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      Editing in film i s t he art and craft of cutting and assembling finished films .  Its   sc ene transitions, sudden sounds, quick cuts, off-screen voices, and narrative flow are just among the many terms associated with the invisible  art. The editing of a film helps the film come together as one. It also helps things being editing in, such as voiceovers and editing greenscreens. Film editors are responsible for editing films. Thelma Schoonmaker is a famous editor. She has edited the movies the Wolf of Wall Street, Goodfellas, Hugo, Shutter Island, and many more movies. Thelma Schoonmaker

     Lighting in film is   refers to the  direction, quality, source, or color of light  that shapes the subject and sets them apart from the background. Its   fundamental aspect that affects how the film looks and feels to the  audience. It creates a visual mood, atmosphere, and sense of meaning for the audience. It  guides the attention and supports the genre and mood of the film.      Five lighting techniques are basic lighting: 3-point lighting setup, soft film lighting, hard film lighting, motivated lighting, and natural film lighting. Basic lighting: 3-point lighting setup is the most basic lighting in film. It is lighting from three directions shapes your subject and sets them apart from their background. Film lighting equipment needs to face a subject from the directions: front, back, and side with a key light, fill light, and back light.      Soft film lighting is about how a scene should feel emotionall...

   This assignment is the camera movement video assignment. Camera movement is the way a camera shifts to visually narrate and shape a viewer's perspective of a scene. The purpose of this assignment is to learn about different camera movements we can use in our opening movie scene. Minerva J-G, which is me, was the camera person. I used an iphone 12 camera to record the videos. I was the director for this assignment. Lexi M., Ryan S., math teacher, and a whole class were the actors. The screenwriter was Micah G.    The technique that was the most uncomplicated demonstrating was zoom out. It was very easy to do. The camera technique that was most complicated demonstrating was trucking because I had to following the actor from the side. I had to keep up with her while trying to record her from the side. It was easy to work with my group. Iphones were used in the creation of the videos.    Zoom In Zoom in is when the camera magnifies the size of the subject in...

   This assignment is to create a storyboard with 9 camera movement techniques. With each camera movement we do, we have to create an action line, what shot size, camera angle, and camera framing it is. My team and I worked on it well together. I worked on most of the action lines, shot sizes, camera angles, and camera framing. Micah G. worked on some of the action lines and drew all of the pictures. Sage W. was sick so she did not come this week and did not get to work on this assignment.

 Camera movement is the way a camera shifts to visually narrate and shape a viewer's perspective of a scene. Camera movement is useful for building on a scene in a film. The movements can draw the attention of the view to something else or highlight an actor's performance. The person responsible for camera movement in production is the cinematographer.   Steven Spielberg is the director for the movies Ready Player One, Back to the Future, and Jurassic World: Dominion. In Jurassic World: Dominion the scene I like is when the camera is tracking Clarie's movement in the lake, when she's trying to not be found by a dinosaur.   Anthony Russo is the director for the movies Avengers: Endgame, Avengers: Infinity War, and Captain America: The Winter Soldier. The scene I love from Avengers: Endgame is when everyone comes together in the end to stop Thanos and his army. There was no camera movement when Thanos's army was running to fight, it was static.   The camera movements ...