I finally made it to the end of the book, the last stop, the grand finale, the finish, a bittersweet moment. I enjoyed reading some of these chapters in this book. It opened by eyes to a lot in the media world. Chapter 14 was about time based editing. Something not too boring. It will be helpful when we have to edit our video from design with Joy.
Pre-scripted elements are things written that people reenact, like a movie or television program. The editors pick apart the best parts to use. There are normally several shots to choose from. Unscripted is live television that sometimes isn’t the best quality that editors have to do the best with what material they have.
Sound bites can be short or long. The phrase talking head is used to describe an on-camera interview segment that goes on too long. Sound bites from different people can be combined through editing into a sequence to form a continuous thought or interwoven narrative. B-roll is extremely important. it is footage taken to change the scene so you don’t have to stare a person talking the whole time. It keeps the viewers interest. Natural sound is the synchronized audio portion of a video recording that is acquired when shooting B-roll. A voice over is a narrative device used to audibly support or describe the visual portion of a video program or segment.
Cut in is also, important in editing. It directs the viewers attention to a related object or alternative viewpoint within the current scene. Capture files are time based media files that are created when footage is ingested into the computer through a connected camera.
Three point editing:
- Set an in point and out point
- Set an in point in the timeline
- Perform the edit
- Repeat steps 1 through 3 for SOT #2 and VO #2
- Add B-roll over VO segments
Cut is a common transition. It does what it says by cutting a clip. The absence of picture data on a television screen is referred to as black. A slug is a media clip comprised entirely if black frames. A dissolve is a gradual transition from one shot to another that is created by over lapping the fade down of one clip with a fade up of the next adjacent clip in a sequence.
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