Savannah's A-Level Media Blog - Course Work

    Editing Essay: 750 word analysis The Godfather (1972) was an acclaimed movie that depicts the lifestyle of a family that has involvement in mafia activities. it was based on Mario Puzo's 1969 crime novel of the same name. This film was directed by Francis Ford Coppola. Coppola uses editing to unify creatively beautiful scenes and heighten the gratifications experienced by the audience.  Francis Ford Coppola's cinematic masterpiece The Godfather actively uses editing techniques to make the experience for the audience pleasurable. The most prominent editing technique is using audio. One aspect of audio that is notable is the diegetic sound of the christening playing throughout the entirety of the montage scene. The directors choice to do this successfully brings the two, vastly different, elements of this scene together; these elements being the holy christening and the bloody scenes of death. Another editing technique, that involves audio, is parallel sound, this links to

Film & TV Language index 1) Film poster analysis 2) Mise-en-scene blog tasks 3) Mise-en-scene video recreation or plan 4) Lighting blog tasks 5) Sound blog tasks 6)  Sound: parallel and contrapuntal video 7)Sound: parallel and contrapuntal video feedback and learner response 8)  Cinematography blog tasks 9) Cinematography video task 10)Cinematography video task learner response 11)   Editing video task  12) Editing Task  learner response 13 )  Editing blog task - 750 word analysis

Editing video feedback/learner response Feedback/comments from Mr Bush WWW:  Well formatted script Effective use of music Lower audio during dialogue Very effective match on action Excellent POV shot  Fade off at the end Includes a film title  Very smooth cinematography  Proportional fixed shot Shot-reverse shot  EBI: Include every shot in the shot list Smoother transition between the decrease in non-diegetic sound  Centre the dialogue on the script I believe that I successfully met the brief of the task. I incorporated the three aspects of key editing that was required.  In terms of my strengths, I think I successfully achieved a smooth match on the action throughout the video. I also incorporated knowledge from previous lessons by using Jcuts and L cuts to achieve a smooth view time for the audience. I also made sure that the non-diegetic sound perfectly matched the tense conversation. In terms of weaknesses, it would've been better if there was no background sound from the stude