Task 3 - Developing Editing Techniques

George Melies was the historical filmmaker who came across 'In-camera editing' completely by accident while as he was filming his film 'The Vanishing Lady' and his camera stopped working for a moment. In-camera editing is a technique of production, which the camera operator shoots the shots in the exact order of what the filmmaker wants his/her audience to see. In-Camera editing was used a great amount in the early days of film making before the use 'splicing' became a lot easier way to edit. The film that is being made is simply "edited" just by simply turning on and off the camera.

Pros and Cons of In-Camera Editing

PROS

• It gives you time to change the setting of where you would like to film.
• It makes you think about the footage that you want to capture for the film you are making.
• It's less time consuming when it comes to editing 
• It gives your actors more time to practice what they are going to do before you start filming

CONS

• If you end up making a mistake there is no way that you can change it. 
• The use of communication 
• The timing
• You can only take one clip and you have to stick with in. You can not change it.

The pros that can be seen in my In-Camera editing film is that it gave us time to move from one place to another, inside the school. Another pro is that it is less time consuming when it comes to editing because all we had to do was stop the camera when we captured the part that we wanted.

There were a few cons in our work too. one of the cons was when we ended up filming two different clips in the wrong place so when you look at it, it looks very confusing. another Con is with the timing. As I was working on the camera I did not press the stop button on time at one point so the camera is on the actor longer then what it really needed to be.