SCRIPT
INTERVIEW
As well as that, Lee makes jingles and music for advertising companies for example sky and he also has many photographs in which he has taken, they are all on his website. He has also got a YouTube channel which currently has 33k subscribers on it. On his YouTube he posts his music videos, vlogs and guitar tutorial videos. I think Lee has a lot of experience with making music videos and he knows what looks good and what doesn't due to his personal touch within it. I have found many examples of his work for his own videos, I have yet to find any of his client work. But this video is an example of what work he has produced and the standard of which it is held. |
Lee Blackmore
For my documentary, which is titled 'The Art of Editing', I really wanted to get the perspective from freelance editors and filmmakers. This is because they can share their hands on knowledge of net working and telling me about their projects. I also thought that freelances would probably have more time then someone who works for a production company. Just because if they don't have a project running they would be free to interview. I made contact with Lee Blackmore because my brother takes guitar lessons with him. As well as being a guitar teacher Lee also makes music videos for his own band and for artist who are linked to record labels. He makes his music videos with hardly any budget to a very high quality of work. Because Lee makes his videos all by himself, from the music to the lighting to the editing I thought he would be the perfect person to interview.
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Organising interviews
In order to actually get the interview of Lee I had to talk to him and discuss what I wanted to do and see if he would agree to my idea. Due to my brother having guitar lessons with Lee my mum had his number prior. This meant she sent him a quick message asking if he would he the professional I could interview amongst my documentary. This is the far left message out of the two text message pictures. Lee replied that he would help me out and be in the documentary. Then the next day when Lee came over to have a guitar lesson with my brother we had a little discussion face to face on what my documentary was about and how long the interview would take. I said I would message him when I got the all clear to actually film my documentary. The next day I messaged him asking when he was free to interview and from there we organised the interview filming date. I found that this process was nice and easy as Lee was pretty flexible with his time and so was I so we could in fact get the interview done very quickly.
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Questions for Documentary
PRACTISING TECHNIQUES
To understand fully the techniques in which filmmakers use within their editing I have created my own examples. I did this to further my understanding of these techniques, before I go and explain them in an documentary. However, I can in fact add these example within my documentary when explaining different parts. This will make it more engaging for the audience. But it will also give the audience a break from just seeing old archive footage from old fashioned filmmakers. Basically, it will mix up my documentary a bit. The three techniques in which I wanted to focus on were: The Kuleshov Effect, The Hitchcock Montage and Parallel editing. I thought I would choose these three as I see them as instrumental in leading us into the editing of modern film.
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The Kuleshov Effect
This is my example of the Kuleshov effect. My version is very similar to the actual version as well as the version Hitchcock did to explain it to an interviewer. But, I do see this as a good thing as I didn't want to copy the original but I wanted to make a video similar so that people could still understand it. I decided to show a boy looking at three different things: cats, a women in her bikini and McDonalds. After every shot the boy would smile and laugh a little and what he was seeing. This changed the meaning of the sequence every time. For example, the first shot with the cats we see love, but then with the women in a bikini we see desire and then with the McDonalds we see hunger. By doing my own example of the technique I am modernising it and putting my own twist to it.
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Montage
I created a very quick fifteen seconds example of montage. I did this to show how short the shot were in duration and in length. This meant that I had to capture a lot of footage for this sequence. I decided to a quick 'getting ready in the morning' type of video as the character would be rushing around trying to find everything and put clothes on etc. This would allow me a good window to capture many short shots. I think by doing this it will make the idea of Montage more understandable to other people. As the montage was first established in early cinema. By doing my own example of the technique I am able to show to the audience what montage actual is. The effect montage has on the audience is to entice them and make the audience feel as if they apart of the protagonists character development and story. Basically, it ensures a connection is made between the audience and the character, thus making the film more meaningful.
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Parallel Editing
Here is my video on parallel editing. I took inspiration from filmmakers such as D.W. Griffith. I thought this video was very successful as it clearly shows parallel editing in the sense there are two separate events happening yet they are both linked to each other. The video is only fifteen seconds in length, yet it clearly shows how parallel editing is supposed to be structured and put together. This is seen as two people are having a phone conversation to one another, yet they finally bump into each other. Examples of parallel editing have been seen throughout film history, most famously 'The Godfather'. The parallel edit is used to build tension and allow the audience to feel involved within the drama of the film as they make assumptions on what's going to happen due to what's being shown. This means the audience might anticipate something bad is going to happen before even the characters do, like in the Godfather when everyone is getting shot and it's leading up to the baptism. The audience can feel the tension and in a sense feel responsible for the characters within the film.
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EQUIPMENT HIRE
For this production I needed to record my voice over/narration due to it being a documentary. And in my eyes having a good narration is very key in having an successful documentary. This meant that I wanted very clear audio that was crisp, without any background noise. Therefore, this meant that I would need to book the recording booth at college. I booked the recording booth on the 12th October, which was a Friday, and recorded with other people for around an hour or so. This meant that I had given myself enough time to say everything I needed to say for my documentary and also to allow myself to re do parts in which I made mistakes saying, when I first recorded. I filled out a booking for the recording booth and it went through very successfully. I also wanted an microphone for my interviews, as I wanted the interviewee's voices to be nice and clear as well. I booked this equipment out. However, when talking to Lee Blackmore, who the guy I was interviewing, he told me he had microphones, camera, tripods etc that I could borrow. This meant that I could borrow the equipment of him rather then borrowing of the college, which would be a lot easier for me as it saves me carrying the equipment back and forth. So I basically told the teacher that I didn't need that equipment and then I was taken of the list