How Codecs Work

A codec is a device or program that compresses data to enable faster transmission and decompresses received data. Two principal techniques are used in codecs, pulse-code modulation and delta modulation. Codecs are often designed to emphasize certain aspects of the media to be encoded. For example, a digital video of a sports event needs to encode motion well but not necessarily exact colors, while a video of an art exhibit needs to encode color and surface texture well. Lower bitrate codecs allow more users, but they also have more distortion. Beyond the initial increase in distortion, lower bit rate codecs also achieve their lower bit rates by using more complex algorithms that make certain assumptions, such as those about the media and the packet loss rate. Other codecs may not make those same assumptions. When a user with a low bitrate codec talks to a user with another codec, additional distortion is introduced by each transcoding. 

Montage

Before film makers had realized that instead of having one entirely too long shot for a whole movie, and instead you could take certain clips of certain shots placing them together to create the same story, films were somewhat boring. When Sergei Eisenstein discovered this new way of film he called his films montages.
 The montage I have created with my classmates is about a girl that has bullied one of her classmates to the point of suicide. Now she has bad karma... Because she was so awful to the poor boy, he decides it's her turn to be bullied and he proceeds to torment and haunt her to the point of her becoming a demon.

We had a week to plan, film and edit this project. So my initial idea was to use a 4 year-old boy conquering his fears and in the end he is not a little boy, he's a grown man. I couldn't find times in the period I had to finish this project that worked with the actors I needed, so we resulted to creating this montage that we were able to shoot using each other and the ecomm studio.