MORE THAN FABRICS (W11 MEDIA 3)
Week 11 (Thursday the 18th of May)
Editing in the studios is quite tedious, not the editing itself that’s really easy- but the long hours in an environment that doesn’t allow you to eat, plus sitting down consistently. Honestly I wish I was editing from home and hopefully our group can make a compromise so that we may be able to do this. Booking the studios is another reason why I want to work from home- it’s hard to book them in for long periods of time, especially near the end of term. I don’t want our film to be below standard just because we didn’t have enough time in the editing suites.
I have my own monitor and a second laptop at home, I’m a fast editor with quick turn-arounds and I really enjoy editing late at night, I see it as sort of a hobby even- to wind myself down and relax. I’ve edited a lot at university before, I daily produced a show for RMITV called Offbeat in 2016 which involved a lot of editing and exporting then handing in the content to Channel 31, so I have edited at RMIT and I know the computer systems quite well.
Despite this I still think editing from my own home environment on an external hard-drive makes more sense, as our group can just pass the hard-drive around and everyone can edit at their own pace. This is one of the hardest things about editing in a group; it’s that you all really need to be available at similar times so that you can go over how you’re going to edit the piece. I find this to be a little frustrating.
I know green screening and keying the film so that it looks elegant will take time and I have to say i’m not that excited for it as I’ve been quite unwell and hope I don’t have to spend long hours at university.
Pray that I can edit from home as I’ll be doing the majority of that edit. #pray4tash
Until next time.
MORE THAN FABRICS (W10 MEDIA 3)
Week 10 (Thursday the 11th of May)
Emily and I worked upon the weekly video during the week, it wasn’t hard and was a fun task to do but it did take up a little time in a busy week which is always a slight challenge. Never I had fun messing around with different effects and adding them onto the video to create a fun preview of our week.
All our footage has been filmed and we spent week 10’s editing lesson reviewing what kind of footage we had to work with. I practiced playing around with the green screen and our group came to an agreement that a black backdrop with the green screen looked the most professional. I also looked into how our rough cut would be sequenced as well as color grading shots that were shot in the studio that ended up with too much filler light from the harsh redheads that we were provided. I’ll be coming into the studio early next week in order to start editing the rough cut and making some technical changes as I go. Until then.