New Wave Film + Plan

New Wave film Brainstorm:

• Montage
• Black and white with distortion layer
• Possibly edit to mimic a super 8 camera
• On-location shoots 
• Natural lighting 
• Make video footage slightly saturated 
• Make the film personal (Narrative ideas)

I will use my train journey to the college to my advantage and film the journey. I will combine the video with my footage and stock footage. Some of the ideas I have will be very hard to get myself so I will have to use stock footage. When it comes to editing I will merge the stock footage and my footage together so that it all looks authentic. 

The song that I am putting over the top of the film will be from a band called brockhampton, this band has done music videos for other songs of theirs and their style is very unique and eye-catching. Typically in their videos, the film is very abstract and experimental. Most of the music videos don't follow a narrative but have some sort of visual structure. I will be implementing their style into a new wave format. The music video that I have been inspired the most from is this one as the video has this grain and noise all in the video. The video is very dark and drab. I will be using the grainy effect used in this video. For the brockhampton video, the reason it was grainy is because of the lighting or lack of. The ISO was too high and this is how they achieved this effect, it works stylistically with the song and pace of the vocals.   

Although my video will not be focused on the vocals as much I still want there to be a connection to the vocals and visuals even if it's in a small way. The stock footage will consist of security footage of a robbery, a time-lapse of a car going down a highway and a night club.

I would like to apply a black and white filter over all of the footage to make the extra noise a better look. I will also experiment with the effects of black and white by lowering different channels of colour and intensity of certain channels and see what the outcome looks like. Along with the black and white effect, I wanted to make the aspect ration different than normal so that it conveys a more experimental and new wave style. Breaking the rules is exactly why new wave was so important for that time.  

I will be adding an extra effect on the black and white footage and that is both noise and dust/scratches. I will alternate between coloured noise and no colour noise. Switching between the two will have a good effect and make the video look even more experimental. Both of these effects will give a very authentic look to the footage, especially with the black and white it will add to the aesthetic I am trying to portray.  

The editing process took longer than I thought because I had to add all of the effects individually. 

New Wave film:

 

To conclude I feel like the final product came out well as I combined stock footage and footage that I shot on the train. I wanted to have a psychedelic and trippy video that has a very small narrative. I didn't want people to focus too much on the narrative but to focus more on the visuals and the stylistic choices that I had made. Along with the small narrative that I had towards the end of the video I wanted some of the video to be personal to me. the beginning of the clip has some key motivations that I have and want to achieve in the future. Along with the film being personal and some of the shots and zooms being unmotivated, it follows specific traits for New Wave cinema.      

4 Hour Film Challenges

Film challenges:

Editing challenge: 

Positives:

• Brief met 
• Entertaining concept
• Very creative
• Focusing on the technical aspects rather than the narrative
• Good choice in song
• The beat of the song goes well with the jarring jump cuts 

Constrictive criticism:

• Could have been longer 
• Slightly out of focus 
• Should have exported it in better quality
• Aspect ratio could have been adjusted 
• Maybe a change of location and or movement 

Unusual perspective challenge:

Positives: 

• Very unusual concept 
• Colours were a good idea
• Good camera angles 

Constructive criticism:

• Checking the focusing and the ISO
• Executing the filter idea could have been done better
• Unmotivated sounds that could have been more effective if had more thought

1920's style challenge:

Positives:

• Playful narrative 
• Good starting with a close up on what the story narrative is about
• Fits the aesthetic well with the grain
• Font fits well with the period

Constructive criticism:

• Could have had more varied shots
• Text boxes were too long and could have been shortened 
• Some more stylistic composition with the shot types could have been used
• More dialogue would have made the narrative more interesting
• Could have been more scenes to further the narrative 

Found footage music video challenge:

Positives:

• Good choice in music (fits the tone of the video)
• Nice choice of theme 
• Good shots used that portray meaning through the lyrics
• Good length 
• Good fading of audio and video

Constructive criticism:

• Could have been exported in a better quality 
• Could have examined it and focused on more than one character
• Could have used more of a variety of shots instead of reusing some of them

Editing

Early Editing:

Early editing was a lot harder than today as modern technology has improved the process. Before early editing, there weren't any cuts in the video. The first video was of a train passing a station without any narrative or cuts. Once the potential of moving image was seen The Lumiere brothers created the first-ever theatrical projection to an audience on the 22nd of March 1895 in Paris. Looking back with today's standards the motion picture is very primitive.

Once audiences saw the moving images they were horrified as they believed that the train was coming towards them. This was the first time real life was captured in video and the audience didn't know how to react. When directors decided to start the explore the potential of moving image and would cut the film and splice the two films together practically. The film would be taped together to create the cut between shots. The majority of the time editing would be linear, this means the film would be edited linear to the film timeline. The style of editing would have been linear and would have followed a story in chronological order. This means that the film was edited in time to the events happening in the film. Non - linear editing is the opposite where you show the story, not in chronological order. For example, Christopher Nolan is famous for his films being edited in a Non-Linear style. His film Memento is a clear example of this as the entire film is played from back to front.   

  

The Moviola:

The Moviola is an editing machine that would allow you to watch a playback of the film whilst in the editing process. The device was invented by Iwan Serrurier in 1924. This device originally was designed for families to project film and view it with others. The concept worked but the price of manufacturing the device cost around $600 in the 1920s which today would be $7,500. It wasn't affordable for the everyday family so little sold. They were mainly used by directors and editors rather than the general public due to its price. The device took the film industry by storm and all of the main companies at the time were buying this product as it made the editing and viewing process a lot easier. Companies like Universal Studios, Warner Brothers and Charles Chaplin Brothers all had their own and used it in all of their productions from then on.   

Offline and online editing:

Offline editing is a way of editing that is made much simpler than traditional editing. The footage used for offline editing is the footage used is what is known as 'proxy footage'. This footage is presented in an at a very low resolution, smaller file size and uses fewer data. This is why offline editing can be helpful, its quicker, more efficient and doesn't waste unnecessary data. To create this footage you create a copy of the footage you want to edit then compress it into a lower resolution to create the offline editing footage. Once the editing is complete you replace the compressed footage with the normal footage and add any effects on the new footage. Online footage was 

References: 

Advanced Video Editing, Cuvideoedit.com

LLC Revolvy, "Moviola", Revolvy.com