Preliminary Film

This is our complete Preliminary Exercise. We imported the raw footage on the DV tape onto the macs and began editting using imovie. I thought this was going to be rather difficult but suprisingly we managed to complete it within around half an hour which we were very happy about.

Whilst filming we had to film the task several times from different angles so that we were able to include different shots. So, during the editting process we used different parts from each shot and merged them together to produce a complete video consisting of the different angled shots.

This was rather tricky as at times during a few shots we were corpsing! Therefore, we had to delete the unwanted parts and replace them using the same footage from another shot. This is why it is so important to film more rather than less footage and so that it is easier to edit afterwards. We kept previewing our clips to ensure that it runs smoothly and looks like one whole shot rather than several different ones.

During my first experience of editting my own footage I learnt a few things that will help me when filming my opening two minute film. One of which that we certainly need to film more footage rather than less so that we do not have problems when editting and finding mistakes then realising that we only filmed that part once. Also, that during edditing the idea of continuity is extremely important because if it is no portrayed correctly as real life time then the video looses the idea of realism.