Multiple Points of View and Parallel Editing
Parallel editing Types of editing
The Godfather, baptism scene http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1CDlBLvc3YE
Parallel Editing The baptism scene from The Godfather is an example of parallel editing. What two different stories are we being shown at the same time? Why did the director, Francis Ford Coppola, choose these two, very different, sequences? What effect does the parallel edit have on the viewer
Multiple points of view Types of editing
Split screen: 500 Days of Summer http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r-xJ15AN9ts
Split screen: Thomas Crown Affair http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N1QopQw1IrA
Multiple Perspectives Describe how the film 500 Days of Summer used split screen to tell a story from multiple perspectives. How is this different to the method used in The Thomas Crown Affair? Which is better? Find 1 example of Parallel editing and one example of split screen Upload these examples onto your weebly Discuss how the editing effect helped the viewer understand the plot
Taking this into next week You will be learning the green screen in your first two lessons You will then be putting everything you learnt from your MC and split screen, along with character building and story set (next week) into a script. Within your script you will need to add details such as, accent's of characters, the correct dialogue, correct location, discuss the weather and sounds in the back and set up a scene pulling everything from the past 2 weeks together