Actually, I did want to do the video which the idea is from the road movie, but thinking about the current situation, I do not have so many time for the rest of 5 weeks to travel shooting, so I changed my presentation idea which is from the movie clip Like Sunday Like Rain. I could say Like Sunday Like Rain is my favourite Literary film and it is also one of the few Literary film which I can watch the whole without feeling sleepy.

It is quite hard for me to find a place which is quite dark but has the lights coming in. the first idea from me is the church, there are some colourful glass windows in the church and the light through the glass becomes colourful and beautiful.

Another point is how to shoot without the tripod, I can see so many scenes is shot without the tripod, otherwise, it could not be so free to change the shooting position. I tried to shoot well but it is hard for me to carry the camera for a long time and if I use the smaller one, I can not stop shaking my hand while shooting.

Sense of the lens is also very important to the camera person, timing, how to catch the right time is still the challenge for me.

There are so many French words in film studies:

1. Auteur: Auteur is the French word for author and in film theory, refers to the director’s personal vision; the director being the ‘author’ of the film. “Auteurism” means analyzing films, to search out the defining features that might identify the director as the author. Auteur theory was developed in the 1950s by, among others, director Francois Truffault and noted film critic Andre Bazin, editor of the French film journal Cahiers du Cinéma
2. Decoupage: In film, decoupage refers to the editing process and literally translated, means ‘to cut up’. However, it usually indicates a particular style of editing, in which the transitions between shots lends continuity to the narrative.
3. Mise-en-scène: A French term used to describe the design aspects of a film, mise-en-scène incorporates key aspects such as lighting, props, set design and costume. More recently the term has been broadened to include reference to a director’s attempt to get across all the information about a scene in a single shot. For example, a character’s internal struggle may be conveyed through nuances in the lighting and set design – thus a mise-en-scène is created.

What is the road movie? Road movie is a film of genre in which the main characters leave home on a road trip, typically altering the perspective from their everyday lives. Road movies also can be combined with other types of movies, horror, romance, gangster films, ethics film.

There are 5 traditional ending structure in the road movie:

1. Protagonist reached the desired “victory”, to return to their original starting place, and become more cleverness.
2. The protagonist finds a new home in the journal at last.
3. Protagonist continuous journey.
4. Protagonist because their journey and unable to return home, or choose to die or be killed.
5. After the lead end of the film for a period of no significance excursions.

Although we do not need road in the whole road movie, we can find road movies always have flowing and changing shots, dynamic road-music and especially beautiful sightseeing. Natural scenery is always very attractive, in road movies, the scenery is also one of the reasons to attract people to see it.

Maybe I can do more practicing about shooting the scenery and shooting the adventure during the travel.

The reason that I am introducing the road movie is I really love travelling, I always have so many ideas when I was editing the photos and video footages from travelling time, and I always want to try and shoot some Relatively intact videos during travelling. Few years ago, I have made some videos about things happened in my travelling time, which is not very good and now I am going to use the skills from class and do much better than before. Apparently, another big problem for me equipment, I cannot help hand-shaking when I was filming, sad……

I have seen many of the road movies: Mad Max series, The Hangover 1&2, Easy Rider, On The Road and so on, I think interesting thing is not only happening in the movie. When I was travelling with my family or my friend even by my own, interesting and interesting always happen on me or around me.

In the film the road, there are many circumstances in different time periods are interspersed play, mostly in flashback show. In this kind of film, how to edit fluently, you may need to be more concerned about.

Firstly, I have searched the meaning of Mise-en-scène and Montage.

Mise-en-scène is an expression used to describe the design aspects of a theatre or film production, which essentially means “visual theme” or “telling a story”—both in visually artful ways through storyboarding, cinematography and stage design, and in poetically artful ways through direction. It is also commonly used to refer to multiple single scenes within the film to represent the film. Mise-en-scène has been called film criticism’s “grand undefined term”. I think Mise-en-scène is an action to create the felling.

Montage is a technique in film editing in which a series of short shots are edited into a sequence to condense space, time, and information. The term has been used in various contexts. It was introduced to cinema primarily by Sergei Eisenstein, and early Soviet directors used it as a synonym for creative editing. In France the word “montage” simply denotes cutting. The term “montage sequence” has been used primarily by British and American studios, which refers to the common technique as outlined in this article.

How to edit is very important in Montage. For example, I am watching a Korean Drama called SIGNAL these days, which I think it has shot greatly like a movie, especially neat editing skills and compact story. The story is similar to the American Movie Frequency, in the aspect that the main characters communicate through time with the help of radio frequency. Since both time and space affect each other, so the editing process and the plot manage need to be more careful. There are some cases, as evidence come to light, the characters and the motive of the crime scene scenario will gradually emerge. This will all been shooting in one time, but the editors need to consider a lot, of course, when they were shooting, they needed to plan all the setting of a variety of props and also the props which need to remark placed after reset.

