Minor Project - Goodfellas Edit

The second clip I was to edit for my minor project was Goodfellas (1990). The clip I decided to use from Goodfellas was the very iconic scene with Joe Pesci come to be known as "Funny How?" This is a very strong performance piece and gets real intense, real quick. I wanted to use this clip because it relies on its audio quality quite a lot but it is elevated when accompanied with the visuals, when you see the strong performances of everyone involved. Like the
Gravity clip, I began by editing the visuals first. Due to the film been the oldest out of my choices with been released in 1990, I wanted to give it a very home video feel to it, but also a cheap knock off style as well. I used an image of scanlines and superimposed them over the top of the footage, this added a very dated feel to it, and made it seem like it was been watched on VHS or a very old TV of sorts. After adding the scanlines I also wanted to give a very disfigured look to the visuals and cut the footage horizontally through the middle and removed the bottom half. I added the clip in again and enlarged the footage slightly and this was to be played under what had been cut, so it all played in sync and in time but the bottom half was slightly larger and quite off putting. After making these changes, the visual quality had been lowered pretty noticeably and isn't anything like it used to be, so I only wanted to make any other alterations very minimal to not go overkill on the clip. I edit the visual style of the clip by using Colour Effect again and altered the piece slightly to create a brighter tone than the original, which again makes it visuals look cheap.

Again after editing the visuals I needed to focus on switching them around and altering the audio. For this clip, I wanted to keep with the theme of making it feel old and vintage and I decided that as well as editing the audio in my own way, I was going to add TV static over the top to give a very irritating and distracting sound aspect to the piece. Because the visuals for this clip will be normal and of high quality, I wanted the audio to completely distract you from that and make you want to stop watching. I think everyone has had disruption like TV static on their sound before and know just how annoying it can be to the production as a whole. We've come to evolve with technology so static and disruption in audio is only their when we want it. I again used D-Verb to alter the sound because this piece is very dialogue heavy, and if you quieten that audio so the talking is very minimal and sounds far away, then you have your audience straining and struggling to follow the plot, making the piece unwatchable.

I'm pleased with the direction my clips are taking, this piece in particular is very good and I think achieves everything I wanted it to achieve from the get go. It's good that from the progress from the Gravity clip I was able to use some of the same techniques and effects, as well as using new ones that would not be as effective in other clips, but work just right for this piece. I'm pleased with progress my edits are making.