5 Master Editing Techniques Mini Analysis

In this clip from the series "Grey's Anatomy, Season 4 Episode 8", Dr. Yang is trying to prove to Doctor Haan that she is capable of being her right hand in surgery because of her love for cardio. Dr. Yang is very serious and attentive in this scene but she is so focused on getting the surgery for Dr. Haan that she forgets to let her intern students speak. Dr. Haan said that Dr. Yang should take more notes from her friend and then their pagers go off and the scene cuts to the ER with Dr. Shepard showing why their pagers are beeping. Dr. Bailey who is one of the top leading surgeons in the hospital happens to be there and one of the crash victims was her old crush. Instead of paying attention to a more important case, she decides to do scut work on her old crush. The scenes go back and fourth between Dr. Shepard and Dr. Baileys patients who are in complete opposite circumstances. Dr. Shepards patient is in critical condition with a pencil through his eye while Dr. Bailey's patient is sitting up and flirting with her. The cutting back between these two scenes creates a contrasting tone between the two. One being stressful and life threatening and the other being childlike and somewhat funny. The contrast between the two continues throughout the scene. They use Ariel, long, and wide shots to establish the feeling of how critical each patient is. When they showed the kid with the pencil through his eye they used low key lighting and a close up to establish the severity of his injury. This episode had a excellent contrast between seriousness and excitement to create a more edgy tone throughout the scene.

Narrative Sound Project

 My group included Bella, Katerina, and I put together what I look at as a masterpiece. Once we heard about this project all started spitballing ideas until we made a precise plan. We decided to base our video off of a home break gone gruesome, following getting caught by the cops. When coming up with the different sounds we were going to use we had many ideas. But, only having access to several words to tell a story requires you to expand your creativity levels. We got creative when it came to creating our own sounds. My favorite part of the project was trying to make precise sounds with my group. All in all, we had a blast putting together this project. I believe we displayed our scenario very well and Katerina did an amazing job putting all of the sounds together.

In our group we divided the creation of the sounds among the group members. I was in charge of the foot steps, which we did in bathroom of the school. Surprisingly this sound had the most takes, it was difficult to have a quiet background so the sounds could vividly pop. Bella was in charge of the sirens. Luckily for us Bella has a special microphone that has loud sirens that perfectly mock a cop car or an emergency vehicle. We did not include every sound that we had planned to better the outcome of our storyline. Since our storyline was 'breaking in' we decided to use our words as "hands behind your back" to better display the presence of the cops arresting someone for doing something extreme.

Katerina put everything together and executed it perfectly. She did an amazing job putting the sounds together and putting the right amount of space between each sound. We added suspenseful music into the sound to show that it was an impactful part of the storyline.

Overall, I believe my group did an amazing job putting all of the sounds together and editing to better display our storyline of 'breaking in'.

https://youtu.be/doLCUmCDPZg