Mutley Eugenius
01-05-2010, 09:53 PM
I had to shoot a wedding two days ago, and of course, once you shoot it you have to edit it. But nobody wants you to cut anything out of the ceremony, so you have to leave it as one whole take. So everybody's going to be glued to your slow camera moves, slow zooms, hand held walking around trying to find the right angles, etc. Essentially, your entire searching-thought-process will be immortalized on film for the rest of time until the divorce.
While I was waiting for the ceremony I took a few shots of people's faces while they were just staring at nothing, and I made sure I had a few happy faces. They didn't know was filming them.
However, later while I was shooting the actual wedding, I had a fantastic idea. I was standing by the audience and shooting the couple, then I did a screamingly fast zoom out, and a slam-pan to the audience, and then I proceeded to shoot about one minute of slow pans over the audiences faces, and then I slammed back on to the couple again, resuming my slow zoom moves. I did this a couple times, and then I took it back to the studio.
Using SpeedEdit, I was able to quickly cut the audience pan section from the first steady frame to the last steady frame, eliminating the radical pan/zooms. Then I dragged this video section down to become an overlay layer, carefully leaving the soundtrack unaltered. I went back to the source clips and trimmed off the fast pan/zooms from the ends & this left me with about two seconds of missing footage between each part. All I had to do then, which was my fantastic idea, was to slow the audience pan clip down to 95% speed which made it about 5 seconds longer, and then center it between the two ends of the clips above, then I dragged it back up and dropped in place, forming a 1.5 second fade at each end. When you play it, it looks like a 2 camera shot, because an audience pan at 95% looks just like an audience pan at 100%, because nobody is really moving at all, and it just looks fine. Any other moves I wanted to eliminate, I just had to use the happy faces which I had shot before, faded in and out, and I had one of the nicest wedding edits I have ever done.
So I thought would share that idea with you all.
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Q: Which way does time move? A: Clockwise.
While I was waiting for the ceremony I took a few shots of people's faces while they were just staring at nothing, and I made sure I had a few happy faces. They didn't know was filming them.
However, later while I was shooting the actual wedding, I had a fantastic idea. I was standing by the audience and shooting the couple, then I did a screamingly fast zoom out, and a slam-pan to the audience, and then I proceeded to shoot about one minute of slow pans over the audiences faces, and then I slammed back on to the couple again, resuming my slow zoom moves. I did this a couple times, and then I took it back to the studio.
Using SpeedEdit, I was able to quickly cut the audience pan section from the first steady frame to the last steady frame, eliminating the radical pan/zooms. Then I dragged this video section down to become an overlay layer, carefully leaving the soundtrack unaltered. I went back to the source clips and trimmed off the fast pan/zooms from the ends & this left me with about two seconds of missing footage between each part. All I had to do then, which was my fantastic idea, was to slow the audience pan clip down to 95% speed which made it about 5 seconds longer, and then center it between the two ends of the clips above, then I dragged it back up and dropped in place, forming a 1.5 second fade at each end. When you play it, it looks like a 2 camera shot, because an audience pan at 95% looks just like an audience pan at 100%, because nobody is really moving at all, and it just looks fine. Any other moves I wanted to eliminate, I just had to use the happy faces which I had shot before, faded in and out, and I had one of the nicest wedding edits I have ever done.
So I thought would share that idea with you all.
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Q: Which way does time move? A: Clockwise.