Summary of editing:

The filmmaking is involved with the combination and selection of the shots into sequences. This is a unique art in the cinema where the editor make the effect for the viewer, that is so engaged to the story that doesn’t realizes about what has been changed. This is called the "invisible art".
The film editor must know how to tell a story, be politically savvy when working with directors and studio executives, and have a calm and confident demeanor. Millions of dollars of film and the responsibility of guiding the picture through post-production and into theaters rest in the editor's hands. Scenes may have been photographed poorly and performances might have been less than inspired, but a skilled and creative editor can assemble the film so that the audience will never see these imperfections.
The film editor, working with the director, shaped the scene into its final form. After hours and hours of reviewing the unedited film, he created this one-minute scene.
Cuts and Transitions: Assembling the Scene
Editors select sounds and images from all the film that has been shot and arrange them to make the movie. They also plan how one shot will best transition to the next. There are dozens of possible transitions the editor can choose, each of which will create a different feeling.

Editing often begins as soon as film has been shot. Early scenes are assembled for the producer and director to view. Occasionally, the actors will also view these early scenes.

The first cut of a film, called a "rough cut," takes up to three months to complete. The Sometimes the editor works alone, sometimes with the director. The sound designer and music composer join them for the final cut.
Today most editors use computers or nonlinear digital editing systems to compile a film. The editor arranges the work print, and then creates an edit decision list that will be passed on to the negative matcher.

Things that have to be considered in the world of editing:

·                         Edit and paginate News, Business and Local sections including and special sections.

·                        Create headlines, subheads and photo captions for local, national and syndicated stories.

·                        Preview and review concerts of local and national significance.

·                        Cover what don’t have to be seen.

In the world of making a movie

In the world of making a movie:

Director: He has the role on facing problems every day and also he needs new ideas everyday.

Producer: He is the one that pays the money for the film, actors etc.

Scriptwriter: In this film, the scriptwriter is hurt, so he needs a typewriter. He is the one that has to change the story if it is needed, and also the script.

Actor: She is uncomfortable with what she has to do in the film at the beginning, so she wants to quit. Then, the actors have script conferences.

Cinematographer: He is the one in charge on changing the stages for the different situations in the film, for example the rain, and the lighting effects for making some romance.

Sound: The sound has the role to adapt music to situations, when there is tension there is a more tense music, when there is romance the music is slower and nice, and also plays with the sound of the rain, which have a good effect con it.

Assistant director: He is the one that do everything for the director to be comfortable and also take orders all the time. 

Hope

I think that what we did successfully was that in every picture, we didn’t lose the vision of the backstage and also the sequence of the photos.

The difficulties where that this was a very wide theme and few shots provided. Also it was difficult to choose a good scenery for the hope, because after that, there should have to be a history. In our shots, we started at the sanatory and finished at the church.

This shots where demonstrations of suffer, and some type of angel, could be said, how helped him to trust and have hope with his problem. And here the hope was based on god, but it seemed to be something without any other escape.

I think we made a good job for the idea of creating that type of acting in the twelve shots.

                                                       Strangers

They chose a very dark place and away from everything. On this occasion, an underground train station. At the beginning of the film there is a voiceover, when the character gets on the train. 
When the passenger gets into the train, he meets another passenger, which makes cross connection just looking at each other.
The train moves at a high speed and when they arrive to the next arrive, lots of very strange men with tattoos all over his body and many piercings in the head arrive and the first thing they do is call the attention of the passenger who was reading the news paper by painting it with a black spry. 
The background music has voices saying things in other language, but it seems to be diabolic things. 
In this film there are always eye contacts between the characters, not a dialogue. There is always tension, for the background music, the train is moving too fast and the men staring at them fixed.
In one moment of some much tension, because of the wired men, the phone starts to ring and he can´t turn it off. The sound of the ringing is very loud and classic for phones. (This shows signs of fear.) At the same time, the other strange persons where starring at him with a bad face and very impatient.
At the next stop, what happens is that those who were first of all in the train make a face signal to jump off the train and started running off the train at the same time. The music sound at that time was very rusher and also the strangers wanted to catch them, but they could go out from the train before they could catch them. When they finally manage to escape, the strangers from the other side of the window did bad faces and hit the window, and the survivors of this bad experience start to scream of happiness.

From this films I conclude that what the movie tries to express is that with only expressions and different looks, without any dialogue there can be a story with a beginning and also an end. With the help of just music backgrounds, a good scenery for the ocation and also very good actors. Also I think that the connection with the glossary was something really smart, for them to more or less to know from what side their were.

Ramiro Villegas.

1) Find two images for French impressionist paintings.

Give brief caption with name, artist, date. Explain briefly the important characteristics of French Impressionism.

Claude Monet, Impression, soleil levant(Impression, Sunrise), 1872, oil on canvas, Musée Marmottan

Alfred Sisley, Bridge at Villeneuve-la-Garenne, 1872, Metropolitan Museum of Art

The French impressions have to do with the light reflections, also with the art movement, that can be seen in Monet´s painting. Also the human interception of what they see in the picture and unusual visual angles.

2) Three outside factors that influenced the rise of French Impressionist cinema?

Explain in your own words.

When WW1 had finished, there was an economic decrease in almost all over the world, because of the war, so the French impressionists in cinema had to be more successful in their job, and had to come up with lots of new ideas. For recovering economically.

Other factor was the improve in modern cinema, which was very powerful in Europe, because this brought lots of new ideas and techniques in filming and also in styles and editing for that time.

3) Describe three or more important technical aspects of French Impressionist Cinema (i.e. use of camera, editing, sets, lighting, narrative, etc.)

The angles where more varied, as for example: Low angle shot, and High angle shot. The Low one, gives power to the character and the High one, makes him look weak.

Editing was also used very much for making flashbacks or shadows in some occasions.

 4) Find information on two important film directors in French Impressionist Cinema from 1918-1929: name, photo, major films, interests or concerns shown in films.

Abel Gance by the Studio Harcourt
Born	25 October 1889 Paris, France
Died	10 November 1981 (aged 92) Paris, France

Filming: Vénus aveugle  after the invasion on France in 1940, to give hope to the French.

Jean Renoir
Born	15 September 1894 Paris, France
Died	12 February 1979 (aged 84) Beverly Hills, California, United States
Occupation	Actor, director, screenwriter, producer, author
Years active	1924–1978
Spouse	Catherine Hessling (1920–1930) Dido Freire (1944–1979)

Grand Illusion was one of his greatest films.