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1. Introduction: Hello. Welcome to this class on visual storytelling. In this class, you will learn the three simple stages of how to tell a story. Number one. Decide on a story structure number to find suitable clips to illustrate your narrative. Number. Three. Arrange clips in the correct order, whether you are creating flogs, social media, videos, adverts or even home movies with your family. If you can tell a good story, you will be successful in filmmaking. You can use this technique using any editing software, but the you are editing on your phone using I'm movie or popular editing programs like Final Cut Pro X. Well, David Premier, I will don't show you how to arrange clips to create another scenario on toe clips. Too easily Change a scene location. I will then share techniques to enhance the Finnish film by using titles, music, sound effects on the color gray. I will supply you with the clips to use so you can follow along, using your own editing software that's get started
2. Building a story: There were three things that we need to do before we can get started. Number one is decide what? So you want your story to bay in this example? The story is your staying on the campus that you get for shower and you make some breakfast . Once you've decided on this story, you need to shoot the clips to illustrate what you want to say best. So, for example, here I want to show they're on the camp site. So we use a wide shot of the campsite. I want to show that I was walking to the showers. You need a shot showing you walk into the showers. I want a shot to show. Having the couple say, neither shot the company. T. That's number two. The clips on number three is the order off the clips. So to be able to create the best story possible on the one that you want to show, you need to arrange the clips in the order from start to end, and this is how you do it. So in this scene, I want to say that the first shots going to bay, it's morning on the campsite. Put it out there. Okay, I want to show that we're gonna walk to the shower. First you get a shot of walking to the shower and you put it next to it. When you get to the shower, I just want to confirm that you're going into the actual shower shower. It'll that goes next. And then we want to show the shower coming on. It's like that that's in that shop. That should be. I think we have the cattle being switched on. They're going to cut it to that click that means is gonna boil. I don't need to see it boil in. Remember, in talent stories, you can show as much or as little as you want. But I fell in the little secrets like this. It's good to get to the point quicker. Then we want to see the water going in the cup that automatically shows that you've made a cup of tea that actually need to see the finished article. We then want Teoh make a bacon sandwich. So what do we need to do for in the camper van meter on the gas? So that shows a shot of turning the gas on. That is Cut that down. Move it along. Okay, Once the gas is on, what do you expect to happen? You expect the gas to light. So he was telling the story. As we go, there's the gas coming on. Once the oven's on what you expect to do, you expect to see the bacon going in the oven in the oven. That's all we need to see. Okay. We don't really need to see it cookin. We just want to see the finished article. So may we get that's the finish. Bacon summit. So 10 clips. We have made the stories. Let's just watch it back. So we're walking to the shower. Praise the door shower on, but the cattle on to the gas on but the bacon in. And there you go. We've got our story. One thing I will add to our story here is I like to see us walking back to the camp of on so we can use the same shot. So we copied it and we paste it. I'm a brother in between. The in between the shower on the kettle going on. Let's make these a little bit quicker. So walk in of seeing enough. Let's just cut to the point, but click. Just want to see the click, but sure, that's too long. So we just want to see the spread in shower. So it's like you're painting a picture with images. You don't always have to show everything you want to show the main points of what you want to come across in your film. So there we go that quick to the point. We've got our first scene, and that's how to tell a story in three separate stages. One decide on the story to make sure you got the clips to show it in three. Order it in the correct way to show the story best.
