Analysing Documentary Shots

Pink Boy: A Portrait of a Gender-Creative Child

1. Shot Angle and any Camera Movement, Head room?  Lead Room? Rule of thirds used?
2. How the helps tell the story
3. Add why you think it was chosen in terms of helping the viewer understand the story

Head Room - Amount of room between the actor / actress head and the top frame
Lead Room - Leaving room for the actor / actress to use or someone to walk into

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• Equal amount of head and lead room.
• Angle - Neutral / Eye level 
• No rule of thirds
2.  It helps show the message of loving yourself to have fun
3.  Trying her best to do something and trying to have fun

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• Equal amount of head and lead room.
• Angle - Neutral / Eye level 
• No rule of thirds
2.  It helps show the message of loving yourself to have fun - shows by the boy looking up 
3.  Shows no matter what happens if you love yourself and accept yourself you can always have fun and be free

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• Equal amount of head and lead room.
• No  rules of thirds
• Side Angle 
2. Shows the mum drilling
• Shows the mum is hardworking
• Shows the whole shot of the room
• Tools, Mum, Shelves on wall

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• Side Angle
• Eye level
• Equal amount of head and lead room
2. Gives it a sad vibe
• Looks like old music video shots
• Angle makes the boy look sad
3. 
   
• It was chosen to show how a angle can effect the mood

The Role of the Editor and the Purpose of Editing

General Editing Tips

• Think about how the order of your clips affects the piece. How can 2 shots next to each other create specific meaning?
• Consider the pacing of your clips and how pacing should be used to enhance your story
• It is usually best to cut on movement
• Consider hat kinds of transitions you use and whether they are necessary
• Often less is more when it comes to adding effects and transitions. If you add too many it can distract the viewer from the message of the video

Editing Techniques

• Give viewer they are watching one continuous sequence of events
• Film/ Video
• Number of shots
• Taken in different angles
• Taken in different times
• All shots edited together to flow as one

Assembly Edits

When you first put all your clips together, it is an assembly edit.

• Overlap of action from different angles
• After its edited together
• Sequence is tighter
• Sequence is shorter

The sequence is tighter and shorter because repetitive actions have been removed.

• When a cut is made it is on the action
• To make it flow better

Jump Cut Edits

• Cuts are unnatural
• Switches between shots of the same subjects
• Different angles
• Different places
• Sometimes its accidental
• It is used sometimes to
• Create tension
• Show time passing

Graphic Match Edits

Two scenes linked by images that have a similar look 

eg.

• Matching shapes on a screen

Cross Cutting

Cut between one subject which is intercut with shots of another

• Good tool to build up tension

eg.

• Conversation between 2 people
• Actions taking place in two different locations 
• Car racing towards someone

Pacing

Pacing is a rhythm of cuts or how long a shot is on screen

• Also known as "rhythm of an edited piece" or "how long each shot plays at screen"

Judging how long a shot should be is more instinctive because all of use have been watching pacing in TV shows and movies our whole lives. A lot depends on how much visual information is given in any one shot.

• You need to give the viewer time to register each shot
• Editors say that you need to feel the change of shot

Good rule:

The second you get bored of a shot cut to the next one

Subject of an edited piece gives you clues on how it should be paced.

Eg.

Action Movies

• Short, quick Cuts
• To convey "edge of seat" feel
• Tension
• Breathlessness

Sedate (Calm) Movies

• Longer to establish
• Slow pace
• Represents of the activity or mood
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Cutting to the beat of the music helps establish the pace of the film.

Transitions

Slow Paced Documentary

• Slowly Dissolve
• Cross Fade
• Slow Swipe

(The edits has to fit the subject)

Point of editing

When you're putting the clips together

• Editing shouldn't draw attention to itself
• Audience shouldn't notice that its overly edited
• It's ok to have cuts
• Simple = Better

Test

Final

Documentary Trailer 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WD98RR8ioic


Documentary Trailer 2 (Official): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PWMo1bWi_gY


Draft Documentary: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ofEHCiSqoAg

Official Documentary: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=257cY3pXqdA

Evaluation

Aims & Objectives & Evaluation

• To improve my understanding of video editing
• Watch After Effects videos for more information
• Watch Photoshop videos for more information

Evaluation:

I made the video using most of the effects I saw on the photoshop and after effects videos and I fully understand how to edit and develop on photoshop and after effects.

Strengths: My strengths are adding effects and learning more things for the title sequences and doing it smoothly.
Weaknesses: I forget things really easily so every time I edit I have to re-watch the photoshop and after effects videos so I can have a brief explanation on what to do again.

