Editing 101 Back to Basics: To Desaturate or Not to Desaturate |
What can I say about this? Oversaturated footage tends to be muddy, and yet there's loads of videos released that are in desperate need of desaturation. Of course desaturation takes additional time,... Posted by on Sun, 17 Aug 2008 13:59:00 GMT |
Editing: Shifting the Assemblage Point |
First you must know what is your purpose in editing, what are you trying to do. My purpose is extremely clear to me. It is to force a shift of the Assemblage Point. Shifting the Assemblage Point is... Posted by on Sat, 16 Aug 2008 10:50:00 GMT |
Directing: Communicating an Aesthetic |
Knowing how to direct your cameras for a live concert shoot comes from experience in editing many videos. Once you know what you want in the final edited video you begin to know what to communicate t... Posted by on Sun, 27 Jul 2008 12:50:00 GMT |
Thinking in Retrograde |
One of my most frequently asked questions is how do I decide what direction to take the editing? With each video this is a process that starts with seeing the finished video in my mind and then pieci... Posted by on Sat, 26 Jul 2008 12:20:00 GMT |
The Journey Begins |
When I was a student of music composition at New England Conservatory, I asked my teacher, Tom McKinley, what his goal was for his students. He said it was to teach us how to develop an artistic styl... Posted by on Thu, 24 Jul 2008 08:51:00 GMT |