script for my editing Vlog

Hi, today I’m going to talk to you about editing and why it is important, how it’s used and how it grew to be what it is today. What is editing? Editing is basically the coming together of all the footage that has been collected over the days/weeks of filming. In this process you can add visual effects or CGI to any part of the media production. It also allows tidying up small features and adding or taking out minor glitches. The reason editing is so important is simply because if the editing didn’t happen none of the media productions that you have seen will have been anywhere near the standard of quality that they are. Films such as: transformers, the hobbit and harry potter are all made as good as they are thanks to the use of CGI and editing which is the reason why you can see the movements of everything that happens. Why we edit? (In this section I will be showing various parts of different films those films are: marvel avengers, megashark VS giant octopus, rocky v, fast and the furious Tokyo drift- I will also show clips from different music videos which are: Olly Murs army of two, Eminem we made you) Editing is an extremely important part of the entire production of a media piece. This is because it is in the postproduction stage, meaning it is at the end of the of production process. This means after, any mistakes that are made are then permanent and cannot be altered or changed. This means that all in perfections and all CGI needs to be sorted and done properly, to the best they can possibly do it. When making a sequence that requires CGI, they do the filming in a green room. This is because it allows them to add effects over the top with a lot more ease; this is because it is easier to take the green pigment away from a humans skin compared to the red or blue. This is because a change in red or blue in the shot can change the colour of the skin of the actor/actress. This will then mean a lot harder work for the editors. An example of a film that used a lot of CGI well is ‘marvel avengers’ as you can see there is a lot of action going on I this particular scene and all of the characters that the marvel superhero’s are fighting are not actually there but were put into the film using CGI in the editing stage. (let the footage run for a little bit) A bad example of the use of CGI is in the film megashark VS giant octopus, as you can see the creatures which the film is based around are not at all realistic and therefor makes this a bad example of editing. (Let the footage run for a bit) Another way they do CGI and effects in media productions is the use of ‘white dot sensors’. Which are little white balls or stickers that connect the image to the computer screen. This is mostly used on humans during fight scenes as it allows the editors to overlay the actor with a computer-generated image. So the actor does all the movements but what we see on screen is actually a creature of some sort that someone is fighting. This same technology is used in some video games. Mostly wrestling games and realistic games such as SMACKDOWN VS RAW, mortal kombat, Assassins creed and tomb raider. However this is also used in films, for example in the transformers films, there is an actor doing all that the transformers do and then the actual final product of the transformer is then overlaid on to the actors body therefor giving the final product of the transformers as you will see here. (Let the footage play for a bit) Some scenes in films are completely CGI and no physical acting is needed during these scenes. This allows the editing team a lot more freedom with what they can do in that scene, as they are not restricted by what the actor/actress can and cant do. One great example of this is this scene in the latest spider man movie, this whole section of the film is done entirely by CGI. Enjoy. (let the footage play) Editing is however not only used for CGI and effects. It is also used to add lip-syncing. This form of editing is most commonly used in music videos. But however is also used in films which contain singing such as: mamma mia, high school musical and also Hannah Montana the movie, all of these had the songs recorded separately to the film. This then meant that during the editing stage they had to lip-sync the song to the movement of the actor’s/actresses mouths. (show part of a music video) However the recently released ‘Les miserable’ is the first ever film where they sung live on set and which then required no lip-syncing in order to make the words fit. Lip-syncing is a key part of editing as if the lip-sync doesn’t match up it can ruin the whole production. This is key when creating a music video or even in an animated feature film. (Show a part of an animated film) However they also do Chroma key during editing. This is when you take one colour out of a shot making that colour disappear from that shot completely. This then allows them to make visual effects. For example if you get someone to dress in a blue suit and hold a football, through Chroma key we could remove blue from the shot which would them make the football look as though it is floating in the air with no help at all. This helps to add effects to the footage without having to use CGI all of the time. However this is a very time consuming process and will take a lot of perseverance. Finally from the editing they can pick the best parts from each take of the footage that they have and this will then help create the final effect, one good example of this is from the movie Rocky V with the end fight scene. As you can see in this scene there are a lot of changes between shots of the actors fighting and also quite a few flashbacks. (let the scene play for a bit) How editing has developed Editing has developed massively in the past 100 years, with new ways of editing constantly being invented and used to their full potential. This all started back in the 1800’s with a man called ‘Edward James Muybridge’ who was the first person to properly put together a moving image. This image was the jockey on the horse. This was a similar technique to what some people use as a flick book. Which is a series of the same image that alters a fraction in every new shot. This was a good and effective way of editing but however was very time consuming and also the quality of the footage wouldn’t be to a good standard either. As you can see. Also the development of splicing also helped to push forward the movement in editing. Splicing is when you have a piece of 28mm film stock and literally cut it and stick the parts you want together with some sticky tape. This means that they would then be able to do more efficient editing and means that they could cut to more than one angle during one scene of the production. A 1970’ s-star wars was a new movement in the mode of editing. Using a lot of visual effects that had never been used or done before. For example this was the first development of advance CGI, meaning this was the first stepping-stone to getting to the editing stage that we are at today with editing 1980’-1990’s- they used non-linear editing. This allowed them to film different sections at different times. For example they could film the ending first and the beginning last. This has meant that there are many more possibilities to what films, music videos and even TV adverts are able to do in the way of editing their footage. 2000+- more recently there have been films such as toy story that are completely animated and CGI and also film such as avatar that are filmed completely in 3D. However it is not only the technology that has gotten better but also the general skills and talents of the editors is constantly enhancing being able to create and do more and more each time they edit footage that has been collected. Technology does help them to develop their skills. One of the biggest assets to the editors nowadays is the ability to copy pieces of footage from digital cameras or SD cards and be able to create countless amounts of those takes meaning they can edit each copy different and then decide which looks better without having to keep on deleting the work you have already done to one. Overall editing has developed massively and it may not always be the easiest software to use but the perks of being able to edit the way we can now are un list able. I hope you have enjoyed this, and I hope you have learnt something new Thanks for watching and listening.