Today’s Plan:
- Montage
- Opening Shot
- Quick Shoot
- Quick Review of Exporting Files in Premiere
- Homework
Montage
I’d like to open today reviewing two fundamental elements of cinematography: the montage and the opening shot.
Let’s start with montages. A short video for some inspiration.
- Compress time: tell a story
- Joke delivery (use of titling)
- Compress time: training
- Weave and juxtapose
- Repetition of a common theme
- Compress time: Geschalt [pieces left for an audience to unpack]
- Expansive, Zoom out, collection of varied elements that add up, attempt to capture a totality
- Abstract, rhythm of life, little details, guided meditation
- Free association, cataloguing
- Intellectual montage, ideas, theme, place odd things next to each other to force a connection
And here’s a link with 8 tips for sequencing montages.
Sample montage #1.
Sample montage #2.
Opening Shot
Note: check the time, this might wait until later. Studiobinder on opening shots. How to set the emotional tone and suggest an entire them in a single frame/short sequence.
Quick Review of Exporting Files in Premiere
Go to File > Export. If you aren’t overly concerned with video quality, then you should change the export file format to MPEG4 (.mp4). This will lead to a much smaller, more manageable file size. Also, do not press the highlighted “queue” button, as this will attempt to open another Adobe product.
Homework
By next Wednesday, you and your group need to have recorded your interview footage. I will create team folders in this Google Drive folder. You can upload all your video and audio assets there so the entire team has access to them.
Next Wednesday and Friday we will work on how to synch, cut, edit, enhance these assets in class.
