Last week I began by showing a few humorous videos to demonstrate how so much of a movie's tone or even content can be a result purely of the editing. Editors can take pieces of performances and string them together in such a way to create a performance the actor never actually gave (this can be good or bad; bad performances have been saved by clever editors and great performances have been ruined by bad editing). The context of scenes or shots can be completely changed. There is an old saying in the film world that says that a movie is written three times: first as a screenplay, then re-written during production, and then re-written in the editing.
The videos I showed are all fake trailers that take footage from classic movies and make them seem like they come from a completely different type of movie. The videos I showed were included two children's films made to look like horror films:
'Mary Poppins' re-cut to look like a horror movie.
'Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory' re-cut to look like a horror film.
And an actual horror movie made to look like an uplifting family film:
Stephen King's 'It' as a family film.
And a brutal, bleak war film advertised as if it were a comedy:
'Saving Private Ryan' as a comedy.
After that we did a 'Jeopardy'-style quiz game focusing on the vocabulary terms from a few weeks ago.
We then broke into groups. Lucas and Daniel G. finished editing the commercial they shot last week (I'll post it soon). The other two groups came up with ideas for commercials and we began filming one of them. We'll film the other one this week.
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