Surfing Edit 2

After the students had completed their first edit of the man surfing, they were then given the opportunity to re-edit their piece of footage using a soundtrack of their choice. One student used the soundtrack "Otherworld" by Nobuo Uematsu. Below is the film they submitted and points of what was achieved and could be improved within the piece.

• The film is edited to the beat of the song and this increases the pace of the film. It also aids the flow of the film as the shot changes every time the loud guitar starts. IF the editor was to film this again, it would enhance the edit if the part where the man is jumping has some stronger music behind it as at that point the music goes sombre again.
• Comparing this piece with the first edit, there is more use of angles and with the variety it enables quicker cuts which don't feel as repetitive as the first attempt the editor did with this task. 
• A strength of this film is that the continuity is much more seamless then in the first attempt by the editor, although there could have been a higher usage of cut in motion where the editor would edit two shots where the man was in the same position from different angles, this would have added extra cuts to increase the pace.
• The pace of this film faster than the previous edit, but it still lacks the pace required for the context of the film. To make this film better it would require being edited with a faster pace.

This film was edited in the Adobe Premiere Pro suite. 

Move - STA Travel Australia

Today the students at Staffordshire were taught about how edits can be used to move location. The students were shown the video "Move - STA Travel Australia". The video shows how you can use cut in motion to move the story along and how much of the scene you can change without it ruining the pace. The audience mainly focus on the face of the man, by this staying in the same place in each of the shots it keeps the continuity through the video even though the location and the clothes change it still impacts on the audience.

Another example of this type of effect is through the video created by Save The Children, a charity organisation which made a video to support children affected in Syria. The video shows a young girl for a few seconds per day for a year and the audience see how her life changes from being stereotypically normal to being in a living hell in the Syrian War.

Both these films display the editing technique of cutting in motions and using match cuts which allows for easy transition between locations.