Production Log: Week 3

Week Three:
This week we had started filming. As a group we decided that Daniel did not want to be recorded so I would be acting, alongside Raj and James. Raj was only used for the beginning as the camera was lifted over the back of someone’s head. I was doing the role of Tommy from Snatch. It was pretty easy as there was no talking it was simply actions however the difficult part was synchronising it with the video.

After it was all recorded I had done all the editing by myself because I’ve edited and made videos for YouTube before so I knew the editing techniques. On the school mac I chose to edit on iMovie as this is what I had previously used for my YouTube videos. During the editing I had to pick all the useful clips because some shots were taken many times and delete the useless clips. This was so that I know which ones to use. After that I had to put a number on each video so I know in what order to upload the videos so that when I combine them all they all flow. After adding all the videos on their order I had to put transitions after the end of each clip so that the person watching does not realise that there was an animation to the next scene. It all flows. After then combining the videos and adding the transitions I exported the video so it’s all one video. Then once I had a full video I put that into iMovie and started to add sounds and filters. This was to make it seem really realistic. After watching the finished version over a few times I did find a few faults in the editing sector. These were that there were too many of the same transactions used so it gets really boring. However by this time it was too late as it was uploaded to our YouTube channel.

Another fault I found was when I was using the “less shaky” editing feature on iMovie it did not really make the video less shaky. In fact it made it worse because in some scenes you can see that the background is moving and the actual actor is not moving. So it was a bit confusing I do not know whether it was a fault on my side or if it’s a fault with iMovie. I think this because the iMacs had all been updated to the latest firmware therefore there could be a few bugs on the software and maybe the less shaky feature was one of the issues.