Friday, 9 March 2012
30th Jan
This week I have carried on editing my footage, trying to create continuity in my montages which has been quite difficult as I have found I haven't included as much shot variation as I need when filming so it's quite difficult to create a visually interesting shot sequence - weaving them together to communicate a large amount of information in a short time. A montage can create a whole new meaning out of the two original meanings of adjacent shots just by coupling them together in a flowing, musical way. This week I am falling quite rapidly behind shecdule as by now I am supposed to be weel on the way with editing, however it is harder than I thought it would be and is taking me extra long. It has also been slightly difficult to get some good fooatge because of the bad weather, most skaters don't come out. Something I should have thought about at the beginning of the project was that I will be filming in Januayr so I could have got more footage before christmas and used it now. For homework I am going to try and get a lot more footage and also watch some other professional documnetaries for inspiration and guidance on how to piece it all together.
9th jan Production Monitoring
This week I have kept on schedule, as I have filled out the contributor release forms and call sheets and have discussed my documentary with people who will be in it and have their permission to use thier footage. I have asked them to be at Billingham 23rd Jan, with all the necessary equipment, where we will film until 7pm. This week I have also completed my shot list, which was slightly difficult as it is a documentary, in a fly-on-the-wall, observational stlye, which means I don't know exactly what will happen in every shot, as I will be filming spontaneous reality. So I have created a basic guide of what I need when filming however, when it comes to editing I will probably change it according to the footage I get. I created my shot list in excel and created columns stating what scene this shot will be in, the shot name, location, type of shot and camera movement, and also a short description of the shot and what knid of effect I want it to achieve and how it should make the audience feel and think, such as; 'The pair of skaters in performance, wide enough to show black-box, theatrical setting, thereby establishing the types of places where they were working "in the early days" - this and next 5 or so shots show some variation in locations and shot scale...change costumes on the pair to create sense of different performances. 3 to 15 secs each clip, total about 30. Continue as abovefor the next 3-6 shots, (fast montage of skaters)' As this took me quite a while to complete, this is all the work I have done this week, homework includes handing out more call sheets and finishing any unfinished planning documents.
20th feb Production Monitoring blog
This week, according to my schedule, I should be completely finished my editing my documentary, however due to logistical problems I have been unable to do this, as I am nearly finished, I will carry on editing next week and hopefully will be finished by the end of next week.
Friday, 2 March 2012
Thursday, 1 March 2012
13th February Production monitoring blog
This week , according to my schedule, I am supposed to be nearly finished however I am quite behind as I have not been able to film as much as I would have liked to and also have not had as much editing time as I needed. Also when I have been editing my documentary, it has taken a lot longer than I thought it would as I am not very good when it comes to using final cut express as I have not had that much experience using it so I have been watching some tutorials on youtube which have helped a little. This week I have been experimenting with different editing techniques such as trying different filters and transistions however it is didfficult to use these and make my documentary look professional, as some of the transitions appear very unskilled and unprofessional, such as the 'page peel' and 'slide'. However I have been successful in creating a gery filter over some of the more emotive shots where I want to convey a certain emotion. It also ttok me a while to import some music into my documentary, as I found it hard to choose and then had problems actually importing it, I also found that error messages that appear in final cut are very confusing and not helpful, however, I eventually did it by going to File > import > file and locate the file.
Dragging the audio file from the browser to the timeline and creating a new track so I didn't lay it on top of existing audio, I then adjusted its length to match the title and used some audio transitions to fade in and fade out.
Dragging the audio file from the browser to the timeline and creating a new track so I didn't lay it on top of existing audio, I then adjusted its length to match the title and used some audio transitions to fade in and fade out.
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