Speed and style of editing

Editing

Editing is the process of looking at all the footage shot during the making of a film/TV programme and placing it in the desired order and joining it together. There are two key areas to concentrate on the with editing.  In a film each scene may last a matter of seconds, or it could continue for minutes but the length of each sequence establishes the pace of the film moving the action along. The speed of editing will help to determine the mood of what is taking place on screen.

Speed of editing
If the audience is feeling anxiety and suspense the editing will be quick and the scenes will be changing frequently. In the Bourne ultimatum the scenes change quickly in the chasing scenes to make the audience feel in the film and make the atmosphere tense.
 If the atmosphere is calm and relaxed the scenes will last longer and the scenes will not change quickly or some times not at all. For example a romantic comedy. This link is for the film sleepless nights in Seattle and in the scene when Tom Hank and Meg Ryan are speaking the scene transition is slow and the background music is relaxed and sets the atmosphere.
 Scenes at the beginning of the film - as it begins to tell its story - must be long enough for us to be able to understand where we are and what is going on. It is also slow to introduce the main characters.
As film the progresses scenes may become shorter as the editing cuts between telling two or more story lines at the same time.

Idents

An ident is designed a particular studio. It is like their logo. It needs to be memorable and easy for the audience to recognise. Films and television studio often having moving idents. An ident always appears at the start of a film before the opening titles.

The big six 'Major' command approximately 90% of box office takings.
The big six are:

• Universal 
• Columbia 
• Paramount 
• Warner bros 
• Walt Disney 
• MGM 

The purpose of an ident is for identity, branding, packaging and re-packaging, schedule and segmentation within scheduling. All of these purposes are extremely important. The importance of an ident is is to show branding and to sell the companies name to the fans as they will be interested in that film if that film company made it.

Micro/Macro

The key technical components of a film can be divided into two key categories:

• Macro Elements 
• Micro Elements 

The term "Macro" elements refers to:

• Genre 
• Elements 

The term genre refers to a category of media products that are classified as being similar in form or type.

Story: A sequence of events, often referred to as the plot

• Narrative Structure: The way those events are revealed to the audience 

Narrative 

Linear = The sequence of events are shown in the order that they took place - beginning, middle, end. This is the most popular form of narrative structure

Non- Linear=  the sequence of events are revealed out of the expected order. E.g. pulp fiction 

Thriller Conventions

Costume/Prop

Costumes and Props

Character Name: Dominic Banks (Patrick Healey)
Costume: At beginning: Black shirt/ black trousers White collar would just be paper In Flashforward: White T- Shirt covered in fake blood Jeans	Props: At Beginning: Bible In Flashforward: Prop gun King of Diamonds card with the words "Proverbs 16:12" written on it Backpack or any other bag Fake blood
Character Name: FBI Agent
Costume: Suit with preferably a black tie but tie can be any colour. Suit Trousers I.D. Card Badge (not needed but can be used)	Props: Prop gun

Treatment

Treatment

Group Roles Cinematography: Stefan Mise-en-scene: Patrick Dennis Sound: Damola Editing: All of us

Title:   A Bullet for The Preacher Tag Line:

Synopsis: At the start, a church is shown. It then switches to inside the church, using the camera technique; graphic match. The priest is preaching to the audience about his prophets. Another graphic match happens and he is running a from the FBI agent. The priest finds himself in a corner and commits suicide by shooting himself in the head. This leaves the audience in shock as they are unsure why he is running from the FBI and getting shot in the head. This will leave a positive effect on the short film. We will use different types of camera shots such as long shot, medium shot and a close up, even a pov for the priest so we can see the audience.

Risk Assesment

Risk assessment

Hazard	Person(s) at Risk	Likelihood of Hazard 1 – Extremely Unlikely 5 – Extremely Likely	Severity of Hazard Outcomes 1 – Very Low Risk 5 – Very High Risk	Risk Level (Likelihood + Severity) 2	Measures to Take to Manage Risk	Risk Managed? Y/N
Falling Over during the running scene	Patrick	2	1	1.5	Clear the running path	Yes
Knocking over someone during running	Others	2	2	2	Filming the scene when there is no one around.	Yes

Shot List

Shot List
Scene	Shot Number	Description
1 2 3 4 5 6	1 2 3 4 5 6	Establishing shot of the outside of the St. Mary’s Parish Church with him in voice over starting the Preaching Shot of the Preachers Chest with him continuing the Preaching Shot of the crowd as he continues Preaching Shot of the Bible as he continues Preaching Shot of his face as he finishes Preaching Match on action shot of his face now with blood on it