EDITING INFLUENCES/ IDEAS

The editing of our video will be extremely important, because the clips are not linked through narrative they will need to be connected through the editing of each shot. The shots with similar colours or frames will either be placed side by side, one overlapping the other or a lot of shots in one frame. This idea was influenced by the use of split screen especially in film. 


Split Screen in Movies from Marco Heiter on Vimeo.

I found this short film of various clips of when split screen was used in cinema which gave me a few ideas and allowed me to see the different ways in which directors use the same technique to gain different effects.

 

Splitscreen: A Love Story from James W Griffiths on Vimeo.


However this film I found on Vimeo had some interesting shots, such as the two trains moving together, that gave us some additional ideas on how to link all of our shots together. There are a few shots that we have that could easily be connected using this editing technique and it could be a unique way of creating something using fairly mundane shots. 

 Each of these shots connects the locations through the editing, although in our film only a few of the shots from different locations are similar in terms of the things in the shot as these are, the colours from each location will be similar and so it could be said that this technique will also work for our film.

IDEAS

MIRROR IMAGE 
Some of our shots have a symmetrical framing, e.g the shot of Katie beside the green house, these shots work well with a mirror image effect. Through trimming the size of the clip, cloning it and then horizontally flipping one, we can achieve this.

SPLIT SCREEN 
ONE SHOT ONE WAY AND THE OTHER THE OTHER WAY
The shots of the train are the best shots to use for this technique, the idea that one train can be going one way and the other going the other is an interesting one that we would like to try out. This can be done by again scaling down each clip, flipping one and then placing them side to side

ONE SHOT ON TOP OF THE OTHER 
The shot of the green house felt too minimal and so we decided to clone the clip and then colour correct one to give it a blue tint, this clip fits perfectly on top of the original through scaling it down and placing it on top, because the clips are technically the same, the action in each shot matches perfectly. This can be used for other shots too. 

SHOTS COME IN ONE BY ONE
The idea that we could split one shot up into four and have each section appear one by one could be used to match the timing of the music keeping the track and video linked. 

REPETITION
In keeping with the idea of distortion in our video, we could repeat some of the clips intentionally one after the other. Along with the beat of the music this will create something that both lengthens the amount of footage we have and also allows for the distorted mirrored shots to not look out of place.