monochrome moments essay

Monochrome Moments – Final K-Film 

Keyboard shortcuts.

Most applications reserve keyboard shortcuts for the functions that use most often. It is really good to learn all of these as it will speed up your editing and additionally alert you to functions that the software developers and other users find important. (You can learn much about the software by looking at keyboard shortcuts).

Find the keyboard shortcuts for Adobe Premiere and note two or more functions that you’ve never used before that may be invaluable to editing.

Some of the short cuts in Adobe Premiere that I think are extremely useful are:

1. The nudge clip ones:

– Nudge Clip Selection Left Five Frames: Shift+Cmd+Left

– Nudge Clip Selection Left One Frame: Cmd+Left

– Nudge Clip Selection Right Five Frames: Shift+Cmd+Right

– Nudge Clip Selection Right One Frame: Cmd+Right

I am terrible at moving clips just a frame or two one way, this short cuts makes this process precise and easy!

2. The simple Selection key: V. The best and most useful short cut there is.

In this clip screened in the lecture from the Coen brothers’ ‘Blood Simple‘ describe what is happening in terms of the edits specifically in terms of the audio and video.

 

In the scene of Blood Simple, clean and sharp editing of video and audio is used. In the video they are all clean cuts from one shot to the next, never using transitions such as fading in or out. The audio is also very matter of fact, each movement has a sound, from the ruffle of a suit when a character moves to the obvious clunk of the lighter on the table. A large majority of the sounds used were foley and would have been recored and interred during postproduction.

Consider Sandra’s lecture “Directing Actors” and describe at least a couple of points that you took away from it (even if you’re not the director).

There were heaps of points I took out of the ‘directing actors’ lectures that I think are vital for a shoot to go well. Two of the most important things that I took away were:

1. Rehearsing with the actors before the day/ time of the shoot. This is really important as it ensures the actors are not only comfortable with the script but also used to having your direction and it also ensures that they are able to work well with each other (if there is more than one actor). I personally have been in the situation of acting in film without first rehearsing with the director and other actors. It can be an overwhelming experience with so many new aspects to deal with and can effect the actors performance. This can lead to not only a less than desirable performance from the actor, but can also cause the shoot to run overtime due to having to reshoot unrehearsed shots.

 

2. Another point I took away from the lecture was the importance of giving actors some freedom with the script and character and allowing them to interpret the script themselves. Not doing so can stifle an actor’s creativity and also prohibit you from finding new depths in your script and film. You can always direct actors to perform the way you see the script, but if you shut off the possibility to their interpretation you may miss out on something special.