Student Led Facilitation Session19 February 2013

Video for ChangeChapter 5: Editing

“A film is born three times. First in the writing of the script, once again in the shooting, and finally in the editing.”

French filmmaker Robert Bresson

Cizek, Katerina. “Editing for Advocacy.” In Video for Change, 168. Ann Arbor: Pluto Press, 2005.

Who is your audience?Speaking to your audience

Respecting the people about/with whom you’re making the film

Communicating your message

Navigating ethical concerns

Society of St. Andrew – Video 1

Cizek, Katerina. “Editing for Advocacy.” In Video for Change, 170. Ann Arbor: Pluto Press, 2005.

Music

Gives the proper emotion and pace to your video

Background music

Be careful about copyrighting!

Have you thought about music?

TransitionsTalked about it in lab – cross dissolve

Nothing crazy or too flashy – something fluid

Occasionally nice to fade to black or white in between different parts in the film

Film Structure

3 parts:1. Opening and introduction of the problem2. Discusses the problem and ends with the climax3. Recap of what was discussed and ends with a “call to action”

Intro to Problem Discuss/Climax Recap/Call to Action

ITN Orlando

“It’s very hard, because when you work in human rights, it’s not like you get used to [graphic, violent situations], but as an editor, even if you have a hard time watching these images, you have to do it. Sometimes you have to remind yourself that people are not accustomed to that kind of story – to seeing those kinds of images. You always have to try and put yourself in someone else’s shoes.”

Cizek, Katerina. “Editing for Advocacy.” In Video for Change, 181. Ann Arbor: Pluto Press, 2005.

Linear vs. Non-linear Editing

LinearOld video editing processImages must be assembled in order, from beginning to endChanges in order or length of segments cannot be made easilyInserted sequences must exactly match a removed sequence

Non-linearEditing performed on a computerImages can be assembled and reassembled in any orderEasier for editing

Ideas for ActionChapters 8 & 9

Whose side is the government on?“By repressive state apparatuses, Althusser means the military and police forces and the legal system. These state-run institutions are prepared to use violence and other forms of force whenever necessary and exist to make sure that dominant interests are served.”

UC Davis Student Protest

Pittsburgh G20

Necessary or not? Or abuse of power?

Kaufman, Cynthia. “Whose Side is the Government on?” In Ideas for Action, 214. Cambridge: South End Press, 2003.

What is power?Foucault

“…argued that power operates to create us in deep ways: our innermost selves are always wrapped up in operations of power.”“Foucault calls the power of the modern state ‘panoptic,’ a concept taken from the ‘panopticon,’ an ideal prison imagined by the 18th century British political philosopher Jeremy Bentham. Bentham said that the ideal prison would have at its center a guard tower from which each cell could be seen. Prisoners would never know when they were being looked at and would end up internalizing the gaze of the guard because being watched was a constant possibility.”

Kaufman, Cynthia. “Nations, Bureaucracies, Organization, and Utopia.” In Ideas for Action, 238-239. Cambridge: South End Press, 2003.

Panopticon

National Unity“…sense of belonging in a personally meaningful way to a larger community.”

Flying flags after 9/11 – symbolized either a country that was deeply hurt, or a sign that the nation was ready to fight to defend itself

Kaufman, Cynthia. “Nations, Bureaucracies, Organization, and Utopia.” In Ideas for Action, 227. Cambridge: South End Press, 2003.

Lack of National Unity

Rwandan genocide of 1994

500,000-1,000,000 were slaughtered

Western press didn’t share most stores on the situation

East Timor

Utopia

“Marx focused on capitalist exploitation as the core of social oppression. Implicit in his philosophy is the idea that, as class antagonisms disappear, people will find ways to live well together. For this reason, Marx never wrote much about what his ideal society would look like, and he never analyzed the kinds of problems that would develop in a society that wasn’t class divided.”

Is it possible to have an ideal society? Can it exist? Why or why not?

Kaufman, Cynthia. “Nations, Bureaucracies, Organization, and Utopia.” In Ideas for Action, 236. Cambridge: South End Press, 2003.

Kaufman, Cynthia. “Whose Side is the Government on?” and “Nations, Bureaucracies, Organization, and Utopia.” In Ideas for Action, 211-250. Cambridge: South End Press, 2003.

Cizek, Katerina. “Editing for Advocacy.” In Video for Change, 168-208. Ann Arbor: Pluto Press, 2005.

http://www.4dancers.org/category/music-notes

http://multimedia.journalism.berkeley.edu/tutorials/premiere_pro_cs6/transitions/

http://newsjunkiepost.com/2011/05/02/privacy-freedom-and-the-all-seeing-eye-the-panopticon/

http://www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2012/08/the-two-american-flags