I found that capturing our footage was difficult in some aspects as some of the clips we had made did not go to plan. When filming we made a lot of mistakes, we filmed around ten minutes of footage and cut it down to two minutes, this took quite a long time rather than being more organized with our shooting schedule. Capturing the footage was fairly easy as are shot angles were listed down and we had gone with our instinct on what would be most appropriate for our clip.
The main difficulty of filming our clip was continuity; the room we had filmed in had many objects that could have been moved around to make the next shot look out of place. When filming the main focus I concentrated on was staying consistent with continuity and making no vital errors that were noticeable, in a few of our clips we had noticed that objects were in different places so we did have to re-film small parts of the clip just to make it right. In our group we all worked together well to avoid any continuity problems, when we were filming we reminded each other not to adjust any objects as the next few clips would be different from the first couple of clips, this would have looked un-professional.
We discovered that there were more errors in our film, we had spent far too long trying to make the clip perfect by adjusting the setting and feel of the room, this made us forget about the angles and continuity of the clip so we had to re-plan and make the clips suit our film. We plugged the camera into the USB, we then uploaded all the footage to Adobe Premier and this is where we edited all the footage. I had some past experience with editing so I new the basics of how to put clips together and how to add affects, this helped me a lot as my group didn’t have this experience. As I had filmed for a hobby I enjoy the editing and it gave me the basics of putting clips together, adding effects, and putting in sounds and titles. When are group got the hang of how to use Adobe Premier then we cracked on, we all found out that editing is more simple then people make it out to be and consists of adding clips together and adjusting them so they suit the final outcome of the film. The main difficulty we found when editing was straight cuts, we found that cutting the film down was a challenge as we had to make the film flow and for it to be consistent, when we were cutting the clips down we had trouble putting the clips together, after was had cut the clip down then the clip before this would have been separate making there be a pause and then it goes to the next clip, we then discovered there were pauses and errors so we found out why and it was because of clips we uploaded were to long for the film.
In our film we added two transitions, this was fade out and fade in, these transitions worked very well as they suited are film. We added transitions by clicking on effects, transitions and then fade in or fade out; we used these transitions as they were very effective for the clip we used them for. I think that using fade in and fade out was a great idea, it makes the clip look professional and we used both transitions appropriately making the outcome successful. We did not add music as it was inconvenient, we realized that there was no need in adding music or sound clips as we wanted the film to be professional, we did think of adding sound effect but this would have been a waste of time. At the end of the film we did add in credits, we needed to do this just to show the viewers who made the film and just to add to the ending, we added the credits by clicking the text box in the far left hand of the Adobe Premier software, it was a easy process that took no time at all.
Evaluation
The final outcome of are film was ok, there were many improvement to be made but in our group it was mostly everyone’s first go at editing and making a small film, it was a challenge for most of us but we tried our hardest and enjoyed it very much. We stuck with the criteria well and had objectives to achieve; we tried our hardest to focus on continuity and to keep objects in the same position, this was the main aspect we stuck with a tried to make it consistent. We tried to make our film fairly simple, by doing this we didn’t add many transactions and effects, are focus was to make a film fairly professional, we achieved this in our group as we all worked together well and stuck with our objectives.
