Archive for the 'Feature Editing' Category

Part 9. Opportunities

Wednesday, December 17th, 2008

 
This week’s story is Goodbye Ernie
On Friday December 12th, Ernie Bjorkman retired from Television News.  For those of you not from Denver, Ernie Bjorkman was on the air here in Denver since 1982.  Not many have stayed in one market for so long.  The details of Ernie’s departure from television news have been well documented [...]

Part 7. Dissolves

Sunday, November 23rd, 2008

Our Story for the Week is The Ocean That Carries Meaning
This week we are going to talk about Dissolves.
I found a story in which I use dissolves in several different ways.  This story has dissolves used

For Transitions in Time

For Transitions in Space

Shots that don’t cut together

For creating a feel

This week I’ve decided to go shot by [...]

Part 5. Match Action

Saturday, November 8th, 2008

 This week we’re going to talk about match action.
Our story for the week is Michaela.
What is match action?  Match action is a edit that connects two shots together via the action within the two shots.  I’m very meticulous with match action.  Editing two shots together on a movement will often make the edit invisible.

A prime example of [...]

Part 1. Editing A Natural Sound Story

Sunday, October 12th, 2008

Run Fast, Shoot Slow …. is the first story we are going to use.   Please watch the story first. 
The beginning of the story immediately establishes several things. 

First off, I’ve established a pace.  

With a lot of natural sound pops in the beginning of guns going off you set the speed of the story.  You’ll also notice in the [...]