I have been editing My Name is John on and off for a while now and the film has had some major and minor changes over these couple of these weeks, so over these next blogs im going to be showing each scene discussing thing that were wrong with the scenes how i fixed them and what plans i have for the future of the this Film. Unfortunately the Exports dont have sound so i will just be talking about visual cuts and what i plan to do with sound.
Scene 7 -
Scene 7 is a very short scene, and as we only got tow takes of this shot that where practically the same there was not really much choice when it came to the edit, the scene it self is a fine scene and helps to build up the empathy you are meant to be feeling for john by the end of the film. I have since said to my director though that i would have loved to instead of this shot get a shot of the camera operator being wheeled out by paramedics after getting a bowling ball dropped on his foot, though this would have taken a lot of planning and we had a rushed scheduled.
Draft 1
Draft 2 (Nothing has Changed)
Scene 8 -
Scene8 is another scene with only one scene i dont think the scene works as well as was pitched as originally this scene was meant to be more of a laughing scene where you find out that all along he was only addicted to being a magician, but as this is more told through out the film unlike originally planned, this scene is now more of a emotional scene. The shot itself like the first scene is slightly of balance but i cant do much to fix this as the shot starts of straight and goes of angle when we pan up to john.
I have been editing My Name is John on and off for a while now and the film has had some major and minor changes over these couple of these weeks, so over these next blogs im going to be showing each scene discussing thing that were wrong with the scenes how i fixed them and what plans i have for the future of the this Film. Unfortunately the Exports dont have sound so i will just be talking about visual cuts and what i plan to do with sound.
Scene 6 -
Scene 6 is arguably the biggest scene, so i will talk you through the scene, we start of with a establishing shot of where we are, i dont really like this shot one because i dont think the quick pan up works and secondly because im not really the biggest fan of establishing shots to begin with, so dont be surprised if this shot isn't in the final film. We then get a shot of the audience walking in and sitting down this shot does go of for a bit so might end up getting cut down, i might just turn it into a cut away of the audience sitting down. We then go to the pre-show interview with john, there is not really much i want to change about this shot i think it works great, and there isn't another angle of this shot so theirs no reason to change it. We then get onto the stage shot this is really where i had wanted to do my montage of the show going on and the audience enjoying it more and more, but as i have discussed i didn't get what i really wanted from john so it wasn't really possible, so instead i have john coming out and doing his one magic trick and then saying his joke, before cutting away to an audience member yawning. I decided to use the wide of john doing his stage show as the close up we had of the shot focuses two much on the brief case at the beginning. In the second draft the yawn shot is shortened down to get to the joke of the yawn quicker. The final shot in this scene has john coming of stage, in the future i am hoping to get an applause to go over this scene that i can put in the background as he walks off as the one i recorded on set just doesn't sound right. We had two takes of this scene one where the camera moves when the bowling ball is dropped and another where it doesn't, i decided to go with the one where the camera moves, my director also wants a ouch to happen when the bowling ball is dropped so i will probably record this the same time i get the applause.
Shots from the close up we got for the stage shot and my example of how it focuses to much on the brief case.
Some shots of audience cut aways i was going to use, and the angle we got of john doing some improve(though unfortunately this wasn't something i could use as there was no reasoning to it he was just saying cards out loud, maybe it might work with music in the background, but at this point i feel like it would just be a drag on the film as this wouldn't be a funny as i was imagining in my head
I have been editing My Name is John on and off for a while now and the film has had some major and minor changes over these couple of these weeks, so over these next blogs im going to be showing each scene discussing thing that were wrong with the scenes how i fixed them and what plans i have for the future of the this Film. Unfortunately the Exports dont have sound so i will just be talking about visual cuts and what i plan to do with sound.
Scene 5 -
Scene 5 is a scene that i have been worried about ever since filming as unlike scene 2 and 3 where we at least had the actors moving about this scene is very still with the only movement being when the actors reach for there pints, however i do think the scene works even if it is a bit long. The scene has two cut aways before it one being a establishing shot and the other is just to clarify we are in a pub the reason this second one is there is because i am looking to completely cut the first cut away, I did have some audio issues that i have mentioned before with this shot as one of our actors has a ring on that keeps tapping on his glass, but apart from that the audio is great. I do think that i need to find away of cutting this hot down though as this seems to the point in the film where people lose interest so shortening it down may keep them interested. There is another take of this scene where we pan between the two actors but again it doesn't work because or camera operator can not keep up with the dialogue, though i might be able to work with this clip inpertuiclular to make this scene shorter. The only way i have been able to make it shorter at the moment is i have the dialog start while we are over the second cut away, this only makes the scene 5 seconds shorter but does make the film run a lot smoother.
These are cut aways of the shot where we pan, they might be slightly to highly angled for what i am trying to do though.
I have been editing My Name is John on and off for a while now and the film has had some major and minor changes over these couple of these weeks, so over these next blogs im going to be showing each scene discussing thing that were wrong with the scenes how i fixed them and what plans i have for the future of the this Film. Unfortunately the Exports dont have sound so i will just be talking about visual cuts and what i plan to do with sound.
Scene 4 -
There is not really much to talk about scene 4 as it really hasn't changed and i dont see it changing much in the future, the scene itself is only one shot and is only around 15 seconds long. I did have two options when it came to editing though as there was a different shot from the one i used where it was much more wider, though i decided to go with the closer up shot as it just felt better for the scene itself. I also had a cut away of john opening the brief case but i really couldn't find where i could put this as not only did it break the 180rule it also was just not needed for the scene.
