Tuesday, May 25, 2010
Day 14 of Senior Project
Monday, May 24, 2010
Day 13 of Senior Project
Sunday, May 23, 2010
Weekly Reflection
I enjoyed this week much more then the week before. Editing can take you anywhere. It is what you make out of the footage you have. The week before consisted of walking around and gathering all of the footage we needed. Following people from class to class to driving around campus to get shots of buildings was what our first week consisted of.
This week we took this ordinary footage and pieced it together to make art. There are parts in our video that reflect the lyrics of the song by the special effects that we used. For instance part of the lyrics in our song are “ Twisting my stomach into knots.” For that part of the video we took footage of someone running down the hill at Polar Swim and overlapped faded, rotated clips to have the effect of a knot.
This week I learned so much more about Final Cut Pro and cool editing effects you can do with it. There are things in our video that I never thought were possible. We have a shots of Orlando and Will Cudahy spitting on the mic. We faded both clips and put them on top of each other. Because they were shot from different angles it worked out beautifully. I wish that I could list all of the special effects that we used but that would be spoiling the video for all of you so that is all I will tell you about.
I also learned there is a program where you can fix or change the color of anything in your video. This editing software is called Color. This was thanks to a few lessons with Sam Johnson during his independent major class with Jim Cox. I new one could change anything in a still photo using photoshop but I didn’t know that it was possible to do that for a video. I didn’t use it very much in our video. I fixed two different shots where the camera had focused on the light in the window making the window brighter and the rest of the room darker then it actually was. Other then that I just learned that it is possible to change the color of someone shirt or the wall in a room. It is also possible to tint the whole shot a different color. It would be possible to make a shot look like one is looking through night vision goggles.
Although I may not use Final Cut again to make a video it has still be a blast learning new things about the software and making the video. Having a completed video is great accomplishment that I will enjoy looking back on later in life.
hours worked: 24.5
Time Posted: 11:35
Friday, May 21, 2010
Day 11 of Senior Project
Thursday, May 20, 2010
Day 10 of Senior Project
Wednesday, May 19, 2010
Day 9 of Senior Project
Tuesday, May 18, 2010
Day 8 of Senior Project
Day 6/7 of Senior Project
Monday, May 17, 2010
Weekly Reflection
This week was filled with learning experiences. One after another, they seemed to come at us rapid fire. The first day consisted of dying cameras, running out of tapes and struggling to import. Because of the day we had just had, we remembered to charge the cameras each night and ask Jim for more tapes. I learned so much about the difficulties of filming. I never knew that it was so hard to keep a camera still while walking. When reviewing the first walking footage I took, I saw that it looked like an earthquake had hit Andover, NH. As the week went on, the footage got better and looked less shaky. One of our goals was to finish all the filming in the first week. This goal was accomplished.
As we started editing I realized how much I had to learn. Final Cut movie editing program is very complicated and I have many shortcuts to learn. So far I have learned the basics of how to select part of a clip and drag it onto a timeline. Durning next week, I will learn much more about editing as that is the focus of our week.
There were definitely some bumps in the road of our first week on senior project. The tapes were probably one of our biggest issues. We, in the beginning, were running out of them. Then when we had plenty of them, our next problem was remembering what footage was on what tape and what we had imported or not. We didn’t want to tape over anything that we took the time to film but hadn’t imported yet. We also didn’t think about how someone in one of the classes hosted in the tech lab might have been using the same computer we are before we started senior project. So we have to leave the tech lab every D block to let the student use it for his class.
I have gained much knowledge this week about filming and being organized that I will benefit from. I am learning how much footage is actually needed to make a decent two minute video. I have learned how hard it is to keep my hand still when filming. In the week to come, I will be much more organized and on top of things. Being behind on emailing students to shadow last week cost me some essential filming time.
Hours worked: 25.5
Time posted: 10:29