Film editing/Analyzing film dailies/Open The Door

Table of Contents

This school is:: Narrative Film Production

The course is:: Basic film editing (editing a dramatic conversation)

This lesson is:: Analyzing film dailies - What can you learn from film dailies?

The pages of this lesson are:

1. Lesson summary - Analyzing & editing film dailies

2. Pop quiz - Trivia from "24 Unedited Scenes"

- 2 points

24 Unedited Scenes Disk

Scene: "Out for a walk" ← Funny, short, needs matte painting

Scene: "The Assignment" ← Long and intense

Scene: "Ice Cream" ← Long but simple

12 scenes from the family reunion

Scene: "Taking Notes" ← A basic scene

Scene: "Morning Coffee" ← A basic scene

Scenes about Amy ← Good practice

Scenes about Jason ← Simple but good practice

Scene: "Morning Surprise" ← Needs 3D animation

Scene: "Doctor, Doctor!" ← Needs sound F/X and music

Scene: "The Girl and the Golden Jewel" ← Needs F/X, voice over, sound

Scene: "Wedding Bells" ← Funny, old, poor color, only 12fps

Scene: "The Big Bad Bell" ← A bit odd

Scene: "Open The Door" ← Totally weird, MOS - even needs dialog!!!

"24 Unedited Scenes"
from the
Star Movie Shop

Scene:
"Open the Door"

"Open the Door"

This is a weird scene from a kids TV show filmed in Canada which comes from a TV show in Japan.

The location

Somewhere in the shopping districts of Japan.

The characters

The evil princess comes with her band of evil characters to go shopping.

The story

I have no idea. You have to make it up!

The challenge

No script, no dialog, missing animation, needs lots of sound effects and music.

Hey, this could be fun!

Edit this scene

Order the disk

Order the disk from the Star Movie Shop. Remember, if you have earned enough points at the Wikiversity Film School, the disk is free. If you do not have enough points, the Star Movie Shop will eagerly accept PayPal. To contact the Star Movie Shop, you simply click here.

The Overview Movie

Start by looking at the overview movie for "Open the Door". (This QuickTime movie file is in a different folder than the film dailies. Don't get the two folders confused.) The overview movie shows you the important parts of the film dailies in chronological order.

Transfer the dailies

Copy all the film dailies (not the overview movie) to your hard drive. If necessary, convert the dailies to whatever format your editing program prefers. Import all these clips into your editing program.

Have a party

At a party, ask all the guests to decide what the story is about. Then have each of the people create one of the voices of the actors. Record their dialog. Then edit the scene.

Edit the scene

You must edit the picture, add the recorded dialog, and create the sound effects and music.

Submit your finished scene: This scene is worth 10 points. Email me when you are finished.

Analyze the Dailies

MOS - without sound: On this disk, some of the scenes needed dialog replacement. But in this scene, there is absolutely no recorded dialog. It was filmed totally without sound.

When you do dialog replacement (re-recording the dialog back in the studio), you have lots of problems matching the sound recorded on the movie set vs. recorded in the studio.

So why not replace all the dialog. Then you have perfect sound and a perfect match. This is the way many motion pictures are made. Look at "The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly."