Our third and final rotation was the one I was looking forward to the most; video production. I have done some video production before from when I was doing AS Levels, so I knew what to expect, and that I would enjoy this project.
On the Monday we did a lot of theory to back up what we would be filming on the Wednesday. The theory we did consisted of looking over camera shots / angles, techniques we could use to make the film appear exciting (diagonals, lines, curves, etc), rules of filming (180 rule, rule of 1/3's), etc. Everything we learnt on the Monday would help us make our 8 shot journey's visually exciting and would boost our grades significantly in the future. A lot of the information we learnt on Monday was stuff I had previously learnt in Sixth Form, so for me it was just revising what I already knew, with a few things I didn't. I really enjoyed learning the theory of the filming as I knew that this would help me in the future and I found it really helpful and enjoyable.
On the Tuesday we didn't have to be in until half 1, so I got a lay in =D =D But when we did go into college we did a hierarchy of the most important jobs in film production, and we watched a scene from a film that demonstrated the different jobs involved in a production. We also designed our 8 shot journey and what we would be filming. We created a storyboard to help us when we came to filming, as it would help us get through the filming process quickly and smoothly, due to the fact that we would have locations and camera shots written down, so we can quickly get on with the shot successfully.
On Wednesday we striped our tape, which is where you film over the tape with the lens-cap still on, so that you get an uniterrupted piece of footage that has a new time code. This will make it easier to edit at a later date. And so then we went out filming! It was so much fun! This was, in my opinion, the best rotation by far, and I really enjoyed everything about it.
On the Thursday we logged our clips, and then we edited our 8 shot journey on Final Cut Pro. Final Cut Pro was really simple and easy to use; it was literally just dragging, dropping and cutting in and out points for each clip we wished to use. I'm not usually very handy with a computer and programs such as these, but I found Final Cut Pro really simple and as soon as I started to get into the swing of things, it went really quickly and I managed to finish editing within the hour. I really enjoyed editing the 8 shot journey as it made everything we learnt come together and it brought my ideas and knowledge together. I was really proud of my work when I saw the finished prodcut, and I felt that I had really achieved what was asked.
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