Film editing/Analyzing film dailies
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This disk is huge
"24 Unedited Scenes"
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Overview vs. dailies
On the disk called "24 Unedited Scenes", there are two folders. Inside both folders are dailies but one is overview movies of the dailies and the other is the actual dailies.
Never edit the overview movies. You will not be able to create "L-Cuts" from the overview movies. |
A message to budding directors
Hopefully, the first thing that you notice is the actors have memorized their lines and know their movement before the cameras begin to roll. When you shoot your own movies, compare your raw footage with the footage from Hollywood. With your movies, are the actors still memorizing their lines when you begin to film. This is WRONG, WRONG, WRONG!
The goal is to get a natural performance from the actors. Therefore, most amateur film directors encourage their actors to improvise. This is WRONG, WRONG, WRONG. Actors cannot relax until they have memorized their lines and can say the lines without thinking. If the actor is still trying to remember all of his lines, he can never feel comfortable. | |
Loan only
Ops! Currently, this DVD-Data disk is no longer for sale. The company which sold this disk no longer sells to the public. I still have a few copies. Therefore, once you have completed the lesson with "Follow Dave" Editing Workshop CD, I will loan you this disk if you promise to return it in one month. As far as I know, this disk is currently the only one available in the world which has a reasonably good selection of unedited scenes for you to edit with Final Cut Pro or Adobe Premiere. (You might try Avid Free but some people have had trouble loading this program.) Until there are scenes available from another vendor, I will loan you this disks... but only after you have completed the previous lessons. |
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