Ident

This is my Ident. i manage to get the lense to move from the right side of the screen to inside the 'P' and then i got the 'media' to come out of nowhere and to move around a little bit before finishing.

New York Final Cut editing Training

This is My new york video. First video i have ever made with Final Cut Express. I learned to combine short videos together with a song that i created on garage band. The after that when i had everything done i put the ''in'' and ''out'' mark on the video to know when to get the video to start ad to finish so you can then go to ''File'' - ''Export'' - ''Quick time Movie''
And then you have your video done.
You have to measure the amount of time that you want your short videos to be playing. You dont really want them to be too long otherwise it gets boring, and you also have to make sure that when you change the image it has to go well with the music, so it 'flows'
I used the 'rubber bands' at the beginning of the video but because i was running out of time (i took too long to make the song) i completely forgot to keep doing so it just looks like a lot of short videos put together with music so it doesn't flow as much as i would have liked it to. So next time i will remember to keep using the rubber bands when its needed.

Final Video

This is my final video i added the sequences in the master tab. I got all the sequences together and i added my ident at the beginning along with my tittle and my theme song. Which is the song where the agent is running towards his destination.

The Meeting.

These shots took us longer than it thought it would. Tom (character 1) ; the one with the hood, was doing a weird voice for his character and it was really hard not to laugh. so we had to do most of the shots more than once. Louis (character 2) couldn't stop laughing either so it was quite hard to film it if he was laughing.
In this sequence we forgot to do a close-up shot of each of them without talking and because we were rushing at the end because we thought we weren't going to get it done. So i had to re frame two of the shots to do the close up of each character.

The Phone Call.

The Phone call was about character 1 wanting to meet character 2 so character 1 is telling character 2 to meet him in G19.
This shots didn't take us that long. We went to find places around College for character 1 and character 2. We got character 1 looking at one direction and character 2 looking to the opposite direction to make it fit, as if they were actually talking to each other face to face.
We went to the forest for character 1 and it was quite noisy because there were people walking by and the trains were going passed constantly and also planes and birds. But we made sure that it was silence when we were filming and that the audience could hear our characters talk loud and clear.

Bomb sequence 2

I got the whole action scene finished with the sound clip added when the agent is running to his destination. And i also recorded a punch and i added it to the scene when theyre fighting so it sounds like they're are actually punching each other. You could also hear the bin when character 2 smashes his head against it.

Long Road Bomb Sequence

This is my song for the action sequence when the agent is running to his destination and finds the bomb. I mixed two songs together and i added drum's and tambourine. This is an image of some of the clips i used to make it.

Action Sequence

This was the third sequence that we did. It was the conversation between the operator (me) and the agent. The conversation was about where the bomb was and what wire to cut. We did quite a few shots and we had more than one shot for a scene because we all had different ideas, so each of us could decide what scene they liked more so all of the sequences are not going to be the same for everyone in our group. We had some difficulties because we filmed this scene in 3 different days so we were all wearing different clothes. And also while we were filming the tracking shot where the agent is running into the forest, the grass was wet so the 'wheelchair' that we used got really wet, specially the wheels so it was hard to move it around when we were filming because it kept getting stuck on the ground.
And in the conversation between the operator and the agent there was another problem. When the operator talks you can hear the outside door closing on the background, we were going to film it again but we thought it would be confusing if one of the characters randomly changed its clothes. Next time we're going to check the videos before we move on because we were so focused on what we were doing that we didn't even hear the door.
I also used the Linked selection and snaping tool in Final Cut Express to make the videos linked together easily and make sure i don't leave any gaps between each clip.
Also there were quite a few people coming in and out of the main building because we decided to film it there.

My story board

This is our story board about The phone call, we planned it on here before we went out to the forest to act and film the shots. We wrote down the type of shots such as : over the should, close up etc...
I forgot to do the end of credits and the beginning.
So next time i will make sure im not missing anything, maybe make a check list or simply remember it.
We did it as a group and one person did the writing and the drawings in pencil and the other person went over it with pen because it could easily rub out.
We all shared ideas to this story board and we all did exactly what we planned on the story board because we were all happy to do them shots  and in the same order.

Meeting

I had a few problems in these shots. For example, the bomb was on one side and on the other shot it was on a different side. Also we had to change rooms through the middle of the conversation because that room was going to be used for a lesson, and we didnt have enough time to use the room for the whole conversation. So the atmosphere wasn't the same, and the light of the room was different, even though we did try to get the same atmosphere by moving the chairs and tables around and also the lights, to get the same amount of light as the other room. Also we completely missed on the story board where it said  'close up' of character 1 and 2. (shots 10 and 11) so i had to find a shot of Tom on the shots 4,6,8 (the conversation) without him talking and then find a shot of Louis on shots 5,7(the conversation) without talking and i had to re-frame it. And put them before shot 12 (the last one) where they belong. It wasnt easy to find the shots without them talking, because its a conversation so theyre both talking. Also when i re-framed it the  quality wasn't as good.

Phone Call

We chose 3 places. one for character 1 , the other one for character 2 and then character one walking to G19. We did all our shots from 1-8 in the same place. We chose that place because it was calm and away from everyone and it was a nice background. Then shots 9-16 with character 2 in the same place, sitting on the stairs waiting for that phone call. And finally 17 and 18 was character 2 walking to the room and opening the door, and we were focusing on the character but also we gave the audience a view of the background, and we made sure that the audience could understand what was going on clearly but without them getting bored. So i also made sure that the clips weren't too long. For example when character 1 was waiting on the second/third shot, it was quite long but i didn't use the whole clip because the audience get the idea that he's waiting for someone to answer. Or for example when character 1 is dialing a number, he pressed quite a lot of number but i only used a few seconds of his pressing 3-4 numbers. The audience gets the idea that the character is calling someone.
We got all our videos into our laptops and then I put the shots directly in the right order.
1,2,3,9,4,10,5,11,12,6,13,7,14,8,15,16,17,18.
Which connects the shots together and it makes sense.
I got rid of me saying 'shot 1' at the beginning and i got rid of a few seconds at the end because there was some wasted time at the end which i didn't need.

Horror Stills Task

We got told to do a Horror Still Task in groups. We had to do 10 different types of shots.
1.Establishing shot.
2.Close up
3.Extreme close up.
4.Mid shot
5.Long shot
6.Canted shot
7.Point of view
8.Over the shoulder
9.High angle
10.Low angle

We went to the forest and we thought of a story that we wrote down on our story board, and we took pictures of the action using those 10 types of shots for each image.
We took the pictures and then we came up into the classroom and uploaded our pictures into our laptops. (File - Log and transfer) and we used final cut express to use our images. Our teacher gave us the music and the special effects to add to the pictures and to create a dramatic scene.
So we all chose 1 different track for our video and used the pictures in different order.
Then we added special effects to make it more interesting and to make the audience to feel more involved in the scene and to make then know what is happening.
Also i wanted to try something different so i used photoshop to edit most of the images, i nearly ran out of time but they looked better than the original ones.
I think that project went quite well, and there was a dramatic end. But next time the character shouldn't be looking at the camera and get clear shots of what's going on in the story, because to be honest it wasn't really clear, we knew what was going on but the audience was a bit confused, so next time show the audience a clear story.