Editing

I wasn't able to put anything on the blog yesterday so i am in at my lunch time now writting up what we did yesterday and doing some more editing. Some of the files that we have off one camera are not playing properly in premier pro. I think is because thes school computers are slow so i am hoping that it will smooth out when i export the file. In our team we are concerntrating on each others strong points and spreading the work load evenly. I am happy editing i like that side of the project and the others are doing story boards and scripts, i have contributed to one of the story boards and made a document of screenshots that i am meaning to upload. Dug has been coming in and working with me on the editing and i have been showing him what i have been doing.

Editing

Today we were editing the clips that we have recorded trying to piece it together.For filming we used two different cameras which has slightly complicated things because my camera hadnt saved the files in the right format for the software at school so wasn't working correctly to adjust this i will have to take it home and use a format converter. Editing is going well the software that we are using is Adobe cs4 premiur pro, i have never used this software before so i spent about 10 minutes looking at how to use it and getting help from one of the technician staff who was in our lesson. Most of the clips are now edited and put into sequence i really like the software that we have i now find it very easy to use it is less complicated than i thought. I have taken some screen shots of the editing process and will have to anotate those tonight. Tomorrow lunch i am going to spend some time editing in the new clips that i will get tonight off my computer and hopefully should have most of the editing finished by tomorrow.

Filming

Thursday 20th January, today was our main filming session. When filming we changed several camera angles from the original storyboard this was due to the room we were able to use for filming. The orginal plan was to use a sports store and the school premisis however this was unavailable so we used a storebuboard in the social sciences block. I am going to upload a scanned in picture of the new story board. Filming went well today and we got all of our filming done for now, we used two different cameras. I brought in a camera and Steph borrowed one from a friend, these were very useful as they were in HD. No real costumes were needed for the filming it was just normal cloths and Steph brought in some fake blood. All of our team members were here today and gave us the oportunity to confer together on the making of the short film. The team consists of myself James, Dugey, Emma and Steph.

Planning

Starting our final planning and storyboarding for the preliminary task, this is going to be aimed and testing our initial camera and editing skills. I am not a complete novice with camera and editing however do believe it will be a good way of focusing to the main coursework task and become comfortable with editing with the software we have. Today only Steph and I are in the class the other two group members are not here, this may be due to an exam. We already have an initial idea for our task and will be writing up and extending upon it in this lesson.