Greetings class and welcome to the January 24th rendition of our class blogs. Today's class was both a continuation and extension to the discussions we had yesterday regarding cuts, assembly, transitions, and editing in general. The discussion began with a general discussion about what exactly each of these were and the affect they had on the character, thematic, and practical development of a piece of film. We also discussed possibly reasons a director might have when considering this edits and additions to their film. We stressed as a class how important this feature of film was to the overall story. After the conclusion of our discussion we practiced editorial analysis by looking at the opening scene from Baby Driver and the music video for Childish Gambino's, "Sweatpants". This analysis was paired with an activity where we as students were to become either Edgar Wright, the director of Baby Driver, or Hiro Murai, the director of "Sweatpants", and defend our respective scenes as well as praising our contemporaries work or being critical of it. The students were allowed to work solo on this activity or work with a group of any three classmates. Mr. Rivers stressed careful analysis of each piece of film and made it known there was no rush as the clips were on classroom and the paragraph of analysis was not due till before our respective class periods the next day.
Things to consider:
- Work slow but efficiently. There is no need to rush this activity
- Write from the perspective of the director of your choice. You are responding to a negative tweet from a movie goer
- Bring in your contemporaries work and synthesize it with your own. Either support their work or be critical of it in favor of your own work
Link to connect with today's lesson:
https://filmanalysis.coursepress.yale.edu/editing/
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