The second week into filming was predominantly spent viewing and editing our footage that we had filmed the previous week on final cut express. By the end of the week all of the shots we had filmed were edited and we had figured out what other shots needed to be filmed in order to complete our opening sequence.
The editing of footage process proved to be rather time consuming as there is so many different editing options that you can play around with, but you still have to find the right techniques which go with the genre of the opening sequence, for example our film is a Thriller so everything had to be on a more serious note for it to suit the genre, such as the digetic and non-digetic sound which was chosen.
As a group i felt that we coped with doing the editing well, bearing in mind that we had no real experience of the software. There was alot of playing around with the shots in the first few times we edited, but this has proved to be very useful at it allowed us to fine tune the shots we were defiantly going to put in our opening sequence, therefore making them look more professional.
We had some good footage which we were going to include, however it was not enough for a two minute opening sequence so it was imperative that we went out and filmed some more footage. At times as a group we did struggle for ideas as to what to film if shots we did didn't turn out as good as we anticipated. This wasn't really that much of a big deal but it did take up some of our time, being stuck for ideas during filming was something we had actually expected to happen however.
The editing stage went well and it was productive, at this stage i would say that our film opening sequence is coming along well as it's looking rather professional. We have generally managed our time well, the only minor problem we had was not knowing what to do next in terms of what shots to film. But this can be easily resolved.
Friday, 27 April 2012
Production Blog Entry 1
The first time we went out to film, we managed to got some scenes and shots filmed which are going to be included into our film opening sequence and some shots of which have been left out as they could have been more improved and therefore look more professional.
Prior to going out filming, the group had planned thoroughly which shots we wanted to go out and film in our first session, so we had a good idea as to what we were going to get done. Some of the shots we done came out as we had expected and were good enough to be put into the opening sequence, but a few of the shots didn't work as well as we anticipated, so we didn't generally get as much filmed as we had liked. With some of the shots, they looked and seemed good enough to be put into the opening sequence but when they were uploaded onto the Mac, they didn't actually look good and instead of looking professional they looked rather amateur. A number of the shots did actually look really nice however and turn out even better than expected.
There was some experimenting with the different editing techniques and effects, but as we are not that familiar with using cameras and final cut express this could only be taken so far, so instead we took the decision to stick to the basics, as trying to make it look fancy could end up in it looking very poor.
After we had went out to film we then uploaded the footage onto final cut express, were the footage could then be viewed at a higher quality, this was useful as we got a better look at what the shots would look like.
Overall i felt that the first session of when we went out to film was useful as we got some of our shots done and we got a better understanding of how to work the camera and how to use final cut express.
Prior to going out filming, the group had planned thoroughly which shots we wanted to go out and film in our first session, so we had a good idea as to what we were going to get done. Some of the shots we done came out as we had expected and were good enough to be put into the opening sequence, but a few of the shots didn't work as well as we anticipated, so we didn't generally get as much filmed as we had liked. With some of the shots, they looked and seemed good enough to be put into the opening sequence but when they were uploaded onto the Mac, they didn't actually look good and instead of looking professional they looked rather amateur. A number of the shots did actually look really nice however and turn out even better than expected.
There was some experimenting with the different editing techniques and effects, but as we are not that familiar with using cameras and final cut express this could only be taken so far, so instead we took the decision to stick to the basics, as trying to make it look fancy could end up in it looking very poor.
After we had went out to film we then uploaded the footage onto final cut express, were the footage could then be viewed at a higher quality, this was useful as we got a better look at what the shots would look like.
Overall i felt that the first session of when we went out to film was useful as we got some of our shots done and we got a better understanding of how to work the camera and how to use final cut express.
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