Working towards the end of year screening we are tasked with making a 22.5 second video showcasing our research question and then showing some of the things we filmed during the year that showcase that research question. We are then to make a full length video of what we were filming over the year.

As i said earlier when filming my assessment piece, i was using a Red Scarlet, the camera didn’t have any build in microphones to capture scratch audio, it didn’t matter on the day because we were recording sound separately, but after bringing all the footage into post it took alot longer to match up the audio with video because i had to match the slate clapping with the sound. Even if i thought that it matched with the slate board fine what i did find out is that even if it is out by 1 frame over the course of a 1 minute clip it could be out 2 seconds. So just having to tediously watch through all the clips with audio took a long time.

Also i decided to film in 4k resolution as i had never done it before and wanted to see what it was all about. The file sizes as you would of guessed it were large and i had to make some more space on my hardrive just to fit the footage on over the 2 days i recorded about 250 giga bites worth of footage which is crazy. I had read about when you want to view the footage you have recorded on your computer you needed to download a software media player off the Red website. I downloaded the software but was having trouble playing the footage (Wouldn’t load due to my computer being slow) So what i tried to do was bring the footage into Premiere Pro and try to play it there and to my amazement it played straight away without any hitch.

I had filmed the scenes in a way that i didn’t have endless footage to look through and only a few different variations on shots so in the end it was easy to assemble.The image quality and flexibility with colour grading has been amazing, and as i am still working on it now i have put together 2 scenes and working on my last scene now. I still need to finish off colour grading as well but at the moment i am really happy with what i have done. i better get back to it, so until next time this is Lance signing off.