AS1: Task 11: Creating Pace with Cross Cutting

Creating Pace with Cross Cutting

 Editing is vital in creating a sense of pace within a sequence.

 Our Task:

Our task is to film and edit a short sequence in which two characters are approaching each other from different locations.

 We are to film in a small group and we are to assign the following roles:

• Director: Diana and Jasmine
• Camera Operator: Diana
• 2 X Actors: Bradley, Shivam, Samuel

 We are to use the pace of the editing to make it clear to the audience that they are about to meet. The pace of editing should be slower and the start when they are far apart and the pace should increase as they get closer.

  Using our editing skills we have included the use of pace within our video. We started our video in a normal speed and this speed continues until the characters are still at the classroom. From what I did, I had the video we had filmed to go from normal speed then increase speed quite a bit to show something's coming/ something's wrong then go back to normal pace again.

 In the scene when the two characters meet up outside the classroom, I had the speed quicken to show something went wrong. And another scene where i had the pace quicken was when i showed the 'drug' on the floor and then the teacher comes out right after the second it had appeared.

Plot:

The idea for this sequence is that there's two friends who are into 'drugs' and they go to school with it. Bradley and Samuel came in late to their lesson and they were to explain themselves to their teacher, Shivam. In class, they were talking about what they were going to do later on and one of them, Samuel, decided to head out first but to be able to get out of the class he will need the permission from his teacher. On his way out, he went and gave Bradley a signal to show that he needs to follow him. Few minutes after, Bradley asked his teacher, Shivam, if he can go to the toilet but his actually going to follow Samuel. 

When they were out of class, they drop the 'drug' without noticing and when the teacher came out of the classroom, he picked up the 'drug' and heard his students, Bradley and Samuel, talking about it and they were in trouble.