So having finished my project brief 3 after what felt like the longest time sitting down over several days, going through videos and sounds, I have learned a few valuable things for later down the line.
For one, as I use Premiere more and more I feel more confident in using it. I feel I can edit at ease, and I only have to ‘search’ for things rather than learn how to use them. Another thing is that ploughing through all the footage I had gives me an insight to what it is like long term in terms of editing a film, documentary or anything along those lines. The grind to go through each shot, was one very long and drawn out process however it wasn’t at all boring by any means, it in a way excited me as I would be doing this a lot more further down the line.
One thing I did learn to use was the use of ‘morph cut’ which morphs two shots, being similar is a requirement, and transitions them by morphing them. Rather than just a straight switch between the two, it morphs the end and start points to make it look like it flows on from the previous shot. Something I learned while watching the Lynda.com tutorial and I thought it would be a good idea to use it in this. With this however I ran into a few difficulties with my video. A few parts of the video would have frame drops and I had no idea why it would be happening, but it had to do with my ‘morph cut’ effect and I had to keep rendering the entire video and sections of the video so it would run smoothly which it did in the end.
I had to do a second shoot as with my first shoot I got most of the interview shot, however I did not have a lot of ‘slice of life’ shots which I wanted after I did my initial edit. I feel like this is common practice for a second shoot to happen, because people tend to not get everything in the first shot.
Also in terms of ‘found footage’ is used, it took me quite a long time to decide what to use. I had a few things that were abstract to the topic of the video but it was difficult to find footage for something like that. So I decided to go with the slice of life idea, which during my editing I decided to go with it and found the right soundtrack to go with this slice of life idea and overall I am happy with the product. It was also great receiving positive feedback from my peers and my interviewee upon showing them the video before officially submitting it.
