Task Two - In-camera editing

Task Two: In-camera Editing




The meaning of camera-editing is recording and stopping with your camera, so then you can capture everything on footage and see the characters facial expressions. Many of these methods was used back in 1893 started by a famous man called D.W Griffith.

This was exactly what we used for the video above. When someone was talking we would record them, then stop recording and film the other person that was talking so then we capture everyones facial expression and we know who's talking.

The video is about a couple of friends having a conversation about football, but unfortunately one of the teams lost badly and the person that supported the team got angry and jealous. Then his friend couldn't stop talking about the unfortunate loss, so he got so angry and couldn't take it anymore and decided to hit his friend and walked away.

To make this video we just kept recording and pausing our conversation so the viewers can see who's  talking and what the situation is about. Some parts of the video was a bit difficult like the right timing, you had to get the perfect timing on the slap so then it looks more realistic. Also we could have done better on the angle of the camera when we filmed that scene so then it really looks like I actually slapped Babajide. Lastly we left a couple of spaces through out the film for example at one point babajide was standing then seconds later he was sitting down and that was quite difficult to prefect.

The thing that worked well about this video is that everybody done well to maintain on their characters and we didn't have to retry everyone scene more then twice. Also it was a short video but it wasn't random, there was a bit of a story to it which makes it more clear and understandable towards the viewers.

Things that we could improve in the video is the timing on the slap because it didn't seem realistic. Also the pauses between the scenes, the timing could have been improved.