1/19/16 Eric Lesch

We started off the class with two objectives. One being analyze how editing affects storytelling in film, and the other being evaluate how editing choices accomplish deliberate functions. After we went over the objectives on the board, Rivers played us a video essay similar to the one's that we will be creating later on in the marking period. The video talked about how text messages have been hard to show in films. Over the years actors would read the text "out loud like idiots" or say that the phone does not work. Now there is a new idea in film making that makes it much easier to keep track of the messages in real time and it saves lots of money for the director. They now display text right on the screen as the message pops up on their phone.
We then discuss after the video how it worked and we broke it down.
On the board we put up things that the video did.  The five things we said were:

• Show footage to support an overall idea 
• Creating a voiceover to provide analysis
• Excellent diction
• No awkward pauses
• Matched up with evidence

After we are done talking about the video essay we begin to analyze an image from the shower scene from the popular Hitchcock film Psycho. It was an image of the women holding her hand out in the shower sort of distracted by something in the room. We then use mise en scene to evaluate it fully. Hitchcock then explains how editing is not just putting clips together, but how you assemble them. For the last part of class, we were told to count the amount of cuts of the Psycho and Good Fellas. It was more of a fun part of class, but we did learn that there are many ways you can provide great film with or without using cuts.