Preliminary task (Miss Georgiou)

For this task my group consisting Ravinder Cheema, James Barry and myself were sent off to film and edit our first ever clip. The clip was to be small and be no longer than a minute long but was to set in place to give a better understanding of our main task to come and allow us a chance to get more familiar with the filming equipment and camera whether being in front of behind it. It also gave us a chance to use an editing programme to give us a greater knowledge on how it works and the steps that go into making the clip. By doing this it should benefit our final clip and main task as we were able to have a test run on the whole process we are about to begin.

For the filming Miss Georgiou put in place a few details our clip had to feature so we had at least a narrative to play around with. It involved filming and editing a character walking and opening a door, crossing the room to join another character, before having a few lines of dialect and exiting the room. This was the only guidelines put in place so the location, cinematography and dialogue content was down to us. However to make our clip as best and professionally we could we all agreed to include as many as we could, however only where appropriate to the shot.

After filming our short clip we then returned to our classroom and uploaded our video content onto the macs. After funnelling through the clips we had shot to ensure the best ones were used we inserted them into the editor and arranged them into order. Once that step had been carried out it was time for us to edit the shots to try and merge them as seamlessly together as possible. To do so we soon realised a lot of the shots needed to be cut accordingly to stop our whole clip becoming one big jump shot. Carrying out this step we realised how hard this step was as we were unfamiliar with the editing software however nearing the end of the task we could all spot where clips needed to be edited or cut further and had a greater understanding of how to make the final product as good as possible as editing, as we found when filming out clip, can make or break a scene.