Editing

On returning from work experience, I wanted to re-film the section of the film that was missing. Unfortunately all the materials and devices I used have been thrown out, so I have no other option but to cover up the hole in the editing. This is a great shame because that section, where a jar spirals downwards and knocks a domino trail of video cassettes, added a unique dynamic and pace change to the sequence. I started editing by transferring all the footage, along with the rough sequence I'd put together, onto another computer so another student could edit her footage. My priority then was to try and seamlessly stitch the two sequences where the other one was missing. To do this I found a Youtube tutorial about keyframes, which I used to zoom in and pan across the piece of footage digitally. This crops the right hand side of the film out so it looks like the string has directly pulled the jar, when in reality there was another sequence in between. I then set about creating an ident to use at the end of mine, and the others', films, which I did using the text features on Final Cut. I also made the end of the film blur out so the text stood out. Here is the finished film:

Filming the Machine

For the last few days I have been helping the other group members with their films, whilst building and preparing for mine. I set it up yesterday and this morning I was ready to start filming it. I quickly realised that it wasn't going to work all the way through, and if I wanted to film it like that it would take forever. As a result I decided to film all the individual sections and edit them together. This is NOT cheating, as the machine definitely does works as a whole, in theory. It went as smoothly as I could have hoped for, but the most hit and miss sections were getting the pipe to roll straight, and getting the cassettes to knock the record off balance. I transferred the footage over to Final Cut to begin arranging them, and noticed a setback: One of the sections was missing where I forgot to press record. Next week I am on a work experience placement, and the week after is deadline week, so I hope to re-film that section then.