Blog 2

Today, we made a remix style arrangement of our footage from last week. It was great because you can do a lot more than on windows movie maker and it's really fun speeding up and slowing down our voices. We added some funky music in the background so that without repeated voices it sounded a bit like a funny rap. Even though it was 15 seconds long, I was pleased with it because it was funny and my friends liked it. We achieved adding music, cropping it, adding words and speeding some parts up. We also edited some footage we didn't shoot, about a boy apologising to a girl about getting her in trouble. It was fairly good but I think the one we did together at the start was the best way of arranging it. And we couldn't completely copy what the demonstating was like. If I were to edit this footage again I would change it so it does go from a longshot to her hands straight away because I think it looked weird and confused the viewer. Instead I would put it so it changed from a long shot to a medium shot. I learnt how to edit footage in the best way. For example it is good to change the camera angle on a movement. I personally contributed to both of these in terms of what clips to use and what music.

After lunch we took some pictures with the cameras. I found this quite hard because, unlike on a digital camera you can't see the picture straight after you take it. You also can't delete them and you only have twenty four shots. Because of this you can't take lots of shots to make sure one is right. I'm not entirely confident they will all come out because it was hard to tell if it was in focus. Another thing I found frustrating was you can get the amount of time the shutter opens for right, but then if you put the camera very low to the ground and facing up it may have changed and you can't see it. This happened when I got down very low and tried to take a shot looking up the trunk of the tree. But all  of that said it was fun experimenting with the tips we learnt before. E.g the rule of thirds, leading lines and viewpoint.


P.S on Sunday when me and my family went to Southwold we happened to see a film crew filming a new ITV drama called Injustice. It was their first day of filming and we saw lots of vans with equipment in parking and we then saw them filming a shot where a man and his dog were walking along the beach. The writer of the drama who was there as well told us the actor in the scene was looking gloomy because in the drama the man  had just killed someone. It was interesting seeing how big a film crew they needed. Here are some pictures.