This is my first blog for the beggining of my AS Media Project. Our aim is to create the opening sequence to a fictional film, lasting for no more that Two minutes. Before we begin to film and get started with our project we have to complete an exercise which involves practicing our continuity editing.
Basically, a character walks into a room and exchanges two lines of dialogue with another character. We have done this and demonstrated continuity editing by using shot reverse shot technique and matching the action i.e. walks through door, on one side, comes out on the other.
This footage was shot two days ago now and we all had a taster of using the Dv camera and adjusting the tri- pods.
Today we are editing the product of what we made using Adobe Premier Pro. Overall I found this process enjoyable yet rather stressful as camera equipment if new to you can be quite bewildering until you get used to it, but after a while I became more comfotable with it which reflects at the end of our footage, the initial part of it however contains 'tromboning' and poor tracking of the character.
In the previous week we were just reseaching using the AS Media studies book and Various samples of A grade work from the exam board. This kind of lulled us in to a false sense of security as it made it sound/look easy and the sample work flowed, was smooth and all great to watch, now we understand the complexity of it after having a practical and realise the project will be harder than, we initally thought...
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