Daily Blog of January 19, 2018

Today in class we talked about assembly and the choices to create good editing. To start class off Mr. Rivers said that there were kids that still haven't done the Be Reel Blog since the New Years. He wants it to be done as soon as possible. To continue the lesson we talked about the "giant baby" as Mr. Rivers calls him. He was talking about the director named Alfred Hitchcock. He showed us a video on what Mr. Hitchcock thought the meaning of assembly is. After watching the short video we talked as a group what we thought assembly was. Our group came up with that assembly is the change of a person's perspective through the objects of the film. The overall class came up with that assembly is a physical combination of multiple shots to create story / characterization and tone. Many directors besides Hitchcock do these methods to make their movies better quality and more appealing to the eyes of the viewers. To continue the cinematic topics we talked about artistic choices impacting narrative. We learned that everything in the realm of editing is implied and that there are three bullet points that indicate this.
1. Develops Character
2. Linear sense of time (cause & effect)
3. Continuity of LOCATION
Directors use continuity to unify the shots and make small clips fit more well together. Moving forward to editing techniques they preserve continuity and assemble the story.
Eyeline Match:
1. Character looking at something
2. Thing they are looking at
3. Character reacting to thing
Mr. Rivers showed us a picture of Alfred Hitchcock as black and white and then showed us...

He asked us to see how this breaks continuity. For example the color doesn't match Hitchcock if it is in black and white. Big time directors use this method to save money when they can't afford the big time celebrities. They take different scenes on different days and make sure it matches up with quality, color, and the setting as the other cut scenes. As an exit ticket we had to go on google classroom power point and find a picture that matches the assembly of Alfred Hitchcock.