we used was cutting the scene and then playing from the next. The recorded our film in the exact order we wanted the viewers to watch it in. Also, we used the zoom button to get a better and more clear shot from a distance. Re-postioning the camera enabled us to get a recording from better angles instead of all the same.

AS1 T1 Editing In Early Cinema

Thomas Edison

Ran a film laboratory where the kinetographic camera and the kinotoscope were invented. He developed the 35mm film strip that came to be the industry standard. H also developed the projector to play it.

early film making in the late 1800s:
This shows us the introduction to editing in cinema and how it became revolutionary.

The Lumiere Brothers

Edison worked with the Lumiere brothers and produced short films that were a 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 seen i the film Sortie D'usine (1895) by the Lumiere brothers.

Workers Leaving A Factory:
One of the first films ever made which astounded people that the people were moving. it was filmed using a static camera.

George Melies 

George was a magician who had seen the films made by the Lumiere Brothers. Melies saw at once the possibilities of a novelty more than just a motion its self. He acquired a camera, built a studio, wrote scripts, designed sets and soon  he discovered an exploited the basic camera tricks we know so well today. In 1896 he made The Vanishing Lady using a technique know as in-camera editing. In 1899 G.A Smith made the 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 popukar "phantom ride" genre. He took advantage of the brief onset of darkness as they went into the tunnel to splice (cut and then stick two pieces of film together) in the shot of the couple.

The Vanishing Lady: This was created by a magician and he introduced the early stop motion filming trick. Making this historical clip of a vanishing woman.

He worked as an electrician before joining the film laboratory of Thomas AWA Edison in the late 1890s. He and Edison worked together to make longer more interesting films. Porter made the breakthrough film life of an American fireman in 1903. The film was among the first that had a plot. He discovered important aspects of motion picture language that the screen image does not need to show a complete person from head to toe. That splicing together two shots creates in the viewers mind a contextual relationships. These were the key discoveries that made all narrative motion pictures and television possible.

The Great Train Robbery was a much longer film and it had more features. Scenes, action, a bit of colour and more of a storyline was added. People were horrified when they see people die because it was such a shock because they had not had anything like this before.

Charles Pathe 

In the film The Horse that Bolted (1907) Charles Pathe introduces the first example of a technique known as parallel editing- cutting between two story-lines: 

the horse 

the delivery man

U.S film







director D.W Griffith was one of the early supporters of the power of editing. He made use of cross-cutting to show parallel action in different locations. Griffiths work was highly regarded by many and greatly influenced the early filmmakers understanding of editing.