Pre-Production: Script 2nd Draft (current latest version)

Theory: Editing Preparation

X Fix in post

• Planning is KEY

First Step:

• The paper edit (pre-visualisation) Storyboard + Script etc combined
• Show what shots are used where
• Shoot master shots first
• Paper edit will reference a separate storybaord with coded entries
• Allows all members to understand what you're working towards

Second Step:

• GET ORGANISED
• Media management
• Meta logging - log takes and review footage

Editing The Craft:

*In The Blink of an Eye* Walter Murch

Concepts:

• Rule of 6

Emotion - 51% of the time emotion motivated

Story - 23% does it advance the story

Rhythm 10% does it occur at a moment that is rhythmically intersting and right

Eye-trace 7% does it acknowledge point of interest

2D plane of screen 5% does it respect planarity  

3D space of action 4% does it respect 3D continuity

Subjective over objective

• Don't worry it's only a movie

Brain buffering

Blinking makes the end of one moment

Hide cuts with blinking

Use emotion as a sign of when to cut

Edit Types:

• Matched action
• After action
• Before action
• Entrance/exit
• Foreground wipe
• Look off
• Dialogue referred (end scene of Dark Knight)
• Reaction
• Thought referred
• Visual Link (Beginning of Hook; more childish cut)
• Dialogue overlap
• Audio linked
• Loud sound (Indiana Jones plane explosion)

Only cut when there's purpose

This workshop was useful in helping better understand what we need to gather in production which n turn will determine what we have to work with in terms of what cuts we can use and how well we can hide them.

Pre-Production: Script 1st Draft

Lecture: Happy Mondays (The Visual Rave Culture)

Summary:
This lecture touched upon the rave culture and its progression through the years in regards to political movements like that of Margot Thatcher. Rave culture in itself has since brought out its own visual aesthetic and graphical portrayal of a more cultural  approach to politics and it has also shaped the fashion and the environments it associates itself with; embedding that impact in societies culture and progression through history.

Story Ideas Pitch and Feedback

After we discussed the themes we came up with, my group and I prepared to pitch 2 ideas:

Idea 1 was then selected for us to develop into a script and then shoot as a our short film. Evaluating the pitch, I think we put our ideas across fairly. On my part, I could have simplified the explanations of the ideas to make them less complex for Matt and Kelvin to picture there and then during the presentation.

Research: Themes of oppression in media

Adding to the research on the Coldplay music video "Hurts Like Heaven", this comic book series created in addition to the album in 2011, elaborates on the wider context of the dictatorship and rebellion in this fictional post apocalyptic world.

The story throughout the comic book series is about bringing colour back into a world of silence and obedience and the downfall of an invading higher power that seized control of a planet once full of life and vibrancy. This is a good inspiration for our film as it seeks to achieve the same messages as the comic book series; the liberation of people and the freedom to express who you are in your own way. In the case of our film this is done in a creative manner with extreme measures by using blood to create a painting.

Research: Themes of oppression in video and film

 Continuing with our research on the theme of oppression; this times in films and video:

Coldplay music video - Hurts Like Heaven:

Made for Coldplay's 2011 album Mylo Xyloto, the song and music video refer to a world where colour is crime and there is a dictatorship for silent obedience; never questioning the justification of this oppression. This ties very closely to our film story's lore of illegal creativity. The video inspires the rebellion and elaborate measures to be creative that we seek to show in our film. This being that not being afraid to think outside the box and stand for an open voice a human right we're all entitled to.

V for Vendetta:

Directed by James McTeigue and produced by the Wachowskis, V for Vendetta takes a more violent approach to the rebellion of oppression in the film that is the corrupt British government. However, the idea behind the man in the mask is referred to constantly in the film and is the centre of the plot unfolding. Comparing to our film idea, the long lasting effect of the idea of our film is that no matter what laws this world makes about making creativity illegal, the creation of life is at the heart of every human.