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One of the many extraordinary qualities of a moving image stream is that a sense of continuous space and time can be created in the mind of the viewer from images recorded in different spatial locations and at different times.
Consider the techniques these filmmakers use to link adjacent shots.
• Luis Buñuel and Savador Dali Chien Andalou (1925) [excerpt] <YouTube>
• Alan Berliner “Everywhere at Once” (1985)---vimeo
- • Dir Bob Fosse, Editor Alan Hein All That Jazz (1979) GW T7 Shield
- • Christian Marclay Doors (2023) (GW T7shield)
Assignment 1
Collect and Upload material
• Select 6 – 15 minutes of unedited material: from your archive:
• Recent moving image footage that you shot for a project, preferably your thesis.
NOT archival footage or extracts from a finished (edited) piece.
Fresh unedited camera footage.
• ENTIRE SHOTS: camera on to camera off
• Do not remove anything from the footage you upload
`– include camera setups, audio, shakes and wobbles, out of focus segments etc.
• Select material you like, not outtakes.
• Minimum: 6 minutes in total; maximum: 15 minutes. At least 5 separate clips.
• We will screen everyone’s footage in class. Alejandro (the class TA) will upload it so that you all have access
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EDIT
Due in class September 18th
Make a piece using only uploaded material in the PP 2023 Class 1 Uploads folder.
Suggested work flow
1. • Download all the footage.
• Name each clip.
2 • View.
3 • Audition audio clips, select
4 • Select parts of clips you might use and put selects together on a single timeline.
• Use footage from at least 3 filmmakers, but DO NOT INCLUDE YOUR OWN FOOTAGE in this exercise.
• Rearrange them.
(Allow repetitions. Add sound clip. Adjust picture. Separate sound and image as desired.)
5. • View your assembly. Pay attention to the context of each shot and the overall flow.
Aim for a 5 minute edit
6 • Revise. Add unselected materials if needed.
7 • Repeat steps 5 -7.
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Review (Sept 18th)
In class: Run your edit for your colleagues. Pay attention to their reactions as much as to their words.
Note: revisions are essential to post production
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More of Alan Berliner's Wide Awake (2006)
PP 2024 Alan Berliner examples