Chase sequence

Today in tutorial we were given the task of shooting a chase sequence that has a story to it, and this had to be shot on a mobile phone. We had to create something which has a fast paced edit. We filmed in total of 61 shots and we think that this amount of shots would be needed for a short video that will just be over a minute long.

When films have a lot of fast paced editing, they will cut to multiple shots and it will appear really quick and snappy to the viewer. By having the fast cuts the viewer will see lots of motion and it should create something which is more interesting to watch. Slower cuts means that the audience will lose interest quickly, and slow cuts will not make good pacing.

Below are some screenshots from the editing session in tutorial

As you can see from this image the timeline was still in progress at this point, and the video was only 39 seconds long. Even though there was no action in the start of the video I tried to create fast pacing and I think I had achieved this.

There was one scene in the start where there is a phone call and I cut to the shot of the character listening to the other person on the phone. This didn't make much sense because you could still hear the other character perfectly clear, so I used an effect called Bandpass filter to make the audio sound like it was coming through the other end of a phone. I think that this effect was useful and it is worth considering effects such as filters in the future.

One issue we had when filming this is that we did not consider when an actor crossed the line so in the edit this cut became confusing to watch.

The character in the above shot falls to the left of right of screen when he gets pushed against a wall. In the next shot he is on the right side of the wall.  To fix this I added a horizontal flip to the next shot, this is quite noticeable in the edit. In future this is something I will need to consider when making films.