developing editing techniques

In Camera Editing

In camera editing is a technique that was used firstly by George Melies, who would film individual shots of his magic tricks and would film them in order at which he would be doing the trick. This technique was used a lot in the early cinema and made splicing easier.



We created this short clip by using in camera editing to make it the right length, we did this by taking simple shots and stopping the camera, then we would move the camera into another position and do another shot to continue the video. The difficult things about this was getting everybody rehearsed and making sure that the camera will go into the right positions so that you get the right shots. This was also difficult as everybody has there own things to do and trying to get them done at the same time was harder than doing them all separately.  The good thing about this video is that it was something that nobody else thought of and we used old films styles e.g. silent movies. We used this technique throughout the remainder of our short film and i think we could of improved this by editing this so that it would of been black and white and could of had music in the background. One thing that we could of also improved on would have been to avoid for people to have to watch the actors wait to start performing.

The pros of in camera editing is that it is cheap to make and produce, it is also quick to make and easy to scrip and it is better filming for shorter films. The cons of in camera editing are that you cant rewind the video camera, and that it is harder to get the right positions on the camera. Another con is also that you cannot interpret your own ideas into the video as you only get one shot so cannot change anything during the shot.