SAVING OUR FINAL OUTCOME!!

After finishing off editing our video, We had to save our final outcome using a certain name for the file and highlighting it in yellow to show that it is our final outcome. 

Overview

From AS I was able to pick up on key skills which helped me to receive a high grade for my coursework. I felt the skills I learnt played a huge part in my knowledge of editing and filming throughout the course. Some of the skills that I learnt include:

• The different variety of shots and the effect they have.
• How to edit using final cut pro.
• How to add filters and other transitions. 
• How to fade shots in and out.
• How to set up equipment such as the tripod. 

Even though I had picked on some key skills, I felt that in AS I made several mistakes that I need to improve on. One of these key factors was focusing the camera. We had several shots that were out of focus and therefore we couldn't use in our final outcome even though the shots were very good.

In A2 this is one of the things I worked on and I felt it went well because all of my shots were in focus. This gave as a more variety of shots to use, where as in AS we had a minimal range of shots to use.
I also felt in A2 I was able to expand my knowledge on and improve on some of the skills I had already learnt. I also felt I learnt new skills which helped made my video interesting to watch.
Some of these skills include:

• How to lay base tracks on the timeline.
• How to mark the base tracks and the song.
• How to make the song and the footage in sync. 
• How to hide certain layers which made it easier to see which shot works better. 
• How to add more effects to our footage. For example how to desaturate some shots.
• I learnt how to change the speed of some shots. 
• How to focus shots better. 
• How to use the pleasantville effect
• How to fade shots on top of one and another by changing the opacity levels.

Air dropping technique, how it benefits us

We learnt how to airdrop, this technique is good because it enables us to do two different things at once such as edit and blog. We used airdrop to screen shot are progress on editing and then send it to the mac where we could blog it as we are doing now with this blog.  Below is a example of a shot we tried effecting and were able to do after various attempts. Also we have included a short video of how the airdrop technique works.

In the editing room

Just a quick minute video of what we're doing today. As the deadline for the music video is tomorrow we have decided to go into the editing room mainly because the 3 screens as this will make our editing process more efficient.

SKILL DEVELOPMENT - New editing skills I have learnt

Over the course of the past few weeks I have learnt many new things in relation to editing skills. Firstly, I became familiar with how to edit a music video overall using basetracks and markers. I wasn't able to do this last year and would have had no clue where to start. Now i know that you have to lay all the basetracks on the timeline - muting the soung as I go along. This makes editing much easier as everything is already there and just needs to be cut/moved whatever the case may be. I am aware that you have to mark a significent lyric in the sound then mark the acting of that lyric in the imagery. You must then line up the markers in order to get the sound matching the visual. Another skill I learnt was how to overlay more than one shot using opacity levels. This is done by clicking the toggle button at the bottom then altering the line that goes through the clips on the timeline

Markers

      

Basetracks

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filming overview - day 5

DAY 5: 

Due to a lack of night shots, we had to film a few shots in the screen room in the dark so that it can suit or structure of the video starting off during the day and ending in the night. We was experimenting with different shots from different angles to see which shot works most effectively in order for the artist to gain an emotional link with the audience. 

filming overview - day 4

DAY 4:

On the fourth day we went to the park to film another base track. We got a variety of shots tracking the artist and we got a wide range of shots. We tracked the artist walking and also filmed him sitting on a bench. We felt this location was effective to suit his working class, urban character.