LAB ASSIGNMENT # 40

Editing a Conversation

Points or grade basis: 100 Points

Due: see schedule

Goals of the Assignment:

To gain practice editing a dramatic narrative conversation .

To increase your skills on Final Cut Pro software.

To increase your skills on FCP Color Correction

To increase your skills in audio correction

Exporting and importing video footage

Increase understanding of timing.

Increase expertise in shot selection.

Increase your story telling skills.

Assignment Description:

This exercise is a short video/film opening scene from the USA TV NETWORK Show It involves a conversation between three actors and their movement from one part of a room to another. This exercise teaches you how to edit a narrative scene while matching action, along with extensive color correction. You must follow the script exactly.

Premise: A murdered politician is given a second chance at life after he's reincarnated in a lower form.

Remember Murch's Rules of 6. With your amazing editing talents this scene should come alive. You must turn in a playable DVD in a professional DVD Sleeve of your production.