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5th October on a timeline there would be a clip or a piece of audio there is the head of a clip and the end of the clip (the tale) when you need to synchronise audio and video in the same timeline you right click on the timeline and find the section called synchronise. when you have a timeline you need to organise them into separate rows like with audio in one row you have English audio then in another row you have French but in audio you would also include music or sound effects. when listening to an interview or something the same you create cutaways called radio edits. in this screen shot I have gone into the audio effects and have looked into the transitions and have selected constant prime which controls the amount of decibells the audio makes. this is an example of a cutaway edit in a video   Infinity war cutaway interview

The Three Theories of narrative

Narrative theory: which is basically the story of a film or show  and the three theory's were created by these 3 important people: Tvzetan Todorov, Vladimir Propp and Claud Levi-strauss. Todorav: the frictional environment begins with a star of equilibrium e.g everything is as it should be in a state of equal balance between powers of any kind. It then suppers some disruption or disequilibrium Then at the resolution a new equilibrium is produced. Propp: based on ancient folk tales and has said "that all narratives feature a set of stock characters" which includes heroes, villain,doner, helper,Princesses or prize or goal, Father, dispatcher, Victim and false hero. Levi-strauss: Binary oppositions is a constant creation of conflict or opposition that propels a narrative and the narrative could only end on a resolution of the conflict. for example Visual-Light vs Dark, movement vs stillness, conceptual-love vs hate, control vs panic or can be ...

Mise-en scene and lighting

Mise-en scene stands for to place on stage or everything you see on screen and that word groups in many factors of cinematography but mainly settings and props, costume, hair and makeup, facial expressions and body language, lighting and colour and the position of objects and characters in a frame and these all come together to show visual the type of characters we have on screen or any details shown in character to tell their story. With mise-en scene you can create you favourite movie genres with the key points so you can't make  a war film without Guns, Historic war time military uniforms, music from that era, a location from that time period which was ridden with battle for example ww1 the river Somme and finally wartime vehicles Lighting is a huge factor in cinematography as lighting can change the emotional or tension of a character or a scene by just the change of colour or the intensity of the lights and they can also highlight important characters or objects by turnin...