Global Kids' Digital Media Initiative

Thursday was interesting. The first 15 minutes were given to us to finish filming but since my group was done filming we started to do the editing with an Apple application called iMOVIE. Sadly, we couldn't figure out how to do it, so that 15 minutes went to waste. But it wasn't completely useless, you learn through trial and failure--right? Anyway, the rest of the workshop Chris and Meredith led. We watched scenes or clips from different movies to see how we can make good use of the editing process or cutting scenes. We learned about the 180 degree rule and why it is applied when filming. I guess it makes sense to keep everything in one half of a circle--and the reason was to establish space. That was one of the things we were told to keep in mind when editing. The three things were: space, time, and to establish meaning.

I think it was good that we got to see the different effects that cutting can have on the mood of the film--because that is pretty important. I guess, in our PSA's we might not want to cut back and forth too much because that might kill the seriousness of the mood--but maybe if someone is making a PSA that's more entertaining then they may want to do that. I really want to learn more about the actual editing process since that will come in useful when it comes to finalizing the PSA, but we will need a lot more time to actually do that...since an hour is just too small amount of time.