The film establishes an off-kilter quirkiness which I found quite striking, right from its opening bout of sweeping, disjointed narration, the spoke piece, a poem of sorts seems to allude to quality in the selected footage which is both fundamentally absract and universally relatable. While indeed, no real sense of narrative or purpose is imposed on the film’s footage, the daily activities and interactions it depicts serves in some areas as a time capsule to the era and place the film was shot and in others as a reminder of the behavouiral commonality shared by humans across countries, generations and periods of time. It is interesting to note that the films rambling, at times erratic score seems to dictate the mood of the piece rather than the events depicted on screen, this was particularly notable to me when an old woman greeted a little girl in communion robes to a somewhat sinister score. While it bares little value with regard to the film’s analysis, I could not help but note Ravel’s fixation with a certain subject, a man handing out flyers on the street, seeing him incorporate various shots of the man into several sections of the film. As the film progresses, musical changes become increasingly rapid, changing shot by shot, I might note that the notion of a ‘shot’ as it is appearant in this particular sequence is significantly longer than that which i would associate with a high action scene, lingering static as it so often does in order to avoid disrupting a sense of verité which is established through Ravel’s voyeuristic shooting style and content selection.

Find the keyboard shortcuts for Premiere (hint, film-tv blog) and note four or more functions that you’ve never used before and why they may be invaluable to your editing. (Different functions to what you wrote last semester)

‘Speed Duration’

Shortcut: ‘CMD+R’

It is inevitable, at some point  in the editing process that we will need to alter the speed or duration of our footage, whether this be tostylistic effect or to shape a clip to best suit an allotted time slot. Being able to employ a shortcut to call up the speed/duration menu will save a huge amount of time in this process as well as serving as a quick way to monitor the duration of each clip in our sequence.

‘Duplicate’

Shortcut: ‘CMD+A’

This shortcut will be valuable as it will allow us to extract sections of our edited film and trial advanced editing such as colour grading on separate sequences without risking damage or confusion to the footage we have cut, it will also allow group members to edit the film on their own, and separate their own edits from the main sequence. The ‘duplicate’ short-cut could also be used to stylistic effect, allowing us to copy and layer b-roll in the film.

‘Razor’

Shortcut: ‘C’

The razor tool, in particular its short-cut will be essential when working make precise edit maximising clean and easy cutting and splicing of footage, particularly with regard to interview seuquences in which it is imperative to capture audio accurately.

‘Record Audio’

Shortcut: ‘A’

I have largely included this shortcut because I was not aware that this feature of Premiere was so easily assessable, this will however prove useful if we choose to record supplementary sound effects or narration in the post-production process.