After talking to Paul, I have more and deeper perceive on editing.

1. About tilt camera up

Usually, tilting or panning through the all object, it comes out a surprise. For example, when I tilt the camera from ground level, and audience can see it’s like a man’s feet, however when audience see object’s face, it’s a woman. That is where tilt is well used. In my editing, there is no need to tilt all the way. What I can do is cut directly to his face.

2. About continuity

In my scene, there is a dancing part. Before dancing, Prospero go to turn on the radio first, then I cut it to a close-up face expression of enjoying. This way confuses audiences in some level. All audience wants to is what he will do next, so a cut of he walking away from the radio and starts dancing would be much interpretative. Also when he dancing, more jump cuts are needed, small, short and quick jump cut would be better. This reminds me of shooting the dancing scene all together, just keep the camera rolling. In this way, it will be much easier for later editing.

3. About background music and sound effect

When Prospero is caught by Tash, he gets embarrassed and turn the music off. About this shot, I stop the music when Prospero turns it off. However it comes out not that good, a bit misleading and unnatural. The music is like a sign, what I mean, is when he starts dancing, of course, the music fade in, then when he gets caught, the music should stop immediately, in this way, audience get the message of something happened, some one appeared… If keep the music on, audience may not be aware of that something is different. Also, sound effect, when Paul said that you should add a sound effect here, I suddenly realized! I never used one in my former editing, so I almost forget about it. I forget how many comic elements can be added to it if I add a sound effect just at the point where he gets caught.

4. About mise-en-scene and framing

This concept is always in my mind, I guess I just hasn’t got critical about it. Framing is like a filter, when you see it from a film camera, when you have picked up your framing, you need to get rid of everything uglily and unnecessary. Be picky about the lighting, composition, background setting, background blurry, frame tightness, etc.