First Screening!

This week has been a big push with the edit of the swimming Documentary 'Fighting Chance'
The entire team have been working to get the story right, concise and ultimately within three minutes!

Thursday afternoon was the first screening with guest lecture Jeremy Gibson present to give us some of his vast experience and feedback.
The film was received well and the few suggestions made were very useful and will be work on early next week before hand in.

It was great to finally see it on the big screen and to have the chance to appraise it as a final piece. When you edit something it is easy to focus on the points your working on and you need to take a step back. After the last two days working on colour grading and sound in Pro Tools It was nice to stand back and view the hard work in the context of the final edit.

For more information on Jeremy Gibson please look at his production company - sevenstones media
http://www.sevenstonesmedia.com/index.htm

AVID

Week by week I have been doing the AVID tutorials to learn how to use the editing software correctly, Avid unlike Final cut pro or Premiere doesn't really have a compatible system that makes it easy to switch between so it has been a frustrating, at times, and steep learning curve!

Below is the last link to output settings which is a great help for exporting all your hard work....

http://www.avid.com/US/avid-tv/MC5BuildingtheFinalOutput?elq_mid=4064&elq_cid=6845073

Jibs, Cranes and Wolly Dolly's

The 3 minute wonder im working on as Producer and sound engineer is based around swimming education within the United Kingdom, I came up with an opening sequence that has a very visual content and will lead up to the opening titles and hopefully suck the audience in.

Problem is it requires the use of multiple camera angles and the ability to follow a professional swimmer in a pool.

No pressure then!

To help us achieve this Michaela (camera) and myself, booked out the Jibs and cranes and practised in the television studio on saturday. Working through the shot lists and recreating swimmers by pushing ourselves along on a chair!

The JVC 700 Attached to the jib, this was the final setup that we decided to use for the filming in the coming weeks.

If you look closely in the screen of the JVC you can see myself on the chair pretending to be a swimmer!

AVID!

Every week I continue to work on AVID to build a better understanding of this editing platform.
Its beginning to come together and the website has proved to be a valuable resource for tips and tricks to get the best out of the software.

Below is a couple more useful links for editing regarding camera shake and motion freeze!

http://www.avid.com/US/avid-tv/MC5StabilizingShakyFootage?elq_mid=4062&elq_cid=6845073


http://www.avid.com/US/avid-tv/MC5CreatingFreezeFramesMotionClips?elq_mid=4062&elq_cid=6845073

I will be continuing to post these through the coming weeks so please check them out!

Vimeo

As we start to move into working on unit 120 and 130 I have uploaded the main films that I worked on for unit 110

Please check them out and comment on what you think!

http://vimeo.com/user7102010

Britain in a day at Land's End!

Morgan matthews Britain in a day project seemed too good an opportunity to miss, so my friends and I took a little drive out to Land’s end to film ourselves answering various questions, posted on the website, under the now infamous mileage sign!

Michaela filmed the journey and we were very fortunate that the guy who runs the photographing post changed the name to ‘Britain in a Day’ and was seemingly happy to let us fool around answering questions whilst trying to look as natural as possible. Epic Fail at the beginning!

A big thank you to Michaela, Alice and Vicky for a great day and hopefully our hard work will be rewarded with a small snippet on BBC2!