Group video editing

In lesson we were put into groups of three and asked to come up with an idea for a storyboard for a 30 second film. We also had to think about our shooting order and the length of shot before we started filming to cut down on filming time. We then, individually, had to make our own storyboard with only long shots, close ups or extreme shots. I made a storyboard with extreme shots only - on the storyboard below the extreme shots are 2, 5, 7 and 10. We had to make them as clear as possible because another group was going to edit the film we shot. Sharon told us about drawing different types of arrows to suggest movement of the camera and movement of the actors and props when filming.

Shooting Order

Long shots - 1. 4. 8.

Extreme shots - 2. 5. 7. 10.

Close ups - 3. 6. 9.

Length of Shot

3 seconds - 1. 3. 4. 6. 7. 8.

4 seconds - 2. 5.

5 seconds - 9.

6 seconds - 10

Our group was then given another groups footage and storyboard and we had to edit it. using Final Cut. I think in the hour we had to edit we did well to get transitions pretty much in time although we didn't have chance to put the video to music and it's odd to listen to it in silence so put some music on when you watch it! I learnt some useful tips about Final Cut like how to speed tracks up and reverse them, how to fade in and out and some useful keyboard shortcuts aswell, mostly that the space bar is play and stop. I also refreshed my memory on how to capture video from a video tape, and found that having to fast forward and rewind to each point that you wanted to capture very laborious and quite confusing. Also when using the camera to film our storyboard we all found it difficult to view back what we had filmed which I think is an imporant and helpful tool. Comparing it to my digital video camera it takes much longer to use when filming and when capturing video in Final Cut. All I have to do with my camera is upload the video files then import them to final cut which I find much easier. It would be interesting to know how other people compare video tape cameras and digital video cameras. There must be a reason why all proffesional film footage is filmed with tape and the transition to digital video hasn't arrived yet.

I also tried uploading this video below onto my youtube account and found that it only took a couple of minutes in comparison to bloggers 40 minute waiting time. From now on I will always upload my videos onto YouTube first them just embed the code into my blogger posts. This video has had five views so far!