Seminar 10

This seminar was used as a catch up session and overview of our whole learning process over the semester. We started by doing a group exercise of writing down 100 things about editing that we had learnt in the previous seminars and through our further reading. As there were only 5 of us in the seminar this task proved to be quite difficult and took quite some time to complete, but when we did there was a lot of subjects that I had personally overlooked and forgotten about and it gave me a chance to remind myself of them and their relevance to editing and my own learning.

The finished list we created of 100 things about editing.

This task was useful in the sense that it reminded me of things that we were taught about at the start of the year which I had subsequently forgotten, which I could use to either put here on my blog, or apply to my Out of Date cut I was doing to make it a professional piece. A lot of the things that were put on the list reflected the analysis we had done as a group in seminars on select films chosen by our tutor. My blog already reflects quite heavily and consistently on these so I had could easily relate and talk about them, however, the part I was contributing the least on was the theory and further reading side. This then made me reflect on my blog and my learning and gave me a goal as to what I needed to do to progress to a higher level of understanding in regards to editing, and I will attempt to execute this before the module is over to help my make the transition to the final year as smooth as possible.

After discussing this task, we went onto talk about useful things we may need to know when completing our Out of Date fine cuts for next week. We started off by talking about colour grading and how to do it effectively to only over or under-exposed parts of a shot. To do this you use the spot colour correction effect and using the shape tool, create a region that you want to change, then adjust either the colour or the contrast depending on what effect you want to achieve. We also learnt that you can simply drag the colour correction icon, when in colour correct mode, over any clip in the sequence to get the same effect throughout which is particularly relevant to the scene I have chosen, as it all takes place in the same location with only around 4-5 different shots, so I can keep the colour grading constant throughout the scene with no or little fluctuation.