{"id":4926,"date":"2018-10-12T01:57:04","date_gmt":"2018-10-11T23:57:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.olivier-ladeuix.com\/blog\/?p=4926"},"modified":"2018-10-12T01:57:04","modified_gmt":"2018-10-11T23:57:04","slug":"giving-dimension-to-a-sequence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/olivier-ladeuix.com\/blog\/2018\/10\/12\/giving-dimension-to-a-sequence\/","title":{"rendered":"Giving dimension to a sequence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Asterix and the Mansions of Gods&#8221; by French directors Alexandre Astier and Louis Clichy has become my bedside table movie this month, trying to adapt to cartoony animation and as I was analysing a sequence, I just realised something.<\/p>\n<p>Slow motion shots are fun aren&#8217;t they but we have to recognize that they do stand out a little bit too much those days and might come across as lazy editing especially in animated feature so how one can avoid them?<\/p>\n<p>First we should have a look at the way the action has been cut in this sequence to highlight the amount of frames being borrowed from shot to shot. Usually we accept that it takes between 3 to 5 frames for the eyes to adapt to a cut and therefore borrow that amount of frames from the preceding shot to make the action look seamless over the cut. Here are the start and end frame of each shot just so we can see the amount of overlap.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-4927 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.olivier-ladeuix.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/2018\/10\/Cutting-on-the-action_01A-470x282.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"470\" height=\"282\"><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-4928 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.olivier-ladeuix.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/2018\/10\/Cutting-on-the-action_01B-470x282.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"470\" height=\"282\"><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-4929 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.olivier-ladeuix.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/2018\/10\/Cutting-on-the-action_02A-470x282.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"470\" height=\"282\"><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-4930 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.olivier-ladeuix.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/2018\/10\/Cutting-on-the-action_02B-470x282.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"470\" height=\"282\"><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-4931 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.olivier-ladeuix.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/2018\/10\/Cutting-on-the-action_03A-470x282.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"470\" height=\"282\"><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-4932 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.olivier-ladeuix.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/2018\/10\/Cutting-on-the-action_03B-470x282.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"470\" height=\"282\"><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-4933 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.olivier-ladeuix.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/2018\/10\/Cutting-on-the-action_04A-470x282.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"470\" height=\"282\"><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-4934 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.olivier-ladeuix.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/2018\/10\/Cutting-on-the-action_04B-470x282.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"470\" height=\"282\"><\/p>\n<p>This established, have a look how they cleverly edited the sequence. Instead of using the overused and boring slow motion, they used several cuts on the same action, borrowing just enough frames from the preceding shots to give more dimension to the sequence! Very very clever.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/294683324?dnt=1&#038;app_id=122963\" width=\"470\" height=\"294\" frameborder=\"0\" title=\"Cutting on the action\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s it for today, I hope you enjoyed this post.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Slow motion shots are fun aren&#8217;t they but we have to recognize that they do stand out a little bit too much those days and might come across as lazy editing especially in animated feature so how one can avoid them?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,7,11],"tags":[99,100,146,194,225,271,312,461,580],"class_list":["post-4926","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-animation","category-cinematography-2","category-education","tag-asterix","tag-astier","tag-borrowing","tag-clichy","tag-cut","tag-editing","tag-frames","tag-mansion","tag-pixar"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/olivier-ladeuix.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4926","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/olivier-ladeuix.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/olivier-ladeuix.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/olivier-ladeuix.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/olivier-ladeuix.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4926"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/olivier-ladeuix.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4926\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/olivier-ladeuix.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/olivier-ladeuix.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/olivier-ladeuix.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}