EDITING DIARY

Editing Diary

Day One

We captured our project by using a fire-wire attached to our camera.  We attached the fire-wire into the IMac before clicking onto the programme Final Cut.  We then rewound the tape in the camera and clicked on file and capture.  We then clicked play on the camera and clicked now on capture which allowed us to upload the footage we had filmed. 

The first thing that we had to do was to cut out all the mistakes that we had filmed.  This took quite a long time as we had filmed many takes of each shot due to laughing too much!  We used the razor tool to cut on the timeline and for fine editing we used the in and out on the browser.

Ahmed Nasser

FILM DIARY

1. Day one:  We have just started to film our media project; we chose to film our second scene first due to the lack of equipment available. We chose to film the scene where the two main characters are speaking about their personal problems on a park bench.
2. Day two: we still weren’t able to film our opening scene so we moved on to our third. We chose the green room in the school premises to shoot our scene. We were filming another conversation but this time it was between the drug baron and his worker. An intense scene like this needed firm camera skills, so we experimented with different camera shots, such as the over the shoulder shot and a low angle shot.
3. Day three:  as we have missed out our opening scene, we got the equipment needed to revert back to filming it. We moved to a different location, a quiet alleyway where the chosen shot would come to its full potential. We had to create artificial blood for the scene, we did this buy purchasing tomato ketchup, water and brown sauce, with a minute of stirring, our blood was created. Then we swiftly moved on to filming the scene.