Week 3

This week we got our first chance to work on some shoot to edit content. In the previous week, we were given the opportunity to shoot some content for our “Sexy Teachers” (pardon the name – nobody could think of anything slightly more serious – i’m not even sure that our characters WERE teachers). I’m overall really happy with the way our script translated onto page. Looking around the suites at the work from other groups, it is clear to me that we all had a pretty comical theme for our final videos. I loved the theme of our video – there was so much ridiculous drama and exaggeration (plus the acting of Vania…who knew she was such a talent?). We all took turns in our roles and it allowed different people to give their perspective on a good shot, or ways to improve a shot that didn’t work out too well. Shooting to edit is my preferred mode because it gives us a chance to challenge us in the editing process through sound and continuity which we found was a difficulty in ensuring the body language of people remained constant and true to the previous shot throughout the video. Furthering this, I can understand the difference between “shooting to edit” and “writing to edit” because writing to edit is a restricting concept. It forces the actors to stick to the script and directions, whereas shooting to edit allows some flexibility in the exact delivery of lines etc.