From the course: Foundations of Video: The Art of Editing
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Action
Let's move onto another genre entirely. Not as difficult to edit perhaps, but definitely harder to shoot. Action. Now, action sequences are much harder to shoot than to edit which is one reason why editors are sometimes involved in the creation of the story boards, planning the shots that we will eventually edit together. But, whether we pre-edit them through story boards or edit them after shooting, our goals are the same, to tell the story of the scene as well as possible. We're going to look at a student film called, Kamea, directed by Jennifer Akana Sturla. This film is about a naive, un self-confident Hawaiian teenage girl named Kamea. Who falls in love with a surfer boy named Thomas, who is aloof and seemingly out of reach. Despite the duplicity of her best friend Donny, she tries to impress him with her surfing but because she isn't very good at it, she needs to teach herself to surf. By the end of the film, she has learned how to surf, has attracted Thomas' attention and also…
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