2. Time remapping is a term that refers to how you change and remap
time during the editing process. These techniques include anti
narratives and meta references. by using anti narratives, you create a
disruption of the narrative like a freeze frame, slow motion and thought
tracks. These can be used for a number of reasons to either high light
an important object or symbol, to introduce a character using slow
motion or freeze frames focuses on the small parts of the character and
their personality. An example of slow motion could be
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ez2LG4t-xg . This is a clip from the
film 300, with an example of slow motion. Slow motion is used
effectively here to show the power and status of the main man fighting.
The mixture of slow motion and normal pace again emphasises the
action of what's going on.
3. To experiment with these ideas of hyper reality we created some shots
displaying slow motion and freeze frames - to make it post modern we
used a hint of intertextuality from the film mean girls.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_5g8tjWwAeg In this, slow motion is
used to enhance the way they strut themselves, the hair bouncing and
the power they think they have around everyone. We decided to create
similar scenes in a homage way. I thought that the idea of hair flicking
in slow motion would look great as it would slow down time and allow
the audience time to understand the personality of the character in a
different way. Obviously portraying a stuck up character. I felt that this
would be effective in time mapping as you can create a nice cocktail of
fast and slow motion between hair flicks.
5. For a freeze frame we thought that it would be
effective to shoot ourselves walking through double
doors. This worked out well as the doors have an
impact which blows the wind through the hair which
creates a nice freeze frame. Again to show the
characters personality. One scene that we filmed
was the camera following over my shoulder and then
me turning round with the dialogue ‘ can you stop
following me ‘ this breaks the forth wall nicely as she
is clearly on her own and is talking to the
camera/audience, who the character thinks she is
better than.
6. Editing…
We uploaded our footage to premier, coding the good bad and ok clips that
we filmed. We selected a clip and put it on the timeline, we clicked on
opacity, and changed it to time remapping, speed. We then selected the
‘’cool bit’’ of our footage that we wanted to slow down and make more
dramatic. Using the pen tool we selected the beginning of us walking
through the door, and the end when we were close to the camera, by the
holding down command and the pen tool. This created our key frames. We
then made the speed slower in the section between the two key frames to
50% by dragging the yellow line down, in contrast to the other bits of the
scene at 100%. The key frames are split in time remapping, so that you can
create a speed ramp. making the time remapping more gradual, and evenly
go down the percentages. After we had down this we clicked on the blue
handles to make a Bezier curve, we moved it round to match the line to
make the motion more natural, I really liked the effect of the slow motion
and learnt how to edit this well in this exercise and would like to use this in
my final trailer.
