Level 3 Media MEKKI

UNIT 16  TASK 1    What is editing? Editing is audio or a video which is changed to help create an interest when  watching a movie, for example, a montage would be used to compress time. Parallel  Editing             (http://userhome.brooklyn.cuny.edu/anthro/jbeatty/COURSES/glossary.htm) Parallel editing is the technique  in which you show  multiple scenes  that usually  occur  all together  but in different locations .  This use is really effective as it does not exactly show a story playing out the comparison of two events  gives further meaning to the actions shown. The comparison is reinforced by keeping consistency in the shot lengths and distances between the two narratives. One example that you see on the top of the page of parallel editing is in The Godfather when someone is crosscut with a series of murders. The effect is that these are occurring at the same time. Th...

Gertie the Dinosaur. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-_c15oS5i5I)   The drawing of Gertie the Dinosaur was made by a man called  Windsor McCay who was one of the pioneers of early animated characters.  McCay was a cartoonist from the United States who created animations such as Dreams of the Rarebit Fiend and Little Nemo in Slumberland. He was known to had been one of the most stunning visual artists of his generation.   Thus, in 1913 McCay began to animate "Gertie The Dinosaur". McCay enlisted the help of a young neighbor, John A. Fitzsimmons. Fitzsimmons traced the backgrounds onto rice paper, and McCay did all the drawings of Gertie. Ten thousand drawings were inked on rice paper and then mounted on cardboard for registration. By mounting them on cardboard, McCay was able to flip the drawings through a primitive machine to check his work.   McCay premiered  Gertie The Dinosaur  at the Palace in Chicago on  2nd...