Week 6 Reflection

In our Friday class last week, we shot two scenes with ‘performance’ being the key focus. Since I had arrived late to class, I missed the introduction/explanation of what we were doing so I didn’t know we were focussing on performance until much later on – after I had already edited the scene.

This got me thinking about the relationship between production and post-production. When I was editing the scene, I was more concerned with the pacing and rhythm of the edits rather than the actors’ performance. In the final cut, some may consider it to accommodate the actors’ facial expressions, gestures, movements, and whatnot (though I don’t really know how others might interpret it, this is just a possibility). However, in the edit room, I wanted the tempo of the cuts to illustrate atmosphere and changes in tone. Of course, performance also plays a part in it, so all in all, I probably assigned a 50-50 weighting to them. In the real world, I wonder how this would play out. How would the director communicate to the editor how to edit certain material, if at all?

This week, we were also encouraged to brainstorm ideas for our presentation on what we would like to do for the rest of the semester. Coincidently (or maybe, as a result of last week’s editing) I decided to my little project on how the editing process may be intended to deliver the scene in a certain way, and how that is realised by the audience. Actually, I want to explore more than that, though right now I can’t seem to articulate it. I will need to organise my thoughts.

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