Editing

Much like last Wednesday and Thursday we have been editing all week, during our lessons, lunchtimes and study periods to get our product to the highest standard possible. As of yet, everything is going well.

Editing

Basically Rachel and I have been trying to get onto the Apple Mac's as much as possible to ensure that we get all editing done by the deadline set. Therefore, we spent an hour yesterday and an hour today trying to out the footage onto the time line on Final Cut Express and fitting it with beat of the music. We also have continuously been adding effects, transitions and all sorts, experimenting to get the best result.

Upload & Editing

Rachel and I spent today uploading the footage we filmed on Friday which consisted of the 10 minute sequence of the tramp on a bench sleeping, eating and drinking. We also had enough time to import the footage onto Final Cut Express and start cutting footage to add onto the timeline and changing the saturation colour to black and white and also increase the speed of the footage.

Tramp, Hobo, Homeless Person?

Tramp and hobo are both probably derogatory terms/considered as slang so we will agree on homeless person. Today Rachel and I (as we both had a double free) to film the scene of a homeless person during school. We went back to my house, nabbed some clothes used for decorating and gardening and felt that I appeared good enough to be a stereotypical homeless person.

We originally planned to film in Audley End Park as there was a bench which would have been perfect but unfortunately it had been removed (probably stolen) so we went to our back up plan and used a standard street bench. We filmed for 10 minutes non stop as the purpose of this footage is to speed it up by at least 100 %. Looking back at the footage on the camera, Rachel and I both agree that it looks great and we will use it. During editing we will also make the scene black and white.

Uploading... Again

We uploaded the footage yet again, that is after we found our SD card as me and Rachel thought the other one had it but apparently not... However, when we went to begin editing we found that the 'letter boxing' was still there. (ANGER) We found that zooming in on the footage would remove the 'letter boxing' but it reduced the frame of the footage considerably. We purposely included my whole body using a long shot during filming so the audience would connote me being alone. As this proved unsuccessful we decided that we would not use the footage we filmed over the two days, although many people said it was good footage. We also felt that it did  not relate to the lyrics or genre of 'Searching For The Sun In The Dark' therefore will start filming immediately footage that appears more relevant, beginning tomorrow.

Editing

As our footage was now uploaded to the Mac we thought Rachel and I would straight away be able to starting editing. However, a dilemma that we were faced with was our footage being 'letter boxed' resulting in the clips being cut to a smaller size due to the border omitting the shots. We tried to overcome this through editing but were unsuccessful. We then deleted all our footage to re upload to see if it was a setting we may have selected.

Back To School - Uploading

We were back to school today so we pretty much spent our Media lesson uploading our footage we filmed over the Christmas Holiday to the Macs and converting the clips to DV files. From here we exported them into Final Cut Pro so we could begin adding them to our music timeline.