Monday 15th Interaction Project Editing

When we arrived today to find that all of the footage from the Junction had already been uploaded. This was very helpful as it allowed us to straight away look over it and decide what was useful. We put a tick next to all of the useful footage so it was easily identifiable. It is a very useful feature in Final Cut and also allows us to quickly and easily remove any unwanted footage. We already had basic pitch ideas which made the process of choosing the footage much easier.

James and I sat down and started to write up the layout of our video, he wrote up the sequence whilst I wrote out a narration and text script, all whilst Hayden was making an introduction.

We have started to edit the footage shot at the Junction. I have found that the footage shot by James and Sam to be the best and it is very useful. We marked all of the best footage and hid the rest so that we are only working with footage that looks good quality and professional. We decided to get rid of a section of the video. I had strong complaints about doing this as I thought simply revising it and improving it would have made it work brilliantly. The footage we removed was of a drummer, in soundcheck footage he hits the drum in rhythm, as this rhythm carries on we begin to cut the footage to the beat and it gave the video a very upbeat feel. The footage was removed due to it not adding much to the video but I was strongly opposed to this as I feel we could have made it work.

Editing other than this is going well. I am confident we will have a relatively good looking video before too long and the rough cut deadline will be met. Hayden has been adding some effects that the other two seem to think are effective. They are light effects but I think that they draw away from the footage. I am openly saying my concerns and they decided to dull them down due to my complaints. They look much better now.

We also filmed some footage to put in our video. I was the character in the video. The shots were planned by Hayden and I. My favourite shot was one thought up by Hayden where there is a shot of the computer screen in my eye. It's a very effective and professional looking camera shot.

By the end of the day we had a thirty second intro sequence and a full storyboard.