Wednesday, April 24, 2013

Reflective: Story boards, filming logs and iMovie


This week, which is also the last week before the documentary is due (time flies so quickly!), is to be spent focusing on editing the video. Here, things we learnt in class comes in handy and convenient us when editing our videos.

Last week, we learnt about story boarding where we draw out what we picture a scene to be. Story boarding proves to be very useful as we can get to explore new ideas and perspectives. Furthermore, it also saves us a lot of time when editing the video as we already have a picture of what we want to achieve, thus making us more organized.

We also used a filming log for our raw footage. Filming logs are records of what happens during the video, its duration and whether it is good quality footage or not. These are extremely useful when editing videos as we can refer to the filming logs to find out when a person talks about something that we want instead of having to watch the entire video to find that specific  clip which is very time efficient.

The extra practice we had with iMovie during classes allowed us to be able to edit our videos using iMovie with minimal amount of problems (having a group member who is very familiar with iMovie also helps a whole lot!). During this time, we experimented with transitions, audio and video editing, adding in B-roll and texts. We also found out that having background music is unnecessary when the interviewees are talking as it would only distract the audience.

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