Extremily Time-Consuming Editing!!!!

Started Editing:   17/1/11

Finished Editing: 10/3/11
 Background of Macintosh and I

 We have been editing for about 4 weeks going on five for our video, at first the Macintosh interface was a bit hard to get used to, additionally a new program such as final cut pro.
 I have used Macintosh systems before and do have a 2-3 years experience of using them in a previous school, however this was 2 years ago and i haven't really used them since, so getting used to them again didn't take too long but Final Cut Pro was briefly introduced to me by a friend a while back but i didn't really research into more unaware that i will be using for a media a level so it was as if it was completely new to me. 

Cutting down 1.5-2hours of Film to 2mins.....AHHH!!!!!! 
 So when we first started editing, we looked what we captured and how certain parts were going to be shown and where they were going to be placed. It was then we discovered that we have at least 1.5 hours of film altogether but I was pleased with this, as i came to the conclusion we had a lot of film to choose from and editing would take a long time but a lot of effort will pay off. As i was camera-man myself and i filmed so of the video personally, I was shocked by the errors that were made but wasn't too concerned because i  had less editing to do, as we had many bunches of film. However I was disappointed by some errors because some parts of film i really liked shooting and was looking forward to using/including them for the final piece but as they had errors i couldn't use them. For example when I took film equipment to my main building for learning a levels which was a secondary school. It was here I shot the flashback scene. With euthanized year sevens whose acting skills weren't Oscar-winning performances but were good regarding that they were  no more than under 12 such short notice. I filmed different parts of the scene in so many angles and the some of best angles i had to give up unfortunately because i could be seen in a reflection of a nearby window (shown in the shot). If it was a slight reflection i may have been able to work around it but as it was blatant that i was filming in the shot i had to dispose of them. If we had discovered that I did this as soon as we started filming I could asked the young actors to perform once again to be observed by the eye of the camera, but I discovered this a week after filming and i had required a lot of the young students time already so I had to deal with what I had, favorably I didn't have any parts missing from the actual storyline because other angles of unusable shots were available to make use of.

  Now when I had selected all film that i thought was necessary I had 4minutes of film of a rough draft, then i was reminded that the examiner set aim was only two minutes so I had to get rid of two minutes of film without losing what makes our opening sequence unique. I also had to regard that the plot had to be preserved so the 2minutes version had to be sharper, be better than the rough copy and still make the plot clear to the audience at first watch.  I see this is from a professional perspective, so if we fail to capture the audiences attention and inform them with a basic background of the main character or what the film is about/to expect. No matter what grade we receive for our project we have failed as film-makers, this realisation placed pressure on me to make sure that our film met professional standards and didn't use our 'limited' media equipment as an excuse for looking primitive. After a week of editing I had the inhabited the success of cutting down the film to 2minutes but.......IT STILL LOOKED PRIMITIVE, so I looked at what effect we originally wanted to go for and what films and scenes were our main inspirations. Then I started to look the effects of stronger contrasts and enhancing highlights that just make the film look more cinematic and interesting. I also kept in mind that while I was adding effects I wasn't overdoing the editing and letting it mix well with film and other effects featured in the film and not just showing off my ability on final cut pro. I was pleased with the final result of adding these effects to the film as the changes made the film look more professional and not like a camcorder production.

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