Banana Phone Editing Task

This is the video from the editing task where we had to include ::::

• Film someone through a monitor window
• Cloning shot
• Depth of field shot
• Reverse shot
• Wheelchair tracking shot
• Lego stop motion
• Split Screen
• Selective colour
• Glow effect titles

I also used this task to practice my photoshop work, which I know will be needed for the main practical task of our group music videos. I created what would be the thumbnail for the banana phone video but sadly the video is copyrighted and I cant actually set it as the custom thumbnail for the  video I edited and uploaded. I merged a banana with an old 90's phone, i chose the phone to be a big brick phone because i knew it would work better with the aesthetic of a banana to mold into it using the tools like the cloning tool, history brush and an eraser with it hardness down to about 10%. Creating this final product, it ios not the best but it was not the main aim for this task and it was only to remind me of my skills using the photoshop tools and i also didnt really want to spend more than 45minutes on it.

What i learnt from the new shots and editing techniques in the task...

From the shooting technique of filming someone through a monitor i saw that on a bigger scale this could be a very interesting technique to use, say rather than a camera monitor but with an iPad or some form of large screen with video viewing capabilities on it where the subject you are filming can hold it up in front of their face or something. 

The cloning shot was interesting and understanding the technicalities of it was useful. Through the editing process i understood why it was so important to keep the camera exactly still for all the shot you were going to do  in that frame of setting and then learning how to crop with up to three videos around the frame to show the clones of people in one shot.

In retrospect the depth of field task did not work properly, i think everyone in the class found it difficult and it may be partly down to the camera and how cropped the framing is on it to try and work with and then also it is probably to do with a setting we tried to film on the playground where there is a bit too much curvature to what was supposed to be "flat".

Our reverse shot worked really well and i think this was down to the directing of the shot, getting ben to sing everything backwards made the lip movement work so instead of starting with "ring ring..." he started by saying "Phone Banana" and moving backwards and jumping over the bin (which was physically an accomplishment) and saying the "ring rings". Once i was editing this task and reversed so it played like we filmed it not backwards it almost looked too good like it wasn't reversed; the only spot where you can tell (which i think is a good thing) is where Ben jumps over the bin.

The tracking shot using the wheelchair worked really well and it came out pretty smooth considering the ground was a bit bumpy, the camera was handheld and when i was filming to make it more cinematic i held the camera over the edge of the wheelchair hanging it a few inches up from the ground and use the flip screen i was able to see the framing of my shot even when it was such a low angle. I also used the tracking shot, because it was so long, as my clip for the split screen editing technique. this is where i split the screen into three, i think this just makes a cool looking aspect to the video and gages a viewers eye. I did this split screen through cropping the same clip three times across three video tracks, copy and pasting the clip and then crop each one to fill a third of the frame.

We shot our lego stop motion, just taking pictures after every little movement of the characters and the lego environment, this worked well to give a smoothness to the edit of the stop motion, also in the editing process in Premiere Pro i zoomed in on a few photos where "action" was happening, like when Hulk smashes the house.

We used the selective colour effect on a spare shot we took which would have been used for a reverse shot, this selective colour is done through the effect in colour correction and it is called "leave colour" where you choose the colour you want to keep and then play with the effect aspects to make the rest black and white.

Glow effect on the titles is done again just through using the effects tools on premiere pro on title stills that you make in the software. this adds a bit more to the title s than just the straight edges.