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Editing Analysis

The scene I decided to analyze was from the movie Rocky 3. In this scene, Rocky is a heavyweight champion and has his first fight with Clubber Lang, who beats him by knockout. Rocky is distracted because his trainer had just had a heart attack in the locker room. The use of the camera in this scene is important with the use of POV shots to place the audience in Rocky's position as he is being brutalized by Clubber Lang. This culminates in the slow-motion editing and the uproar of Lang as his last punch blasted Rocky and the use of sound effects to make the punch sound like loudening, such as artillery fire or a car crash. Throughout the scene, the filmmakers edited the scene to cut to Rocky's locker room where his trainer lay dying. The combination of these techniques makes Rocky's defeat more dramatic as the audience feels closer to the hero, Rocky.

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Editing Analysis - Ad Astra

Ad Astra was a compelling space adventure that hold itself through magnificent visuals and great plot. My favorite part was when traveling to the moon was depicted as unglamorously as flying coach to LaGuardia. I would love to eat Applebee’s in Zero G’s. Visually impressive, narratively familiar, emotionally distant, but thankfully intellectually stimulating. Ad Astra is the best movie I’ve seen this year. Brilliant directing, cinematography, acting, and editing. I love the tender introspection in such a big story. The most “realistic” space movie I’ve seen, I loved the portrayal of the “near future”. The acting and sound editing & mixing was done well. The horrifyingly lonesome, grounded my realistic and emotionally loaded settings of it all was really harsh. One of the better space movies to come along in quite some time. I’ve heard it described as boring but I think you’d have to be boring to find it boring.

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Blog #3 Editing Analysis

        The film that I chose to analysis is called The Secret Life of Walter Mitty(2013). The scene that I chose is one of my favorite scenes in this film, it is the beginning scene of the downhill longboard at Iceland. At the beginning of the screen, the camera is following the running protagonist in a medium shot. Then, there is a cut into a super-wide shot by the drone where the protagonist sees the boundless landscape, which also makes the viewer see how tiny he is when he compares with the landscape. The next shot is an eye-level, medium shot that shows the top half of the protagonist’s body with his confused eyes. After that, there is a low angle, long shot from the distance left, the backside of the protagonist, which shows the loneliness of the protagonist, and the question of how could he go to the place he wants. Then, the shot cuts back to the eye-level, medium shot of the protagonist. The next shot shows the protagonist’s point of view of the wide landscape, and then a close up of the landscape shot which shows the road towards the town where the protagonist needs to go. Then, the shot cuts back the medium shot of the protagonist again, and the protagonist leaves the frame. In the next 25 seconds of the scene, the shot shifts between the objective point of view and the subjective point of view with continuity editing to show the activities of the protagonist that he is preparing to slide down the hill.




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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kurY9aSolo0 from 0:15-1:19sec.

Blog #3 Editing Analysis

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