Week1 1/9/2015

Lam Sin Yi   53901203

Week1 1/9/2015

It was the first lesson of Video editing.  It made me quite interested and excited in it because I can learn how to use different video editing program and know how to evaluate a video or film professionally.

Although it was the first lesson, professor taught us lots of new ideas about video. Firstly, there are some that I had quite strong impression.  There was an idea that, joining two shots together, they can create a third idea.  For example, two shots have different idea inside, but if you join them together, it may mean another story.  Just like, A+B=C.

Secondly, professor showed us a video that, the setting and facial expression are not the most important thing to create a video, the point is how is your video taking skills.  For example, if you shot a man looking at a baby and laugh, he is a kind man.  However, if you shot a man looking at a bikini girl, and laugh, he is a bad man.

Thirdly, in the lesson professor mentioned that there are three types of video.  They are documentary, narrative and experimental.  Documentary is about real event, and reality.  Narrative is about story and fiction.  Experimental is about individual subjection act of one person.  Experimental is a very new idea for me.  And I have great interest in it.  I think it gives the audiences a large imagination space which is very special.

Fourth, professor showed us a old movie, which is a woman killed by a man in the bathroom.  I learnt how beat, rhythm and pacing works.  For example, the video maker took the water ran away though the whole.  That means the woman was dying, life was leaving.  And the music built tension also.

Finally, professor showed us a movie called LA VIE EN ROSE.  I appreciate the flow of the movie that at the beginning the woman thinks her lover is alive but finally the film used the expression of other actors to showed that the man was died.  And the woman ran to the stage and told the world her painful story.  I think it is a fantastic movie which I would like to watch after class.

I think I have a fresh idea about this course, I hope I can learn more afterwords.