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After many late nights coding, lots of coffee and many tests we've gone mobile. We are starting with our Apple App for both the iPhone and iPad. We will be launching an Android version in the new year!
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After many late nights coding, lots of coffee and many tests we've gone mobile. We are starting with our Apple App for both the iPhone and iPad. We will be launching an Android version in the new year!
DOWNLOAD IT HERE
Shot/Reverse Shot | Screen Direction | Rule of Change | Murch's Rules
Motivation
As an editor you must always look for motivation for your cuts. With this in mind your first priority should be your audience and the story. As the editor you must determine what is necessary to affect the audience in a particular way. Should you emphasis something? And if so how will that affect your audience? Here are a few categories I look for when editing to help me make a cut.
1. Audience Motivation
2. Story Motivation
3.Physical Motivation
4.Character Motivation
5. General Film Motivation
As an editor you must always look for motivation for your cuts. With this in mind your first priority should be your audience and the story. As the editor you must determine what is necessary to affect the audience in a particular way. Should you emphasis something? And if so how will that affect your audience? Here are a few categories I look for when editing to help me make a cut.
2. Story Motivation
3.Physical Motivation
4.Character Motivation
5. General Film Motivation
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Also check out Walter Murch's reasons for making a cut by: clicking here
1. Audience Motivation:
Think about how your cut will motivate your audience through their emotions. Will it cause them to react positively or negatively to the
film. What will the reaction do to the film overall.
2. Story Motivation: How will the cut you are making move the story forward, develop subplots, build through character's lines and story archs. Will it improve the story?
3. Physical Motivation: When I talk about physicality within the film I mean the actual mise-en-scene. Things within the scene or actions the characters take that motivate the cut. For example, if there is a loud bang off screen, the character might turn and look, cut to what the character is looking at. Although this is a simple example it shows how something in the films world can motivate a cut.
This may seem like a simple concept but realize you can use this to help build characters, story, get out of a bad cutting situation, etc. etc. It is useful to keep an eye on what is going on in the sequence to provide yourself with many options to motivate a cut.
Example One
4. Character Motivation: How are your cuts defined by your character both in how they develop your character and how your character creates a need for a cut? How will your cuts add to the building of the character arc? Always make sure that the cuts reveal new information about your characters.
5. General Film Motivation: In the end, I always ask myself, will this cut help make this a good film.
Remember you should always be thinking why is this cut being made and looking at the characters motivation is a key tool you can use.
2. Story Motivation: How will the cut you are making move the story forward, develop subplots, build through character's lines and story archs. Will it improve the story?
3. Physical Motivation: When I talk about physicality within the film I mean the actual mise-en-scene. Things within the scene or actions the characters take that motivate the cut. For example, if there is a loud bang off screen, the character might turn and look, cut to what the character is looking at. Although this is a simple example it shows how something in the films world can motivate a cut.
This may seem like a simple concept but realize you can use this to help build characters, story, get out of a bad cutting situation, etc. etc. It is useful to keep an eye on what is going on in the sequence to provide yourself with many options to motivate a cut.
Example One
4. Character Motivation: How are your cuts defined by your character both in how they develop your character and how your character creates a need for a cut? How will your cuts add to the building of the character arc? Always make sure that the cuts reveal new information about your characters.
5. General Film Motivation: In the end, I always ask myself, will this cut help make this a good film.
Remember you should always be thinking why is this cut being made and looking at the characters motivation is a key tool you can use.
