Jack Simon 1/12

In class today, individually or with your group members, your job was to work on your editing techniques. Each group had an assignment to make a powerpoint on editing techniques. As a class yesterday we watched a video on editing techniques. It explained how to edit films with the proper techniques and cuts. The link for the video is: http://nofilmschool.com/2016/03/rocket-jump-film-cuts-and-types-transitions-editing. In your groups powerpoint, each member had to choose two different cuts from the link above and match each cut to a different scene in a movie, show, etc. The way my group did this project was each person chose two different cuts and figured out what scene from a film they thought it would be in. Within the powerpoint you had to attach a clip of the scene you chose, the definition of the cut you chose, and an explanation of why this cut fits the scene. The two different cuts I chose were "wipes" and "Cross Cutting". Wipes is when a screen wipes from one scene to the other, while cross cutting is back in forth in between locations. Drake and Josh was an example of a show that had wipes in it because in between every scene there is a wipe onto the other scene. For cross cutting I used the movie Taken because when the daughter calls the father, the scene goes back in forth in between locations. Making this powerpoint was helpful because it helped everyone figure out what kind've cuts there are in films, and why there are different ones.