An example of how the wider shot looked.
The cutaway shot of the brief case being opened.
The First Draft
The second draft this draft is 2 seconds shorter this was just to make the scene run more smoother.
I have been editing My Name is John on and off for a while now and the film has had some major and minor changes over these couple of these weeks, so over these next blogs im going to be showing each scene discussing thing that were wrong with the scenes how i fixed them and what plans i have for the future of the this Film. Unfortunately the Exports dont have sound so i will just be talking about visual cuts and what i plan to do with sound.
Scene 3 -
Scene 3 is one of the scene that has gone through the most changes as in the original draft the scene was only one clip, but since then it has 5 clips and now the draft 2 of the scene is 3 clips. The reason that the original scene is only one clip is because when we had done this shoot we had got tow different ways of filming once was where the camera just stayed still and zoomed in when the actors went into the kitchen to fight, this was the shot that i had used in the first draft, but we had also got a shot where the camera followed them into the kitchen. The problem with this scene is we only got this shot from the point where the wife gets up and walks into the kitchen, meaning i had to somehow match this up with the previous shot. The only way to do this was to have a cut away in between, but the cut aways we got didn't really fit, this was probably because our camera operator got the shot after packing away the lighting meaning it was never gonna match. To fix this me and the camera operator went back to my house to get a few more cut aways, we got a cut away of a saw outside to go over the top of when she says her husband tried to cut her in half and the others where just kitchen cut aways like the kettle or coffee machine. When i got back to editing i put these cut aways in and they still didn't work. So when we had a meeting that week we discussed the problem with our lecture and he suggested as we had large banging noises in the scene we got a shot of the dog getting jumped by the noise we had got a shot of the dog originally but he was just looking up. I went along to get this shot as it was going to be a late shoot as i needed my mother as she is the only one the dog listens too. This cut away works great in the scene and makes the cut between the two clips hardly noticeable.
Examples of the cut aways we got from the first shoot.
The first draft where i only use one clip.
Draft 2 with the dog cut away in the middle to blend the two clips.
I have been editing My Name is John on and off for a while now and the film has had some major and minor changes over these couple of these weeks, so over these next blogs im going to be showing each scene discussing thing that were wrong with the scenes how i fixed them and what plans i have for the future of the this Film. Unfortunately the Exports dont have sound so i will just be talking about visual cuts and what i plan to do with sound.
Scene 2 -
Scene 2 was a confusing scene as it was a very long scene with very little movement, the first draft of this scene is comprised of three shots, john walking towards the shop, john in the shop and thirdly john leaving the shop. For the first shot i had two takes two choose from one was wider than the other, originally i went with the shot that was less wide, but in the end it didn't really matter as by my second draft i had cut this shot as it just didn't seem necessary. For the shop scene itself this was a basic static shot, we did have a shot where our camera operator pans between the two, but we decided on set that this wasn't going to work, mainly because our camera operator was have difficulty keeping up with the actors, for this reason there is no real change between this clip i the first draft and the second, though i have added sound effects for where he scans the items and touches the screen unfortunately you cant hear this though as the export has no audio. For the last shot again there is no real change as i like the way that these shots work together and unlike the first shot this shot has a joke in it meaning there is no reason to cut it.
Example of the extreme wide we had as an option for the beginning
Some screen shots from the one take we got where the camera followed the action, i do like this shot and again think if our director had more confidence in our camera operator this shot could have worked.
This is the first draft before the first scene was cut.
This is what the scene ended up looking like in the second draft.
I have been editing My Name is John on and off for a while now and the film has had some major and minor changes over these couple of these weeks, so over these next blogs im going to be showing each scene discussing thing that were wrong with the scenes how i fixed them and what plans i have for the future of the this Film. Unfortunately the Exports dont have sound so i will just be talking about visual cuts and what i plan to do with sound.
Scene 1 -
Scene 1 was quite a simple set up we had a opening shot that was never really going to change as we only got a few takes of it and most of them where the same shot, i did have two angels tow choose from when it came to the self help group though as we had gotten a take where our camera operator had stayed sat down when john stood up and he just panned up following john, and then we had a shot where our camera operator stood up at the same time. This wasn't really a decision though as we had got the shot with our camera man standing up because my director didn't like the pan up shot on set. One problem i did have was because we dont have specialized equipment for handheld shots the shot itself is slightly of balance, they was an easy fix for me as i just put a 3D warp effect on the clip and rotated it until it was straight and then zoomed in so that the shot filled the screen again. However in doing this i had made it that johns eyes would go out of shot a few times while he was talking. To fix this i then had to get my camera operator to go back and get a cut away of one of the actors looking up at john so that i could cut to that when his eyes went out of shot. Though this worked i don't think it really fits so i might have to experiment with other cut aways or maybe even multiple ones so that this one doesn't look so out of place.
screen shot of what the pan up looked like, i dont think it looks that bad though the shot itself does have a horrible zoom in it, but i think if we had got it a few more times it wouldnt have been that bad. (at least it was straight)
This is the shot i used before rotating it, i feel like you wouldn't notice so much f there wasn't lined blinds as these really give away the tilt that the camera is on.
This is the first draft of Scene on and a great example of how the eyes go out of shot.
This is the second draft with the cut away added to hide the eyes, i have also added a fade from black and the beginning.
