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role 1:editor paragraph
The editor’s role in the film industry is to turn untouched footage into a cohesive finished film, the editors need to understand the directors’ intentions so they can effectively portray them to an audience. They work mainly with cinematographers and sound designers. Editors manage things like camera footage dialogue special effects graphics and sound effects in order to put the film together. Australian film editor, Lee Smith, said “ I think my job in the whole process is to try to keep it as understandable as you can, because there’s nothing worse than a film where the audience gets lost to the point of being disappointed.” in an interview with WTOP. This shows the importance of the editor in a film process, in order to make sense of the story.
keaton, chaplin and lloyd
Joseph Frank “Buster” Keaton was an American actor, comedian and filmmaker. He is best known for his silent films, in which his trademark was physical comedy with a consistently stoic, deadpan expression that earned him the nickname “The Great Stone Face”.
-the general(1926), sherlock jr.(1924), steamboat bill jr. (1928)
Charlie Chaplin was an English comic actor, filmmaker, and composer who rose to fame in the era of silent film. Chaplin had a unique charisma about himself, able to capture the essence of the everyman, using his acting abilities to turn his emotions and feelings into a commanding physical presence.
-the great dictator(1940), modern times(1936), limelight(1952)
Harold Clayton Lloyd Sr. was an American actor, comedian, and stunt performer who appeared in many silent comedy films. He developed his humour from plot and situation and was the first comedian to use physical danger as a source of laughter. Lloyd performed his own stunts and was known as the screen’s most daring comedian.
-safety last!(1923), the freshman(1925), girl shy (1924)
auteur presentation
1895-1918 the birth of cinema
the lumiere brothers’ first film was “La Sortie des ouvriers de l’usine Lumière” 1895
the phantom ride were shot at the front of a train to give an effect of a ghost
the sick kitten and the life of the American fireman changed the way directors edited and filmed shots, the sick kitten used close ups and the life of the American fireman showed continuity editing
florence lawrence was the first film star
edison copyrighted his designs+ the light and environment in california was better
cousins described Scandinavia as the best in the world
“Haxan” Benjamin Christensen 1922
lee smith quotes
“You get a little less anonymous around award season, but for the majority of the time, you can be quite happily anonymous,”
“Although, I do get the person walk up to me now and say, ‘Wow, I follow all your movies!’ I’m always shocked.”
“They’re all embedded deep in my subconscious. … I have a pretty good memory for films. … I can see something 20 years ago like I saw it yesterday. … So I could be an idiot savant.”
“My main job was making tea and sweeping around the place, but that’s the way to learn. You start at the bottom.”
“I concentrated on sound for the first part of my career, then I did a transitional thing where I was working quite a lot with Peter Weir’s films as like a junior editor. Then I would be the sound supervisor or sound designer on his films, then eventually I became his editor.”
“Sound is an incredible way to control people’s emotions and pace and rhythm,”
“It’s amazing what you can do subtly and subliminally. … I have an enormous sound library in my picture-editing [software] Avid that I draw on continuously as I’m cutting.”
“Chris does make very complicated films and I think my job in the whole process is to try to keep it as understandable as you can, because there’s nothing worse than a film where the audience gets lost to the point of being disappointed.”
“The secret that we were always trying to do with Chris’ films, ‘Inception,’ ‘Interstellar,’ and ‘The Prestige,’ was being faithful to Chris’s original idea … but never getting into a point where you’d be sitting there as an audience member feeling that you’ve been left out.”
film role 2: director research
A film director manages the creative aspects of the production. They direct the making of a film by visualizing the script while guiding the actors and technical crew to capture the vision for the screen. They control the film’s dramatic and artistic aspects.
Directors start with a script, and work with a screenwriter and sometimes a script editing team. It’s not uncommon for the director to be the screenwriter as well. It is the job of a director to imagine the script in a visual form.