3. Editing clips to change scenarios: So as a filmmaker you have the power to show the audience exactly what you want them to see . So in the previous lesson, I've showed you that we wanted to show that we're on the campsite regard for shower. We've made a cup of tea. I made the bacon sandwich. However, by changing the order off the clips, we can tell a different story. Let me show you how so in this example, what we're going to dio we're gonna move these clips, and we're going to start off film of making a cup of tea. Every guy and then after all, t they can make Ah, breakfast. Okay. Nice breakfast. Okay. And then I want to show that I'm gonna have a shower after breakfast. So I like to get cut back to the stubs in shot because it sets the scene where you are. And then they also breaks the scene up from the breakfast scene to the shower scene on By breaking it up. It causes less of ah, the jump. Because I say if we put that here straight from the breakfast walk in, it kind of works, but it looks a little bit odd and I like to use est option short in between. Teoh let the audience know where we are on. It's a nice link to the next scene, so that show that Okay, then we go for a walk and we have a show. Let's take that one away, work and have a shower. That's the end of that scene. So by changing the order off the clips, you can create a totally different story. How, for example, say, Oh, no, I don't want this. Make it really sure. I don't want to show us having breakfast. So it take the breakfast out, cut that down and here we go. So if either company t before your shower and there's no sign of the breakfast, what I would do in this one is I would start the stop shin shot off the site. So tells the audience where you are. Nice morning property. Whoa! And have a shower
4. Adding clips to tell a different story: as a filmmaker, you have the option to change the look. The fill on the story off your film by add in some extra clips. For example, In this scene, you can see that we wonder. Campsite. You make a couple t have a shower and have some breakfast for some reason. Let's say your producer someone gays are No, we don't want to be on the campsite anymore. Can you put us, um, in the city? OK, so all we need to do is take this campsite est option shot off on. We will choose the clip of a house. I would put the house at the beginning off the film. So now you're telling your audience you're having a cup of tea on the bacon sandwich, But you know, other campsite. A couple of things that will give it away so you can have to remove these shots are the walk into the showers and turn in the gas on because that does it like that said in some kind of wagon. Okay, so that's have a look it now. Okay, well, sunny morning. Have a cup. It's a have a shower on the bacon sandwich to make it less obvious. Hair would probably even believe that shot off the shower and then just show the water coming out. So there we go. There we go. And then you cannot change it again. That say, um, you are kampen next to a lake. So that's put a shot of a lake here. That's what made the house shot on. That's having that. So I was set Compton next, some lakes still having breakfast on the cup of tea. So another thing you can do is show a city. So let's put that at the start. Take out the lake shop, Okay, That shows we're having a cup of tea in the city now. So just remember, but changing or adding clips to your current story, you can put your audience in the totally different location. It's simple as that
5. Adding titles to reinforce story structure: say you didn't have establishing shot. Don't panic what you can dio. So let's take that all away. Say we didn't have that is add a title to let your audience No, exactly where you are. So, in the previous clip you saw that were on the camp site because you've seen that you're there so we can put props. Devon, then the campsite. Um campus? No, us. It's called a lot. Okay, so that's changed the color Teoh Blue Center it. Okay, okay. So now we got a title. Drag that onto the timeline Move along. That's perhaps have a fade up on the fate down. This will that your audience know exactly where they are. Let's make it a bit longer. Good, Devin campus or us. So we know they were in Devon on campus, all of us. Another thing we can do is lets remove up is we can use titles to set the time of day. So that's tell the audience that this is eight o'clock in the morning. So let's make another title on that's put eight AM so let's just make that right. I am. Let's keep it white and just put it in the middle of the screen and drag it down onto our timeline again. Fade up, Fake down. Okay, so now note seven. The old jets. There's eight o'clock in the more than what you could do as well is take away the shower shots. Andi, the cattle going on, it's ah, on the tea. And then what we can do is change this to that. Say it's one PM now in the afternoon. They don't know that. Okay, 1 p.m. At 1 p.m. In the afternoon. For the Gasol. We're having a bacon sandwich. So you've told your old Jens two different things by literally adding a title to your story .
