For my first Prototype I chose to take a famous movie scene and make my own edits. The clip that I chose to use was the scene from the original Jurassic Park movie. Fortunately enough I was able to find a clip from that movie without any background music. This was important for my editing because music and instrumentals play vital roles in the editing process. The reason why I chose this as my first Prototype is to test out different editing techniques that I have learned during my research. I have learned that editing may be the most important part of filmmaking. The editor has total control over how the film is supposed to be perceived and received by the audience. You can take raw footage and make it to completely different genres buy specific coloring techniques and music selections.
Ultimately I hoped to see if my editing techniques would be successful. Since I was able to find a clip without any background music I was able to have complete control over the edit of the film. The original clip was meant to be light, funny, and not too serious. My goal was to take the scene and completely change The genre and overall feel of this clip. I chose to give this scene a darker and more thriller like feel. In order to do this I darken the scene by playing with the saturation and exposure I also added more blues and greens to the color to try to make it feel more dark and eerie. I Also found a instrumental off YouTube that was made for horror and thriller movies. By adding those edits I was able to change the overall feel of the scene.
During class I was able to receive some useful feedback on my prototype. Firstly many of my peers agreed that I was successful in changing this genre of the clip. They felt that the colors and music was helpful which was exactly what I changed so I knew that I was successful with those edits. One piece of advice that was given to me was to be careful with my exposure use. There were some scenes were it was too dark to make out what was in the actual clip. For example there was a shot of a helicopter flying over the ocean but it was hard to tell that it was flying over the ocean because the exposure was so low and it was too dark for that specific shot. Going forward I will be mindful to edit each shot accordingly and not make one overall edit to the clips, but I’ll be intentional with the exposure, colors, saturation, etc.