The Final Product.

Post-Production: Digital Technology

How did your editing go? what would of helped you edit more efectively?



I think the editing stage was the most vital component when puting this video together and easily the hardest. if the editing proccess was not so time consuming i feel that the task would have ran alot more smoothly and therefore better, but thats all apart of gaining greater knowledge of the use of certain technology. i think that the main problem was no one knew what or how to use any of the key tools to edit the video, i for one at the start didnt even know how to get the audio or video on to the timeline. this came as shock to us knowing we had to learn all of the tools in such a small time but nethertheless we got on with it, if any of us had greater or even any knowledge of adobe premeir pro before we started then we would of been able to complete the task alot more easier and our production would have been better but these are the thngs i am going have to consider going into A2.



Specificly - What are the tools and devices used editing tat you felt were particularely useful?



the main tools that i liked to use was the speed/duration tool, cut tool and the crop tool. these were 3 of the vital tools that i used when editing the video and after a while i found it comfortable and easy to use.

Production

What did you learn during the production task?

During the production task i learnt more of how to apply team work and team leadership into the task aswell as learning the difficulties of how much preperation their is needed for a 52 second video, also learnt how to storyboard effectively by gathering up all the needed shots and scripts to put in on our task.

How did the shoot go? what went wrong? what do you need to do to make sure these things dont happen again?

I think the shoot went fairly well with only a few mistakes here an their, the main mistakes were things such as leaving the camera still filming after we had done, lip syncing or singing the wrong words, talking over the film when being recorded and things in the shot that we didnt need, which steph shows perfectly in the picture below.

In the lip syncing exercise before our main mistake which i have stated already a few posts back was the fact that we lip synced to a whole 2 minutes of the music an then found out we hadnt even pressed record! which obviously is just an easily made minor mistake which didnt cost us too much time.
Obviously next time we will be more aware of these minor mistakes and concentrate on getting everyone to do what they need to be doing off the set.

Production: Digital Technology

How did your knowledge of production technology develop?

I feel that my knowledge developed hugely of production technology, i can notice this in myself because when i look back at the start of the task, i did not have a clue how to use adobe premier pro and found it challenging even to use a camera effectively. but now i have learnt many things from this production even fairly simplistic things like how to fade out at the end of the video or how to speed up and change the pitch of the music in the background.
When starting this task i couldnt work out how to even put the tape in or press record, this lead to our lip syncing video having to be made agin because first time round we did not record it, but i think my camera skills have grown hugely.
I also have a much wider knowledge of how to handle the camera to its full use and capture the parts i need, framing them and then to get rid of all the unwanted footage which has also came to give me team leader skills when taking charge off the situation in the task.

What sort of technology skills would you want to develop during the A2 year?

I would like to spend more time on adome premier pro as i feel that if i spent some more time on the programme i could come to terms with it and then be able to use it alot more effectively and fast paced which would aid me keeping on track with my other work.

Research and Planning.

Before we started to film the busted task we created a storyboard of every single shot that we were going to do and wrote down what type of shots they were, the next thing we did was to make a shooting script where we would get all the proper shots of the real video and select people from the class as the cast members and get them to bring the right props in on the right days.

Which of the planning tasks was most useful?

Getting the class to lip sync to a selected song was very useful as it gave us an idea of how we were going to go about doing it and showed the difficulty of the task of lip syncing was especially to a song which alot of us did not know the lyrics to. i think the most useful task was actually trying to merge the original track with our lip syncing video as it showed us that its not simple but made us more familiar with the programme adobe premier pro.

What kinds of planning did you wish you done more of?

I think we needed a bit more preperation of learning the music and in which order the shots and scenes were in, also trying to keep cast members up to date as some times some of the cast members didnt know what days they were meant to bring what in even though their was a sheet provided.

What kinds of planning do you expect to be doing during the A2 year?

I think the planning in the A2 year needs to be more thorough and up to date because if you fall behind it is then harder to get back on track especially if the work we are doing is quite detailed, I think the planning will be relatively the same but we will be alot more knowledgable therefore more able to keep on track with the tasks we are doing. next year we will definatly have to plan out our time distribution, storyboarding and shooting scripts as these are 3 of the vital things to making our task successful.

Introduction.

After we came back from our media exams we all had 2 summer tasks to do, the first being a lip syncing task where we would work with another person and video ourselves lip syncing to a chosen song. The second task was for the whole class to remake shot for shot the first 50 seconds of busted "that's what I go to school for" in Adobe premiere pro.