Wednesday, November 24, 2010

Post production

After filming we came together as groups to start editing what we had into something, which resulted in me, Harley, Aidan, Neil and Andy working together. everyone had groups of lots of people, because of the lack of equipment available. Me and Haley were the main editors of the footage, i edited up to the band shots, and then Harley took over for the rest and corrected some major out of sync problems. We followed this all from our storyboard of shots, which we had written onto the times of the shots amongst other important features. Some of the bigger problems we came across included some big continuity errors, the biggest one of which was the light being turned off by the teacher, followed by the students sat in the classroom with lights on. To solve this we had to use Imovies contrasting features to make it look like they were sat in dark. Even though you can tell it is an edited effect when watching the video, it's better than a big continuity error like it was before we changed it. Editing did take it's time, and having edited in the way we did i made my decision, that no matter what i ended up doing in media, i wasn't doing it in imovie.

Production

so this is my massively overdue production post for the busted video, and since I've only just found a moment to do this I'm going to have to do it briefly and get it out of the way:
For production we first of all cast the crew and the actors their roles, then headed to our locations. first we filmed all of the acting scenes, such as upstairs the e learning centre where we had the teacher walking through the middle of the classroom, and then the students sitting down together and the rest of the classroom shots. There were some minor continuity errors in this section of filming but we managed to fix this in editing, even with imovie. After those narrative shots were taken we moved onto the performance based shots outside next to the library, where the band members were leading a group of students who were dancing in the background. this took quite a few shots to get right, even though in the end we got it right. There is not much else to say about the production side of things, shooting is about as far as it goes.