https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vMIfScB9aY0
I decided to focus this blog post on a three minutes action short film. I believe the editing made a huge impact on the storytelling and feel of the piece. The relationship of the sounds to the images is a solid one because it's an action film, and we would like to hear intense background music, exaggerated sounds of the weapons, footsteps, heavy breathing etc. The relationship of the images to one another is organized by different shot angles and movements. While the two characters are fighting with light sabers, the shots would interchange from a wide angle to close-up to lower angle.The shots also change from their sides through the holes of the walls or behind the two characters or zoom ins on their facial expressions. There's not many colors because the focus was more on the light sabers. Most of the shots aren't that long because they wanted the fight to maintain within three minutes so they tried to fit in as many shots and angles as possible. The order of the shots were placed in were determined by the story line. The cuts were pretty obvious because the angles would interchange very often. If the fight wasn't three minutes there would be a "right" place to cut or not cut but since it is three minutes, I wasn't bothered by the obvious cuts.
The special effects of the wounds of the character need some work because obviously they didn't look real, but I'm guessing the genre isn't horror but rather action. Overall I prefer the content over the editing because it was exciting and left some questions in mind. But with action films we should expect obvious cuts because of the rapid movements.
Post a Comment