6. Adding music & sfx to enhance film: once you're happy of your story, we can make it a little bit better by adding some sound effects and a little bit of music. Let me show you how so Back to the reverted storyline that we had at the start that the campsite this is in the more than so I've got a sound effects of some butts again. So if we had the underneath Okay, we kind of wanted just to cover the foot. 1st 2 shots, she wouldn't really have buds most solely in the shower. Not was not as loud anywhere. So there we go. Okay. And then what we can do is out some music to help the pace of your story and tell it in a more engaging way. It's that strike, um, some music on show it. Okay, that sounds good. So what we can do now is telling the story with underlay off music, and this will also help the pace off your story. So what we can do is while is we can edit to the beat off the music. Miss will make your story in your film, like a lot neater and more professional. So what I think will do just toe ad. Some dramatic effect to this is I think we will fade in to the scene. I tell you what that's used all the elements that we've done in this class and that's used , um, the title. So that's used 8 a.m. So that's faith that in. So it's the fade again, both ways. There we go, and then perhaps, were fade into the campsite. Okay, like that. And then what would do we put the birds sound effect underneath Andi. That will help make it more engaging. And then what we do is start them the music on when we walk him. Let's see how that looks in the moment. Okay? It's not 1 p.m. It's eight in the morning. Actually, that's change up. 8 a.m. Simple as that. Well, let's make that a bit longer. We want Teoh give the audience enough time to read what it says. So let's try again. Just extended that right there, okay? And then we want the music to come in as we will. That's just lying. The upper amusing the waves on the music track, and I'm lying in them up with the cuts off the clips. Okay, let's move along onto the beat, move it along, put it on to the beat, moving along, put it on to the beach or so longer clips. So sounds a bit longer. Moving along, going up to the beat. I don't need to see as much as that. So short on that moving along, that on the line. Okay, yet moving along lineup the peak of the music track moving along the move it along. What would do on here? We would just cut that you can always and a piece of your film. But going to the end of the music track copy and where it finishes, Elena, over the last part of your clip lining up there. What you should do is just drag it along so that beats in a similar place. And then if we add a little transition that will ease its out, what we can do? Extend that and then we're other dissolved down to finish your film. So it looks something like this now and that you've got your film, so but I didn't sound effects and music to your film really takes it to the next level, and that makes it look more professional, quick and easy to do
7. Review & colour grade : So that's how you make a story in three simple steps. Let's just go over what you've learned. So, first of all, building a story. Remember the 123 number one story. Establish what story you want to tell Number two. Make sure you have the clips to tell your story and illustrated in the best way possible. Number three. Order your clips to put them in the way that you want your audience toe. Digest them. So by arranging the order your clips, you're tellin your viewer one thing or another. The next thing that we did is we changed the order to change the scenario off your fill, so that is really useful to use the same clips that tower a different story. We then added some extra clips to change the location. Easy of your story by using the same clips. We then added totals to reinforce the location off our film. That's a great technique to use if you don't have establishing shots for your films. Finally re added some sound effects and some music to enhance the film and make it look more professional.
8. Conclusion and Project outline: the last thing could do just toe. Take it up to the next notch. If you can add a little color grade to make it look a little bit more filmic. So I'm at an adjustment layer. Let's call that great. We're dragging that on top of all the clips slept in that go into our creative panel finding a grade try that one. Okay, that's quite filmic without the each different software you might be using. The have a different way of doing this, but you can easily do it by just go into color and changing some of the parameters. I always think that by Adan, um so blacks on making it a little bit more Ah, and changing the temperature to make a little bit more Orange House to the film look. So we now gotta grade on their and the final thing we could do if you really wanted to, is we can add a new item, which is black video. We put the black video over the top Onda. We will go to crop in the facts crop dry crop onto there. It's affecting Charles. Set the clip that's put top two 85. That's then copy that black paste it put it over the top, change your bottom to 85 and changed that, but to zero. And now we've added some 16 by nine film bars on top of it, just to make it that little bit more professional. There we go. So now what I would like you to do is I will supply you with a video clip that includes all these clips that I've used. I want you to cut up the clip. I want you to build your own story. If you have the skills other title out a music. If you don't don't worry, create a simple story by using the clips that I provided. If you have your own clip, you want to add that this start or end. Please do that, and I can't wait to see what you produce.
Antony Quintin, Filmmaker
