Preliminary Task

Introduction

This is my preliminary task which we had to do in order to asses our own ability at more editing more than acting capability.' however we managed to do both to the best of are ability. It took us a while since we were new to the whole editing aspect of media and i think its good that we got to do this task because it got us ready for what yet to come. It was because it was our first time doing this that we did in fact come across some issues at times.

My experience as a novice

At first when i saw Final Cut (which is a software designed to help you edit your videos) I was completely baffled by the mechanics and just the visual look of it :

Of course, i was ready to take on the up coming task and i had previous editing knowledge from GIF's so once i had a good look at it i had a brief understanding of how it worked. After the software was introduced to us properly, I then had a better insight on where every i needed was and how it worked. We edited a dummy video which was no yet edited to get the hang of using this programme. After an hour or so, i was a lot more confident in using Final Cut.

The Delay

The following week, we began to make our own videos in groups of 3. Unfortunately my group did not have the privilege of 3 members; instead we had only my working partner and myself. With one member short, we had to do heavy improvisation and would record and pause the tape when we wanted to get into another shot. The most catastrophic thing about this day was that we had re winded back to see what we had filmed which in effect made our video have massive blank spaces in between. We did not have knowledge of this until the end of the lesson, which ultimately delayed our editing time.

The outcome

Once we had sorted out this issue, it was amusing to see our out takes and interesting to see our work on the screen. To be honest i now give credit to actors for doing what they do because we done at least 10 takes on just half a scene at one stage, but we got there in the end. We would then arrange and crop out what we didn't want and use a variety of the same scene to make up on big scene. An example is when i was walking through the door. It too 4 scenes to just get me into the room and to sit down. The different shots added to the feel of the video.