Analysis #6

Consider Sandra’s lecture “Directing Actors” and describe at least a couple of points that you took away from it (even if you’re not the director).

Sandra’s lecture provided practical advice on how to direct actors. She pointed out that the actors will be doing their own thing, and it is important to keep them motivated on set to get the best out of them on the day.

Ensuing that the director is communicating their vision in a way that makes sense to the actor is very important to ensure that everyone is working towards the same goal while shooting.

This was very helpful to keep in mind on our shooting day, as it was a long shoot and keeping the actors happy was a priority. Each had their own process for preparing for their scenes, and we had to concentrate on our own work to capture their best performances.

In this clip screened in the lecture from the Coen brothers’ ‘Blood Simple‘ describe what is happening in terms of the edits specifically in terms of the audio and video. Also name the different kinds of audio you can hear.

In this clip from Blood Simple, there are lots of elements making up the soundscape. Electrical ‘humming’, chairs creaking, papers shuffling, crickets calling from outside, footsteps, water running from the bathroom, etc. These are all realistic noises one might expect to hear in this environment, however I would assume make sound effects would have been added in post production.

The visual editing is pretty standard in this scene. Use of ‘J cuts’ makes the conversation between the two characters easy to follow.
Find the keyboard shortcuts for Adobe Premiere and note two or more functions that you’ve never used before that may be invaluable to editing.

– Duplicate Ctrl+Shift+/
– Paste Attributes Ctrl+Alt+V
– Group Ctrl+G

 

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