In Thursday class, we systematically learned the sound mixer. This is a good chance for me, because even I had used the sound mixer in last semester, but I am not so professional with it. After this class, I deeply recognize the usage of this gear, I hope I will use it more professional in future exercise.

In addition, we edited the group exercise3A we did in last Friday. We reviewed each shot we took, and find some small problems about it. The composition of this shot is not good, the space in this shot seems a little empty. Actually, we can move the camera position a bit more forward. In this way, the frame could be more balance.

In the editing process, we found that the different combination of footages produce several meanings. The theme of our exercise is pedestrian, we want to focus on their action, life in this city. It is a documentary for them, rather than a story. However, when we editing those footages we shoot, we found it might be a story. We designed two shots, one is Mona and Xiaochen sitting on the stairs, another one is that they walking on the street. Those two shots aim to show people’s daily life in a specific way. Although, those two shots have kind of ‘staging’, but actually, it is a way that we represented one specific real situation in the daily life. In addition, because of those two shots, the ‘abstract’ shots have a story through the editing. We put the sitting shot in a second place of the sequence, so the third shot can be a Pov of them. Then, we related the walking shot to the tram station shot, it looks like they walking to station and plan going some place together. Next, we change the speed of those shots, and add one relax, lively music to them. In this way, the style of this video change to a comic one. So, the choses of editor are very important. Whatever the shooting types we did, like the abstract montage or fiction story, in the editing process, we still have to use our own logistic to consider it.