The assignment was to make three different clips consisting of three different shots each. Initially we wanted to do a scene with Gabby listening to music, but we didn’t have the correct shots. After that we went back to the drawing board and expanded on each of our ideas to make the shot longer. Originally we didn’t think each scene through but after this second brainstorming session we were ready to go. The biggest thing I have learned is get as much footage as possible and then figure out what to use.
Along the way, we encountered many difficulties. The first of which was our SD card knowledge, with neither of us having a lot of experience with the camera we put the footage on the wrong SD card. Originally, it wasn’t an issue until we realized that we didn’t know how to transfer the footage from the SD card to hard drive. We were able to remedy this pretty smoothly by renew the camera until class. This was where our second problem began. We didn’t have enough action in our different clips making it difficult to create a video from it. We went back out to reshoot on the next Friday but unfortunately it was raining. The next day we filmed our third scene that was supposed take place outside but unfortunately the sunlight made it difficult to film. This left us filming and editing on the next Monday and changing our third scene altogether.
What worked well was our group we had good communication and divided the work up evenly to allow each of us to gain camera experience as well as editing experience. Our only problem while editing was that some of our shots were dark so we had to figure out how we should use those clips. Our editing went well we used the razor tool to cut some of our clips in half and switch back and forth between shots.
Brendan Samson SPS 106 Blog 