Thursday, January 8, 2009

Assignment: Blog Post, Matched Action

Part One: Fine an online video with a matched action sequence and post a link to it here, including how far in the match is. Give us a few sentences on whether you think it works or not.

Deadline: 7 p.m. on Sunday

Part Two: Shoot a series of three photos - from different angles and with different compositions - as if you were doing a three-shot matched action sequence in video. We'll download and sequence them in SoundSlides on Tuesday in class.

4 comments:

Seth said...
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Tommy McGahee said...

Video of a man who received 1,000 copies of the AARP magazine by mistake, posted on cnn.com. Matched action: 1:55-2:06.

http://i.cdn.turner.com/cnn/.element/js/2.0/video/evp/module.js?loc=dom&vid=/video/living/2009/01/08/rosch.1000.aarp.magazines.kvbc

The matched action is simple and smooth, although I'm not convinced it's very effective. While I understand their opening with the magazine forces them to close with it, flipping through just seems redundant. Zooming in on the newly flipped page is cool though.

Seth said...

Video of Air Force One being moved. From CNN.com:

http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/us/2009/01/10/vo.mock.airforce.one.cnn?iref=videosearch

It's pretty much a continuous stream of matched action from about 5 seconds in till about 40 seconds in, with may a few jump cuts. I think it does a pretty good job matching the action and keeping the flow consistent and smooth. The content itself is pretty boring though.

Laurie said...

I found a matched action in this video at nyt.com:

http://video.nytimes.com/video/playlist/sports/1194811622289/index.html#1194837534286
(its the "Brooklyn's Jazzy Jumpers video, fourth one down on the right)

The matched action happens when the jumpers' coach sits them down to talk to them (happens at 28-38 and at 4:30-5). The matched action here works pretty well. The camera is a little shaky and i think it would have been more effective if there was more variety between close medium and wide shots. It does make a somewhat boring scene more interesting though.