In an attempt to understand how to edit a triptych, and have more of an understanding of why its crucial to measure when filming so I'm aware of how to edit, I've began to practice on editing the triptych on my own.
The above image shows an example of the effect you can gain from cropping video footage. I'd recorded off the HDD DVD Recorder that records directly from TV. I had a small problem with getting the recordings from the TV onto DVD, I asked the technician what the best dvd disk would be to use, and he suggested the DVD-RAM would work better than the current DVD -R that I had bought specifically for the job.
I used Adobe Premier for the purposes of editing.
The pieces of footage that I got off the TV at the time were various little clips. I felt I had to make it clear which topic was which, I did however struggle to find something specifically about TV, so as a general thing, I recorded programmes that are often popular on TV (I.e. News, Game shows, Sitcoms, Chat shows, and Make-over programmes.) As for celebrity programmes, I found a documentary on Michael Jackson, A brief outline of celebrity " goings on " through a quick 5 minute news flick. And a message made from singer Lady Gaga, to the public about Japan. And finally football is covered through a short documentary presented by Sir Alan Sugar, and a brief small league football match.
Following the above experimentation and putting the new learnt skill to use, I created a triptych and had it play when cropped. Without adjusting clips, just cropping them, meant that some of the image would be cut, and that a lot of the programme would be missing. It gave me an idea of how accurate I'm going to have to be with my images and make sure that they're all in the right measurement to make editing a little easier for myself.
Finally, with a better understanding of what I can achieve, and looking at a tutorial on cropping etc, within adobe premiere, I was able to adjust according to the general layout of a shot. When it came to looking at the footage, I found a lot of the action happened within the middle of the shot, allowing me to crop down to the middle as much as possible and then move it along with the use of the "motion" option.
It's all really been beneficial, giving me an insight to how much can be done to get the triptych effect, and that quite a lot is resting on the idea that I measure it up properly. It's also made it clear how I want it to be set out, the neat black border between the three clips gives it a more formal and professional appearance.
It had been made clear, through the practicing on my own computer, that a laptop may be able to handle the programme but would possibly lower the quality of the footage due to lack of system tools/space etc. So I aim to be using this computer as a tool of practice and setting out the footage that I want playing at specific times, so when it comes to editing the process can be made shorter and planned.
