Film Reflection - Monday 12 April, 2010

Before today’s lesson, my group and I had been coming in after school as much as we could to work on the film and had managed to complete a rough draft of all of the editing. We ran into many problems such as their being audio delay or some of our film being ‘unconnected’ and many more. However through all of these problems, most of the group, including me, are all feeling very competent in Final Cut Pro and are very familiar with a lot of its simple functions. We now had inserted captions to all of the questions, included relevant visual aid in media ranging from photos to film footage to youtube clips, cut out all irrelevant information and created a nice beginning to the film introducing what would be discussed. 
We were told at the beginning of the lesson, that due to a number of films not being entirely finished that we would be given this double period to finish everything up and be exporting by the end of the lesson. We took this opportunity to try and watch through the whole film to fix any small things up and also to add in the credits at the end. We focused particularly on the last interview because that was the longest and also the one we had spent the least amount of time on. It was very challenging to get through everything today because we were really tight on time, a lot of the time we had to skip through long periods of footage that we felt were okay. After spending the first period or so doing this, we then shifted our focus to adding in the credits. 
When doing the credits, we had fortunately already made a list of all the URLs from the pictures we used off the internet. Then we decided to use the scrolling text type of text to present that section of the credits. But before that we wanted to credit all of the interviewees and who did what in the different interviews i.e. cameraman, interviewer, audio manager etc. This took us a while because we wanted to use three different text boxes that we could position to create a nice set up. As the time ran out towards the end of the lesson, we were still trying to create the credits which was surprisingly time consuming. It was so time consuming because with final cut pro, if you don’t use ‘enters’ the text is one big long line rather than wrapping itself to fit the frame. Since there were so many URLs, this took us a really long time and therefore had to go slightly into lunch to just finish it off. 
Today we worked very efficiently and although we faced many challenges, we got through so much managing to complete our project and export it by the deadline. I feel that today I was most like the IB Learner Profile “thinker” because we had a lot of things to do in an hour and a half, and we had to do it in the most efficient way possible and at the best quality we could possibly do it at.