Journal entry Jan 28

We have been in the film making class for about three weeks coming on four weeks. We’ve talked about a decent amount of thing ranging from how film is made to how to do certain cuts. At the beginning of the year, we were talking about certain film sizes like thirty five mm, sixteen mm, and eight mm film. We learned about how certain Film lengths were being feed through a projector. Along with that, we learned that a shutter has three protrusion that are evenly spread about the shutter. The shutter spins and passes over the light right when the slide is changing, causing the smooth transitions when the film is feed through by a wheel past the light. After we learned about the early day projectors, we started taking about why and how cut scenes are important. We talked about how cut scene can be messed up pretty badly. What makes a cut scene good and how to avoid some common mistakes. We talk about a lot of different types of cut scenes. We talked about the jump cut, that’s when the focus object jumps and before they land the scene changes to a different perspective or a whole different scene all together. A fade – in or fade – out just has the scene cut with a fade effect coming in or out of a frame. A direct cut is a a straight cut to the next scene, no effect. An iris wipe is when the screen turns black except for a smaller circle that, usually follows the main character. A ripple dissolve is a cut scene that an effect like water rippling away when you throw a stone in water. The most recent thing that we have been doing was downloading the above creative cloud, when done, we will be able to edit our clips.