In Class for the past two weeks we have been working on the one project. Moving from writing and filming in week 2 to post production in week 3. I really enjoy post production but the main problem that I had is shifting from Final Cut Pro, my weapon of choice, to Premiere. Just having to get used to the different keyboard shortcuts tripped me up a little and made it stressful trying to work on an unfamiliar platform.

Everything else in class was straight forward enough, I will mention how important it was that I was there for the shoot, that way I knew what we were trying to get so when it came to post production there was no messing around about what shot goes where. In week 2 we were told to mark up our scripts with the different shots which made post super easy and not having to guess. We did, however, end up shooting different shots on the shoot as well just because we thought it looked better or interesting and hadn’t thought of it previously. I think that this is an important thought when thinking about the difference between the writer and the director, neither one knows exactly what the others thinking and once you actually put it on location and add the actors to the scene you can never really know what is going to work better than others. The main lesson here is to learn to be flexible.

One thing that we didn’t do, which we should’ve, was mark down the footage that was usable on a list so that when we went into post production we could easily choose which clips were usable and which ones weren’t. It would’ve just made the process a lot smoother than having to go through all the clips one at a time, often revisiting some, to choose the best.