The Decoupage to a film, as I think is the soul of the film. To be honest, nowadays, there are so many after effect we can use, so many options in every film edit software, even if your shooting is not perfectly, you can use these softwares to modification, but there is no help in editing, it is all on us,

What would like to express the “truth”, to see how the clip. Which is the way how I understand the Montage.

Rely on the principle omitted several points select events and actions to medium shot, panoramic vision to show the spatial relationship to emphasize the close-up visual details and focus omitted partially supplemented by the experience of the audience. This is the narrative montage. Another two are Intellectual montage and Montage.

Actually, there are so many things I can talk about Montage, I think Montage made the video film! I think I will write about another detail article about the montage.

As yesterday’s shooting practice, we all tried our idea and it was very interesting.

Emma did lighting practice, we tried putting light everywhere, from left, from right, from the bottom, from the top, from the back, etc. and recorded the differences which showed on Jess’ face and also the background in the video camera. Each light environment will be suitable in different kind of situation. I really like the way which the light is in the back left, it made a little bit part of Jess’s hair is in the light and shine, but also got soft feeling on Jess’s face.

Jess did the walking idea, which she had shown her original idea in the class presentation. It is quite cool to make videos by using this idea, but it would take a long time to match the moving, we only had a little time to edit 4 videos. I think it would be better if we had more time.

Siobhan did the mirror reflection, which I had talked about some in the recent blog post about how to avoid the unwished reflection. We had a try and surprisingly, we got double reflection on the mirror, which is much more exciting to shoot. Another situation we did want to shoot is like: at first, a girl has not seen anyone in the glass door and suddenly, she closes the door and sees the reflection on the glass about somebody. We can see this kind of scene in thriller film, but I hate watching Thriller film very much.

What i wanted do is the full focus which is often used in the film or television but it is the skill i have not get. Of course, I know how to do it already, just need to mark the focal distance.

I have edited the videos from Wednesday’s practice, because I had a class afterwards and I was exported the video in hurry, I had uploaded to the google drive without checking the quality about the final cut. After going back to home and watched the final cut again, I found out the video is not in very fluent playing and it is not the same as what I watched in the editing room. It is weird from shot moved to another shot.

Another thing is we were shooting in the downstairs editing room, there were so many mirrors around us and it is really difficult to avoid our reflection in the shots and we tried our best to avoid it. I had searched how to figure out this situation after the shooting practice.

However, there are at least two other options for getting a shot in which the camera should, by rights, be visible but isn’t: one is using visual effects (optical or CGI) for the reflection. The other was used by James Cameron in Terminator 2: Cameron wanted a tracking shot (camera moving sideways) behind Linda Hamilton removing a chip from Arnold’s head in front of a mirror. If done with a mirror, the camera would have been visible as it moved around behind the actors. Rather than do this with effects, the set was built so that the mirror was actually a window, and on the other side was a complete mirror-image version of the set on the camera side. Schwarzenegger and Linda sat on the far side facing the camera, and a fancy Arnold puppet and Linda’s twin sister sat with their backs to the camera, mimicking all of the moves of their counterparts.

As the final shot, because we only shot this scene in one shot and I have no choice to edit it.

I have been upload the videos which I have edited for week4’s practice in Google folder already. There are two versions in the Google folder.

Both versions, I used a bland black video clips before the boy standing, this means the boy is also struggling with asking the girl for dancing or not, he maybe is very shy and the next shot jumps to the boy, whom stands up to invite the girl. The first version pays more attention to the girl’s reaction, she is very unwilling and even very unhappy. The second version uses another shot about the reaction from the girls whom are dancing as the background, I used this shot because this shot can be a reflection of the boy’s courage. He encourages himself to invite the girl and the ending is not very happy.

Of course, still many mistakes while shooting, actor using different hand to invite, the sound problem and so on.

Last time, we have watched the videos from other classmates, everyone has their own versions and different editing made different feeling. So I decided to edit more than one version to show and feel different between them.

We are using audio mixer today in class and it is my first time to learn and use audio. We do can get a better and specific audio by using the audio mixer.

Now Chinese Television and film production, rarely used live soundtrack, but take post synchronization, post synchronization is not from the original actors, but to find a professional dubber. But I was not always involved when watching film and television like that, I always thought the actor recorded live soundtrack to the television movie works can increase the atmosphere in the work, can make you feel more integrated into the story.

However, audio mixer it is helpful to record a better audio for the film and television, but limitations are still existing. It is hard to get the clear audio in the fighting scenes, and also the long shot while people talking.

As I think, I can use the audio mixer to record the audio of the weather, to make the film and television more true to nature, wind howling, thundering etc.

The last thing is I need to practice more to remember how to set all the button on the audio mixer.