assessment I Bsa 106 essay

Essay writing for the First assessment 

Intro:

With the growing number of movies these days, One’s eyes get attracted by how stories are put together in a visual form and they are well organized. Film editing is a crucial element for movie making. Various techniques and tricks have been invented to help filmmaking work easy and efficient among which I’ll be briefly discussing in this essay.

George Melies (8^th December 1861-21 January 1938) is a French-based illusionist and film director who was an early Pioneer to invent many technical and narrative developments in regards to films.  He is considered as a father of special effects, illusionist and film director. His techniques involve multiple exposures, substitution splices, time-lapse photography, fade-out, slow motion, dissolves, and hand-painted color.

Between 1899 to 1912, Melies had made more than 400 films, among these best ones combines illusion effects, science fiction, fantasy, horror, comic burlesque, and pantomime to express the core idea of his shots in a very playful and absorbed fashioned way. He is also considered as the first person to introduce storyboards in his film and especially specialized in depicting extreme human body using camera shot techniques Some of his movies include As diverse as Cleopatra, Le Christ Marchant surles eaux, Le Voyage a Travers I'm impossible, Hamlet.

George Melies has inspired many film directors and artists around the world. His ideas and works are still been carried by almost every film director and editor. Visual effects and special effects are the most popular these days. Highly successful movies like Avatar, Harry Potter, The Hobbit and Avengers etc. use a wide range of visual effects and special techniques that make a movie photorealistic. The credit somehow goes to Melies for coming up with these incredible ideas that have led newcomers to explore more in the film sector. Among which the most commonly used techniques are dissolves, fadeout, multiple exposers, jumpcut, intercut and more importantly storyboarding.

In my point of view, Jumpcut, Intercut, and Multiple exposers techniques seem to be a very creative and artistic way of expressing captured camera shots in videos which I will be using them in my future projects. In-depth jump cut refers to the techniques where two sequential shots of the same subjects are captured from camera positions that vary only slightly. This subsequently helps editors to draw viewers’ attention.

Similarly, Multi exposer, a state where two different shots with different exposer are combined together to appear as a single shot. It can put the dynamic range to my character and environment.

A storyboard is another fundamental aspect of movie making. It is an overall representation of a storyline in a very short and roughly illustrated sequence. This helps projects to be organized and well planned. This is considered as an essential element for 2D, 3D movie makings.

As a first-year student of Animation, The previously mentioned techniques have highly influenced me to work on my future projects and it would be appropriate to use it in my 2D animation short videos next semester. I’ll be using storyboarding for most animation to illustrate and develop story concept. These editing skills would make my video transition go smooth and supports my stories to appear real.