Directors are the creative leads of the film. They hold the creative vision throughout the whole process, from pre-production through to the final edit. They are employed by the executive producer or producer, who is ultimately in charge of a production.
Sofia Coppola
Sofia Coppola is famous for being the daughter of renowned director Francis ford Coppola she is a director and an actress with her first role being in one of her dads films; the godfather.
Coppola has a command of film form that lends itself to recreating interior experience, to conjuring a tangible and affecting sense of mood and emotion through the everyday. Long takes, close-ups and languorous camera movements involve us in the moments of her characters’ lives, while still keeping some distance.
Orson Welles
A style closely associated with gritty mystery and crime drama films produced from the early 1940s to the late 1950s. Along with contrasting light and dark for dramatic effect, Welles pioneered the use of deep-focus cinematography—presenting all objects in a shot in sharp detail.
Orson Welles began his career as a stage actor before going on to radio, creating his unforgettable version of H.G. Wells’ War of the Worlds. In Hollywood, he left his artistically indelible mark with such works as Citizen Kane and The Magnificent Ambersons.
film role 1: editor research
A Film Editor, or Video Editor, is responsible for turning uncut footage from a film shoot into a finished, cohesive final project. Their duties include studying film scripts and using them to guide scene development, determining which camera angles to use and coordinating sound and visual effects in post-production.
Film Editor Job Description [Updated for 2021] – Indeedhttps://www.indeed.com › … › Film Editor
Film editors collaborate with other film professionals, including directors, sound editors, and cinematographers. Their work makes sure that films represent their director’s vision and tell their stories in the most engaging and effective ways.
Film Editor: Everything You Need to Know – NFIhttps://www.nfi.edu › film-editor
As a film/video editor, you’ll manage material such as camera footage, dialogue, sound effects, graphics and special effects to produce a final film or video product. This is a key role in the post-production process and your skills can determine the quality and delivery of the finished result.
Lee smith
Lee Smith, ACE, (born June 10, 1960) is an Australian film editor who has worked in the film industry since the 1980s. He began his film career as a sound editor before establishing himself as an editor. His breakthrough came when he began collaborating with director Peter Weir. Smith is best known for his work on several of Christopher Nolan’s films, including Batman Begins (2005), The Dark Knight (2008), Inception (2010), The Dark Knight Rises (2012), Interstellar (2014) and Dunkirk (2017), for which he won the Academy Award for Best Film Editing.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee_Smith_(film_editor)
James Haygood
James Haygood is a film editor who has worked in the film industry since the late 1990s. He first began editing in the mid-1980s when he partnered with David Fincher, who was a music video director then.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Haygood
film roles
| role 1 | role 2 | role 3 | |||
| role | editor | editor | director | director | cinematographer |
| genre | action sci fi | psychological thriller | romance drama | noir mystery | |
| film influence | inception (2010, Nolan) | fight club (1999, Fincher) | the virgin suicides (1999, Coppola) | citizen kane (1941, Welles) | once upon a time in hollywood (2019, Tarantino) |
| movement influences | german expressionism | ||||
| practitioner influences | lee smith | James Haygood | Sofia Coppola | Orson Welles | Robert Richardson |
| key techinques | elliptical editing, crosscutting, parallel editing | montage, jump cuts | alter egos, poetic dialogue, colour pallettes, playlist/score good | deep focus cinematogrpahy, multiple pov, low angle | tungsten-balanced Kodak film(or mixed media), contrast, halo lighting, veriety of camera shots and movement |
| target audience | |||||
| production scale | |||||
| key themes/issues | dreams vs reality | consumerism, repression and rebellion, the unconscious mind and pain | growing up, suffering and isolation | power, vanity, corruption | film industry, Charles Mansons gang of hippies, creative non fiction |
DEMONSTRATING SKILLS IN INQUIRY
explore, experiment and research a mix of roles, practitioners and influencers in the industry and show skill and impact in your own chosen area of work , showing better understanding of filmmaker intentions