EDITING AND SOUND PRELIMINARY PRELIMINARY EXCERSISE 1

 Planning in Film Activity 1: Film Opening Conventions and Editing in Film Group Analysis

 

Class period: 04- AICE MEDIA STUDIES			Date: 02/28/2022
Each student's responsibility should be documented below as individual and group efforts.
Team-mate 1: Gabriela Rodriguez Team-mate 2: Rhode Maelle Vitchiny Mardy Team-mate 3: Samirah Madeya Toussaint Team-mate 4:			Group Efforts: After discussing and analyzing the film opening of the GIVER, GM&T Universal Production, rather than having specific assigned tasked to each member, we discussed, and answered each question as a group. If there is a part that a member does not understand a concept, we did our best to help out. -Planning in Film Activity 1: Film Opening Conventions and Editing in Film Group Analysis. - Planning in Film Activity II: Sound in Film Analysis.
What is the purpose of editing in a film?
Editing in the film joins the shots from film making and combines it to one big scene. Editing helps form the films sound, background, etc. In editing, the editor can put cartoon characters, superpowers on a character, music, even non-digietic sounds.
Title of the Film:	The giver		Genre: Science-fiction
Production company or more	TWC Walden Media
Film Editor and list three films they worked on.	Barry Alexander Brown: -Son of the South (2020) -Malcolm x (1992) -Passing Strange (2009)
Theme:	The main character, Jonas is looking for his purpose, because he feels that he is different from the other people, he also senses that he is special. ‘’ I always felt like I was different, unique, what is my purpose?’’
Define continuity: In editing, continuity refers to an editing structure used to maintain and perpetuate consistency in order to create a sense of time and place in the movie. Further, continuity in editing, helps the audience to connect to the reality projected in the film, while instituting a coherent and organized narrative. The principal purpose of continuity in editing is to make the different procedures used to edit the film invisible, to help the audience to not notice or to disperse the belief that it was edited.
Conventions of a Film Opening and Narrative Structure
Film Opening Conventions: Document the conventions of a film opening. E.g., Production company, titles, etc.
The name of the production company appears at the very beginning of the film opening. Then, a small clip withing the film opening established the complete name of the production company instead of just the Initials. After the short animated clip,  there is a short narrative that gives a little information about what reality will be projected in the movie. This small description introduces the viewer of the movie to the main content of the movie, therefore establishing a quick understanding of what the movie will be about. With a drone shot combined with an establishing shot, the director introduces the principal place where the event in the movie occurs. While the director keeps track of the establishing shot, we hear the narrator’s voice, that describes how the society where he lives in is. For each element that he mentions, the director uses a different shot size, frame, camera angle to illustrate what is being said. For instance, when the narrator explained that in this society a specific language was required, a wide shot was used to show how students interact with each other. Moreover, when the narrator kept on elaborating how it was mandatory to take medication, an insert shot was used to show a hand pressed on a machine that was automatically implementing the medication in the hand of the character whose hand was shown. As the narrator maintains his narrative with a slow dolly in and zoom in, we gradually see the main character. That is when the audience that the boy shown in the film opening is the voice over. After the main character was revealed, the name of the movie appears again.  After, a master shot was used to fully show him and his two best friends, as they are happily heading to the school that they attend.
What is Exposition and list techniques used to establish the world of a film?
Exposition is when a description or explanation is brought to an idea. In other words, this is a way that directors can give background information. Some techniques in exposition in film is show not tell, make it funny, do not tell use questions, and keep it short.
List examples of Exposition in the Film Opening
-         Drone Shot that showcases where the maon setting of the movie -         A Dron Shot is used again to have a wide view of where Jonathan (the Main Character and his friends) are headed. -         Revealing of the person (the main character) who does the voice over -         Description of the society where the main character is living in.
The Save the Cat Beat Structure and the narrative continuity of the opening.
Beat I: The Opening Image	A visual image that represents the central struggle & tone of the story. ·        A snapshot of the main character's problem before the adventure begins. ·        It sets the tone, mood, genre, and setting of the movie.
Document the setting, location (inside-outside), genre, theme, tone, the mood of the film. It includes narrative elements such as text, voice-over, etc.	The opening image below is the result of an establishing shot combined to a drone shot. The image below shows the main setting where the narrative of the film takes place. The main lighting of the movie is low key lighting. Because of the low-key lighting is contrasted to the gray color, the tone of the movie is sad. Also the gray color of the movie symbolizes death, decay and repentance. Death because at the beginning of the film opening, not only there is storylines describing which even has generated the potential creation of this new society. Also, the narrative texts proclaimed that after the disaster, everybody’s memory was erased.  Further, the narrator also talks about how a disaster led to the creation of a new society that was totally controlled. Specific clothing style were assigned, morning medication were mandatory, etc. This little information advances the plot of the movie, because it encourages the audience to be more engage and understand more the narrative of the FILM.