Improve: If I could do this again and improve on it I would watch more videos to get a better understanding and ask teachers for help or friends.

• To be appealing to the audience
• To use After Effects to add special effects needed
• Bright Colours for text
• Adding some flashing effects in the beginning
• Fading Transitions

Evaluation:

After some feedback everyone said my titles sequence was very cool and well edited so I think this really appealed to the audience and it went well.

Strengths: My strengths are making lots of flashing colours and using bold fonts for the title sequence and using the right choice of sound for the title sequence. I mostly used after effects instead of photoshop because it had more effects and in my opinion it was easier.
Weaknesses: In the end, there was another title sequence and I thought it was very slow so I think I should have made it a bit quicker. I don't think the fading transition would look good with my title sequence so I didn't add it.

Improve: Before sending it to the group, I think I should have asked other people for some feedback so I knew how to improve it to make it perfect.

• To be high quality
• Music has to match the video
• Right timing for the transitions and the text appearing
• Good quality images - not copyrighted

Evaluation:

The music and images took a really long time to find and it was hard to get non copyrighted images. It also took a long time to match the music and titles together since I had to find the beat and every time there was a hard beat I had to change the text.

Strengths: The transitions were clear and the fonts were easy to read. The music matched the video and ended at the same time, which means the timing was good. There was good pictures and nice videos in the title sequence.

Improve: Like the one before I think I should have gotten feedback first before sending it to my group members so I could be high quality and perfect.

• To be confident in using after effects and photoshop
• Practice
• Watching Videos
• Trial and Error - Effects

Evaluation:

I didn't really have that much time to practice on using after effects and photoshop since it takes a really long time and I'm usually busy. But, I did watch videos so I got a brief idea on how to do the editing and effects on the title sequence. When I had time to do the title sequence, I had lots of trial and errors with the effects because I wanted it to match and look good so I had to keep switching different effects to find the right one.

Strengths: When I finally found the right effect, it really made the text and video stand out. I really liked how the title sequence turned out.

Improve: Make time to practice

• Make the title sequence original
• Unique Effects
• Unexpected fonts
• Old School Music

Evaluation:

Since it had to be something very unique and original it took me a long time to find nice bright fonts and dark backgrounds for the video. I thought having a 2D text made the titles really boring so I made it into a 3D text. In the beginning I was going to do some animation with the text but it kept getting messed up and I couldn't fix it and since I was running out of time I eventually gave up.

Strengths: I really liked the fonts used and the music matched the title sequence. - Eye Catching
Weaknesses: Lots of mistakes and problems - Giving up.

Improve: I shouldn't have gave up because if I didn't the title sequence would have been very original and unique.

Title Sequence and Logo + Brief Explanation of how I did the Logo and Title Sequence

This is the opening for the title sequence.

Since my theme was to making something old school in the beginning, I decided to add a old TV effect and some flashing transition.

This is our intro.

For the titles sequence, I wanted to make something upbeat and old school so I used the intros of old school games and added a 3D text showing the roles. 

LOGO

I had to make the logo for the group since our Program Ident Designer used a logo designer off the internet and also he didn't follow our drawing for the logo.

How it was made - Layers

First I used the 3D text from photoshop and typed it like this

     L

     E

     A

     R

AMING

     I

     N

     G

Then I had a separate text layer just for the letter G in the start of 'Gaming', so I can enlarge it and try to make the text look like the number '4', I added a thin stroke line and an outer glow on both text to make it stand out more and changed the based light for the text. Then I used the pen tool to surround the text and make the number '4' shape. I thought about how this logo could relate to gaming and the only thing I came up with is pac man so I added dots eg. '..........' all around the pen outline and left a small gap on the top to add a image of pac man to make it look like its eating the pac-dots.

Aims and Objectives

Aims & Objectives Quiz

Aims & Objectives

• To improve my understanding of video editing
• Watch After Effects videos for more information
• Watch Photoshop videos for more information
• To be appealing to the audience
• To use After Effects to add special effects needed
• Bright Colours for text
• Adding some flashing effects in the beginning
• Fading Transitions
• To be high quality
• Music has to match the video
• Right timing for the transitions and the text appearing
• Good quality images - not copyrighted
• To be confident in using after effects and photoshop
• Practice
• Watching Videos
• Trial and Error
• Make the title sequence original
• Unique Effects
• Unexpected fonts
• Old School Music

Tutorial Work

3D Text Animation in Photoshop

I chose the 3D text animation tutorial because I think that this can really help me for my title sequence. I think I might be doing this kind of text for the title sequence.