This summary post was originally written for a practical exercise undertaken in the Planning and Making a Film module I undertook in the penultimate year of my BA (Hons). The module's practice was undertaken between October 2011 to June 2012 and it provided me with a hugely enriching experience. For a more detailed overview of the module and the projects I undertook as a part of it, see Planning and Making a Film: The student filmmaking experience.
28/11/2011
The other group (Sanne, Tom, Danny and Flo), from the second
half of production, were having trouble with logging and capturing their
footage. Therefore, we were still not able to start editing our cut of their
footage, so we used this session to tighten up what we had already done.
Other than offering the occasional creative suggestion, the
only real contribution I made was fixing the shots I had messed up. This I did
once Emily (editor) and Jenny (director) had finished what they were doing; I
spent about an hour and a half doing this.
As I have already said in a previous post there were some
issues with exposure, focus and framing. However, the only one that was in
desperate need of fixing was the exposure. This involved brightening a few of
the shots; this would have been better to do before Jenny and Emily started
editing, because I would have been able to fix the shots as a whole and not as
separate cuts. However, I looked on YouTube for a tutorial video to help me in
this respect and this one proved to do the job.
However, once I had brightened them, the problem I then
found was that it then de-colourised the shots and made them look like they had
a faint smog across them. Therefore, I then had to put some colour back into
the shots, and this tutorial video helped in that respect. While the these
shots now look a lot better they are still far from perfect and I need to be
shown how to properly use colour correction.
29/11/2011
As Jenny couldn’t make this day, Emily came in to edit a
rough cut of the other group’s footage on her own. I briefly dropped by to see
how she was doing and if she needed anything. She said that the fact that the
other group had broken the 180 degree rule made the assembling of shots quite
confusing. However, this was her only qualm and she said she didn’t need
anything, so I left her to it. I understand from Jenny that Emily produced
quite a good rough cut that day.
01/12/2011 &
02/12/2011
I know also that Emily and Jenny came in on the Thursday and
Friday to finish the overall cut. I didn’t attend these sessions because there were
not any shots that needed fixing. I understand that they have completed a final
cut, but if this includes a music soundtrack I do not know.
On Monday 5th December all the members of the
Planning and Making a Film module will sit down to review the many versions of Where will it all stop. Then I will get
to see what the entirety of our first short film looks like; I am excited by and
dreading this prospect.
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