The Elements of Genre shown through a Video...

We were given the task to in a group of three develop a short film on the topic of genre. In our task description we were told to discuss Mise-en-scene and its elements, the Coan brothers and how they test genre especially with 'Fargo'. This task was given not only to demonstrate our new knowledge into genre but also to allow us to have our first go at editing using the software.
In our film, we took many short sequences which all had to be edited to flow from one to another.
Our editing consisted of :

•  Firstly taking out the extra time this was the pauses after the initial question and the pause at the end of each sequence when they had finished talking
• Then establishing an order for our clips, we tried to listen to the way people answered the questioned and tried to make it flow as well as we could between each different person
• We then looked closely at each frame. The first time we edited it, the frame kept being cropped, this meant many of the faces were cut off. However we have developed our knowledge in the programme and this time, we were able to crop our frame, by allowing us to demonstrate the rule of thirds
• After doing the basic editing we started to explore the more complex editing and the different things you could do with the programme. We added two still images into our film, we developed the skill of embedding the image into a clip, meaning that the film ran a lot more smoothly

Our genre video: