Classwork/Mini Project: Multicam-Continuity Editing

In this blog you can find the work I did on how to edit with multiple cameras. My group filmed the footage, but I edited it together. My teacher provided a template for the blog post. 

Multicam Editing

In my own terms, multicam editing can be defined as combining or compiling multiple camera angles, shots, and footages of an object or subject into one single video that has multiple shots taken from different angles; the general example for this can be seen in Montage editing. The purpose of doing this is to show a dynamic and more eye-catching videos taken from multiple angles, instead of boring static angle that may discourage/disengage audience with the scene.

Shooting Process

Firstly, our teacher picked one of our friend (Louis in this video) as our subject for the multicam editing. He asked him to make any movement while we as a class record him in different angles and positions to add variations into our clips and stockshoots. Then, our teacher yelled "rolling...camera..actions!" in order to timed our recording to be perfectly or atleast at the same time we hit the record button. After that, we shared our raw clips to our own groups, which we will be editing the clips with our own creativity and our liking later on.

(BEHIND THE SCENES IMAGES): LINK HERE

Here are the raw videos from my group members:

1. Haresha's raw video

2. Ata's raw video

3. Nathan's raw video

https://youtu.be/Pn8qkHtrEcc

My editing process

• Upload the videos to the editing software (CAPCUT) 

• Detach the audio of the clip you wish to use in the final video. 

• Find the ‘clap’ marker on the audio.

• Line up the video files together. 

• Cut where I want the edit to happen

• Don’t delete the clip, just lower the opacity. This way it can be used again later. 

• Mute all clips except for the one you want to use. 

Here is some clips of my editing processes, where to match a scene with another scene I lowered the opacity and then edited them by cutting or removing some durations.

Here is my edited videos prototypes:

1) videos i made in class

In my opinion this is a bad editing as I don't have enough preparations to export the raw videos

(update: I lost this video, so I decide to upload a new one)

Here's the final video

The audio is appeared to be mixed as I've realized just now (D-1 submission) that my video is gone, so I advice you can mute audio if it gets overwhelming.

Self Reflection: This project helps me visualise and understand how to edit a multicam angle video. Our teacher Mr Nick suggest a trick overlaying and reducing the opacity of some clips to zero in order to make the transition between different angles to be seamless, this way we don't need to delete videos one by one too. Here I experiment a montage cuts with different angles while matching my friend's movement in one scene to another scene to make it even smoother.