Joe Schwab 1/10/17

Today in class we started with everyone coming to class, getting settled, and writing down the objectives like every other day. Then when Mr. Rivers was done greeting everyone he began to speak to the class about the objectives which were about being able to analyze the editing effects used by the author and how they contributed to a film. After we talked about that we moved on to how the cuts used by the author contributed to and developed the mood of a piece. When we were finished with that Mr. Rivers had us talk about the clips in class we saw yesterday and how the mood was affected by the frequent or lack of cuts the film had. My group talked about how the clip from Good Fellows was very cheerful, and we could tell this by it being taken all in one cut and having a very cheerful background noise. Then we reconvened as a class and we watched three new clips, then discussed them. The first clip Birdmad which was a seven minute long clip was only two cuts, but was a slightly negative tone, which was shown by the angry expressions the main character put off. The second clip was Wet Hot American Summer, which was a very cheerful funny clip that had many cuts because it was a training montage, so it was very comical.

The last clip of the day was From Iron Man 3, and it was a fight scene with many cuts to show the negative tone. We also talked about how this many cuts was also needed for the complexity of the fight scene for Tony Stark. After we finished discussing we packed up and the bell rang.