Beat II: The Inciting Incident	It is the central theme or premise of the film. The message, the truth you want to reveal by the end of your screenplay. ·        A secondary character poses a question or statement to the main character to reveal the theme. ·        What is your story about in a larger sense or the big picture? ·        What is the purpose or reason for the movie? ·        What does the main character have to accomplish?
Describe Beat II	Beat II From THE GIVER reveals a lot of things about the world where Jonas is living in. In the first image, the audience sees two children playing, and on this same image there is a story line that says: ‘’ wear your assigned clothes.’’ Already this line reveals that the whole society is controlled by something or somebody. Moreover, the hook line does not even apply how people are asked to wear they clothes as a request, but more like an order. The words “ Wear’’. ‘’your’’. ‘’assigned’’, also shows how people are being controlled, and also how they have to obey, or they probably might be pusnished. Also, in the second picture, it shows how the area they are living on, has a defined geometrical shape. This reveals that the way that the city is built followed a pecific pattern assigned by what is in control. As Jonas describes in the movie that he is still looking for his purpose in this world, he also asks a question at the end, where he Is asking the audience if he thinks that he should apologize for what he did. As the main character asks this question that creates suspens, the audience might assume that the main character who has unique ability is going to be the one freeing the nation under the dictatorship they are under.
Beat III: The Set-Up	Introduction of the main characters in the film and an expansion of the opening image. ·        Present the main character's world as it is, and what is missing in their life revealed.
Describe Beat III	In this master shot, we can fully see the protagonist and main character Jonas, alongside his two friends. Although they all seem to be happy because they are near each other, and have each others friendship, they are all live in the same fade word dominated by dictatorship. Also, although they are all laughing, the low key lighting and black and white color symbolizes how truly unhappy, lonely they are, or even feel like they do not have their freedom. Also, this picture also demonstrates how strong the friendship between all three characters is.
Beat IV: Catalyst	A life-changing event that causes a significant change in the main character's life. • A moment where the opportunity to go on a journey is presented to the main character. • Life as it is, is changing.
Describe Beat IV	In filmmaking, a catalyst is defined as a special event that encourages the main character to act, which eventually contributes to the coherent development of the plot. The catalyst can be the death of a person, a disaster,  a certain feeling that the character develops in himself. In the world where the character is living everything has a uniform presentation: All the building has the exact same structure and color. There is no diversity in the composition, everything follows a specific pattern. In this images taken from the from THE GIVER, the audience can see confusion drawn on the character’s face. In this scene, Jonas describes how he always felt that he was special and unique. He claims that he had the ability to see things that he belived other could not see or understand. Although there were no color in the world he was living in, unlike the other livings, he was able to see colors, as in this scene he seemed to be amazed by the color of the leaves on the trees that he was seeing. However, He also explains that he was always scared to tell others, because he feared that this uniqueness in hm, would get in him in danger. Therefor, the catalyst here is his ability to see colors while others can’t.
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Editing in Film
How many visual edits are present in the film sequence?	There are 21 visual edits in the opening film sequence.	How many audio edits are present in the film sequence?		There are 7 audio edit present in the opening film sequence.
Describe spatial editing that creates continuity in the film sequence from the start to the end of the footage. You are using the graphic organizer to document each editing technique or principle from your word list and its use in the sequence. Add images. Add more rows as needed or delete.
This areal shot serves as an establishing shot since it infers the location.
In this shot the audiences then, assumes that they are located where the arial shot indicated without any certification or specification.
The final touch is this particular arial shot wich confirms their location by showcasing them in the in an area matching the structure or visual of the first arial shot.
Describe temporal editing that creates continuity in the film sequence from the start to the end of the footage. Add images.
The shots are consecutves and goes in that particular order to create unconscious peace of mind after the audience’s unconscious assumptions. It works to convey the order, duration, and frequency of the actions.
At the very moment that this scene occurs the audience will be quick to infer or assume the location of the action. They will just assume since the the two shot are consecutives.
The order in which the shot are presented give the audience the time and pace at which they inferred the location based on the establishing shot. This particular shot was placed last just to confirm their assumption.
Describe rhythmic editing that creates continuity in the film sequence from the start to the end of the footage. Add images.
The shot’s durations varied in seconds, as same duration or long duration would slow down the tempo. The gradual lengthening of the shot create slow tempo illusion.
This relationship between each shot creates a discernable pattern.