slow motion

1. Add clip to timeline
2.Go to the tool pallete on the right hand side of the screen
3.Click the speed tool or -sss
4.Go to the bottom left and click the toggle clip keyframe
5.Add control point by clicking on the row underneath your clip
6.Drag control points so that they are further apart

Pleasentville effect

Pleasentville effect

1. Get footage that has colours that stand out eg yellow
2. Go to effects-video filters- colour correction the drag onto footage
3.Colour correction tab
4. click on the limit effect bar
5.eye drop tool
6..Click the colour you want to key
7.The colour wheel will narrow down to the colour you picked
8.untick the saturation box and the luma box
9.Bring down clip saturation
10. Click invert selection tool
11.Holding down shift and eye dropper tool
12. Drag out the colour on the bar until the colour is standing out

Key Framing

Key Framing 

1. Get a picture from your browser and upload onto your project on Final cut.
2.Scale your picture to how you want it.
3.Select the picture in your timeline that you want to keyframe.
4. On the right side of the screen there is a a motion keyframe button or type -^k
5.Go to the where you want the keyframing to start and clicking on the keyframe button begin to move your image, each time clicking on the button to keep creating keyframes.

clone effect

This is the clone effect.
The main things you need to know while filming in order to make this work is:
Keeping the camera really still throughout it, lighting, and making sure the eye line is matched up.

1. Drag your footage onto the timeline.
2. Turn down the opacity of the top line
3. Adjust what your scene is meant to be so it looks how you want it to be.
4. once you have figured out how the scene goes turn the opacity back up.
5. Go to the motion tab-crop-and crop according to how the scene is.

Green screen

Green screen is another editing technique. The point of this is to make the character look like they are somewhere when in reality they are just standing in front of a colored screen. Weather Reporters are known to use this.

1. Film your character/characters in front of a green screen which can also be blue.
2. In final cut pro move your footage onto the timeline.
3. Select footage and go into effects-video filters-key-chroma keyer 
4. From your browser drag your photo onto the timeline preferably underneath your footage.
5. Select footage and go on chroma keyer 
6. Click on eye droper tool this will key out a colour
7. Select the green from the screen, most of the colour should then key out.
8. Holding down shift key keep pressing the tool to help take out more green.
9. Drag out the colour bar out till all the green has disappeared 
10. Drag out softener bar to take the pixelation away.

D.w.Griffith

Edwin Stanton Porter was the first to discover that cutting separate scenes together could create a story, he realised that by doing this will help to create an emotional and psychological impact on the audience.

films 

the great train robbery

terrible Teddy, the Grizzly King

Jack and the Beanstalk (1902)

life of an american fireman, this is a silent film that was made in 1903. I n this film edwin only used 9 shots some of them being interior of the Engine House,Leaving the Engine House and a shot of the fire. the film is known to be the earliest film that uses cross-cutting. After making this film on his following film he tried out techniques such as different types of lights, close ups and changing shots within a scene. 

Edwin is still known as 

Quentin Tarantino is an american screenwriter, director, producer and actor. He is well known for directing kill bill and inglourios bastards. 

On final cut a scratch disk is where you can save all your rendered files. A scratch disk makes it easier to transfer your files on to another computer.