Last week we had the ‘first editing experience’ in Media 1, the Haiku exercise, were also being my first video more than half year ago since the completion of my higher diploma course. Making something looks meaningful by linking relevant static clips taken by classmates and some of my own’s. Felt a bit challenging while picking them as the Drive were full of assets with different settings, and of deciding a theme by using what I had been provided.
Although I had quite a lot of editing involvements, how to think and did like an Editor still been a puzzle that obsessing me, such as to decide on when to cut shots, or simply thinking of what meaning I am trying to present through scenes.
The Editing is all about the eyes
Quote from the clip How Does an Editor Think and Feel?, showing us that how important facial emotion would be in visual expression that each of us can’t be ignored, eyes could tell us where actors are making decisions, feels depressed, and so on. As well as, the duration of a single shot is profoundly meaningful, What the editor trying to say between a 4 second and a 4 more second emotion expressing shot would be totally different in the world of film, that a long lasting one could give viewers time to feel what they’re going through with, being more immerse in it.
Next, the Rhythm. Through examples, I think Rhythm in this situation mean the visual is following the audio, or a subject catches up with other subjects, to smoothen a video while having cut when you think is the time to, by keep watching the shot many times, and, about what kind of feeling you are conveying to your audiences in that simple cut, assisting with keep practicing, to find your unique Rhythm of film editing.