Construction: Day 2 editing

Today in our lesson me and my partner decided we should start to think about creating the non diagetic sound for our opening.  The software which we were told to use was called Garage Band. This was the first time I had used garage band so obviously it was hard to find our way round the software and eventaully came up with a small practice sound which helped us understand more about how to use garage band and how to create better sounds.

Construction: Editing day 1

Today we started editing our first part of our film. The things we needed to start to do today was the very basics, these basics were to construct an idea of what the clips would look like when put together.  However we came across a problem as we started dragging the clips into the timeline the clips will become cropped, we are hopeful that this problem will be solved so we will keep putting the clips together so we have an idea what it should look like.  

Construction: Editing some clips

In todays lesson we finally got our hands on final cut express and started to learn the basics of the software. The basics we learnt we things such as how to cut a piece of clip and also how to add effects such as music and text. We were given  couple of clips which we filmed in class earlier so we could edit them together and make a short video, we were allowed to change where the clips go and how long the clips go on for. Below are some pictures of the editing software we used...














Our final edited piece of film didn't look professional however it is a good starting block as we learnt how to edit in the most simplest form. We aim to us these techniques when we start to edit our final preliminary task.

Research: Final Cut Express introduction

The Social Network was edited by Final Cut Pro.

As we have finished our filming, we are now able to edit our clips using a professional editing software called Final Cut Express. Final Cut Express is a software which allows a person to edit their video clips from colour correction to sound editing, it also allows the clips to be rendered into HD so that the clips are at the best of their quality. Final Cut has been used over the years by professional film makers to edit their multi-million pound film, films such as The Social Network movie and The Kids Will Be Alright used Final Cut x to edit their film and both were nominated at the Golden Globes last year for best movie.

You are able to buy Final Cut x for a pricy £500 but is it worth it? The following are some of the best features which can be used through it:

• Multichannel Audio Editing
• Unified importing
• Streamlined share
• Dual viewing screens
• RED camara support
• Copy and paste attributes
• One step freeze frames
• Flexible clip connections
• Drop shadow
• Enhanced compound clips

As you can see Final Cut has a wide variety of different new features, so many I haven't named them all. Below is a tutorial on an introduction on how to edit.

Construction: Day 3 Filming

Our third and final day of filming took place on the Thursday 21st Febuary.

Location:
Today we filmed in 3 different places, we started at the exit of Kettering Buccleuch academy, we then made our way to the path outside of school, finally we finished off filming outside of a house.

What we done?:
We needed to capture footage of our main character walking home from school, because of the various different flashbacks we filmed each shot individually instead of one long scene and cutting it when editing, this would make the edited film look more professional when played. We also waited a while until the sun came out so that the clips from when we first started filming matched.  

Construction: Day 2 Filming

Our second filming session took place on the Tuesday 12th February

Location:
Today we started filming in my partners garage.

What we done?:

We started filming the flashbacks which would occur during the opening 2 minutes, we were very cautious about mise-en-scene during filming as we had to make the garage seem a lot more secluded and creepy, we also planned out what the characters would wear so they would match the scary theme. Yet again we made sure we had at least each shot filmed 2-3 times in different angles so that we had a variety to edit with. We are planning to do our final set of filming soon.

Construction: Day 1 Filming

We started filming on Wednesday 6th February.
Location
We started filming our first part of our horror film at the main entrance of Kettering Buccleuch Academy.
What we done?
Today we started filming the first opening shots for our 2 minute opening, we familiarize ourselves with the equipment such as the camera and the tripod so that we knew the ins and outs before actually filming. During filming we used different shot techniques such as over-shoulder shot and also tracking shot. We filmed each shot around 2-3 times so that we have a lot of footage when it comes to editing and also filmed some shots in different angles to see what it would look like when we put the clips together. So far we have filmed around 20 seconds of footage.

Day 2 of filming will start during the half term break..