Editing In The Jazz Age

Film in the Jazz Age, while not one of the things it was known for, was still very interesting to learn about. While researching more about the Jazz Age and film then and today, I learned lots of things about camera techniques, editing techniques, and how film was utilized in the Jazz Age. I learned to utilize these camera and editing techniques to my advantage when making my quality project, which was very helpful to me and I feel benefited my film. Learning more about film in the Jazz Age also helped me appreciate the time more, and while it wasn’t as well known as music, dancing, or other entertainment, it was still very significant. I learned a lot through the making of my mini quality project. To begin with, I decided that I was going to make a short film based on the end of The Great Gatsby. I listed what I knew and what I didn’t know about filming and iMovie, and since I took digital video last year I had some experience but I can always learn more. I looked over some past movies and scripts that I made and wondered how I could make it better and expanded upon that by researching different filming techniques like the thirds rule, wide and narrow shots, etc.. I was also interested in the general idea of film in the jazz age, and decided to research more into that. Since filming and editing, while similar, are both very important in their own …show more content…
I’m not going to enter it into any festivals or anything, but I am still happy that I learned a lot more about something that I might use in the future. It is a bit shorter than I initially imagined, but working with what I could I didn’t expect to make a full feature length movie about the book. I think if I had planned it out a bit more, I could have had more footage since I could’ve set up a bit more time to film with my peers. I think having freedom to do what I wanted for this project really let me learn a lot on my