Week 1

According to learn this studio, I understand how to make films professionally. Before I learn about this studio, as a film editor and camera operator, I often communicate with the director about the scenes and shoot. When it comes to the editing part, I often use multiple scenes to cut back and forth and use special techniques to edit the film. After I know about this studio and took this class, I learned that it was very different from some of the things I had done before. First, there are the preliminary steps to making a movie, I need to need to make a floor plan with the director, the floor plan should be based on the director’s storyboard. I also learned that a floor plan could save a lot of shooting time, and the positioning of actors and the moving track of the camera could be seen intuitively. Second, when editing a movie and video, I don’t have to cut the scene to another scene as I did before and don’t need to use a lot of special effects. Because through this week’s study, the teacher shared 6 clips with us, in which all the scenes were one shot without cutting the scene to the other scene. what these clips finally show me is also a very good feeling. This made me understand that I can’t blindly stitch together a lot of pictures in order to look good in editing. I need more consideration about the design, how do you get what you want as fast as I can so that I don’t have to spend a lot of time putting together pieces when I editing.

As I said above, what I gained the most from this week’s study is we need to make a floor plan and storyboard when we make a film or video, it’s very important because these allow us to get things done more efficiently.