I spoke too soon...

Hey everyone, so me thinking that this was the end of my Uni blogging experience was way off the mark as it turns out we'll be blogging in this semester as well! So to start this semester's blogging, I'll just brief ya'll on my up and coming projects.

Firstly, a montage. We have to create a montage based on a chosen theme between 60 and 90 seconds. I've so far thought of a couple of ideas. I'm thinking maybe youth and beauty, young love or my life. I'll use a mixture of moving image and stills and choose a piece of music or soundscape to create tempo and help me develop an interesting editing technique.

"A montage sequence is a technique in film editing in which a series of short shots is edited into a sequence to condense narrative. It is usually used to advance the story as a whole (often to suggest the passage of time), rather than to create symbolic meaning as it does in Soviet montage theory.

From the 1930s to the 1950s, montage sequences often combined numerous short shots with special optical effects (fades, dissolves, split screens, double and triple exposures) and music. They were usually assembled by someone other than the director and editor of the specific movie."
(Wikipedia)

So below to demonstrate montage is a clip from the visually rich Russian revolutionary masterpiece 'Battleship Potemkin'. The film experimented with time manipulation and imagery to emphasise and create meaning in relation to the subject matter.





Next on the list is another individual project in the form of either an instructional video or a documentary. It needs to be between 3 and 5 minutes and ideally worked from some sort of script. I have had one idea for this assignment but will keep it under wraps for now.

Another assignment due in before summer will be a group video project. This project will be provided to us in the form of a brief from a client which we have to achieve and deliver to a professional standard. It looks like our client is going to be the Bath Theatre Royal so hopefully it should be an exciting opportunity to mix video and theatre.

Finally, the manipulation of provided material into a suitable edit which demonstrates our ability to make sense of the material using editing.

So yeah, that's about it for our first year. Updates will follow regarding how each project is going.