Today's class was quite a wake up call as soon as we found out that tomorrow would be our last opportunity to work on the film in class. We all decided that it was time to step up and try even harder to understand how to use Final Cut Pro. Unfortunately, we had not gotten organized in the previous week to come in and capture the rest of our footage and so we had to spend the first 20 minutes of the lesson capturing that.
We wanted to take advantage of this time though, so despite the lack of volume, we took notes on which visual should go with which interview. We also went through our brainstormed visuals and crossed off any unnecessary ones.
As a group, we sometimes found it difficult to decide what to eliminate and what not to so we had to come up with a system where when there was a conflict, we would listen to the content of the visual and see it it's necessary or not.
Today there was a big jump in our editing stage. We managed to to cut out any mistakes and extra takes and started to rearrange the order of the takes to make it as logical as possible for viewers to get a nice flow. While doing this, we all found it a bit of a struggle to learn how to use the different tools and transitions. In the next lesson or in lunch breaks, we are all keen to learn how to insert captions into film to enhance it and make it more comprehendible to viewers, but we hear this is quite difficult and slightly above our skill level, so this is something we will do only if we have time.
Today, I particularly enjoyed the feeling that we were finally getting somewhere in terms of editing and are nearly done, even if it was challenging I definitely feel that I'm improved massively today.
I feel that today I was particularly a thinker, as I was analyzing all of the films and really thinking about what will work and won't work in an efficient manner to finish the project on time.
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