Casablanca First Café Scene

 

Hi guys! In todays blog post I am going to be talking more about editing. An editor plays a very special role in films being made being that they do they are the ones that have to sit through and arrange the film or images they are given from the director and have to assemble it all to make a coherent story. Today it is common for films to have 50 or 100 times more footage then that will appear in the final cut. In our reading this week it talked about how the film Deadpool shot 555 hours of raw footage of a film that is just 108 minutes long. It would take 40 hours a week for 14 weeks to sit through and watch all of the raw footage. Editors are the ones that have to do this and taking even more time to select arrange it all into an edited film. Personally I could not imagine having to do all of that, sounds terrible to me! 

In the reading one of the videos that stuck out to me was Casablanca First Café Scene. In this short scene the editor used screen direction to keep the audience focused on the story. The scene starts with a long shot outside of the café which shows what the surrounding area looks like. The camera then makes it way into the café shooting from different areas of the room and gives us an idea of what this place is and the people who are there. It then focuses on the person that is singing from the start pf the scene as he is playing the piano and keeping the audience entertained with his live music performance. This scene shows how the editor just doesn't do this all by themselves but it was planned in the begging with the director and cinematographer, which allows the scene to become alive when they are all working together to make sure they have the moving images to execute the scene. 

https://youtu.be/RbDv7XXrP