First Filming Task

Our first filming and editing experiment, testing our recently learnt knowledge of camera angles and movements and the impact they have on the story line and audience.

First basic edit of the film:

What is good about this is the way we used camera movements to establish the scene, setting and characters. It shows a variety of camera angles and movements, for example a long shot to present the initial scene, a POV shot to show the positions of different characters and also we used it in this film to show the wandering personality of the character and to show how the other two characters attention is on the person in the. We also used a pan shot as well as a zooming in shot. Both of these helped to capture the attention of the audience and helped enhance the emotion and intent behind the words being said by each character. Also when edited together i think the different shots transitioned and fitted together really well and made the story very understandable to the audience.

What i would've changed is tried to add a few more different transitions and not faded each clip together all the time, i think this because most reality TV shows, soap operas or TV dramas do not use special effects or fade their clips together all the time as it looks unprofessional and doesn't always make the finished product as smooth as you would like it. 

From this initial edit i learnt how to do the basic actions when editing a video, like how to join clips together in a set sequence and how to fade them in and out from each and other. I also learnt how to trim different clips to cut sections of them out or make them the length you desire. And through the actual filming of the scene i learnt how to position a camera when filming and realised how much you have to think about each shot and how it will be carried out during the action.

Second edit of the film in which we were testing serifX5, the editing software

What is good about it is that it shows a lot of creative ideas in one short film and follows a particular internet trend that i wanted to try out myself as part of a idea explosion. But even though it follows a trend i also added some individuality into the video. As well as this it shows how much i really experimented with the software and as a first go using the editing software i think the second edit of the film really shows a burst of initial creative ideas. I think it shows a wide range of initial skills that i learnt as well, for example; I learnt how to add audio on top of clips in a film and how to change the length and volume of that audio, however i haven't quite learnt how to completely cut out previous audio and replace it which is something i would like to learn, and will very soon. I also learnt how to overlap different images or visual clips on top of the already existing clips and how to move the image around on the screen into the area that i wanted and how to re-size and change the angle of that image. I also learnt how to add a zoom effect after filming as well as different color schemes for an image; for example adding a black and white effect. This will be really useful if i ever need to create a different feel for a film, for example a darker visual effect will be really useful in horror films and a black and white effect will come in handy if i ever do a film in a traditional 'old timey' film. I would like to learn how to slow mo or speed up a clip as i did not learn how to carry that out in this editing experiment but would really like to know how to. 
At the end of this i really would've liked to try and focus on making smoother and more relevant transitions and figuring out how to use different transitions to each clip for various reasons and intentions, however as this was just an initial experiment and a practical idea brainstorm it would make more sense to practice this another time. I would also try adding different types of long audio tracks and music instead of short clips of audio, for example longer songs playing quietly in the background of the visual track.