FINISHED!

So we planned out filming as i mentioned before. Mahida and i filmed myself and 2 other girls. One of the girls was a bit too shy and it wasn't successful. Zaq and Joe filmed another girl. However, i chose to use a setting in front of a bricked wall which i think represents entrapment ot feeling sad and suppressed. I did mention this to the boys for where they were meant to film but they didn't follow the right instructions and filmed in a different location which changed what we were trying to portray. When it came to the last bit of editing, the boys uploaded the footage, so i came to edit today and couldn't find the footage. After searching the mac i somehow found it, but they had only uploaded myself, the footage they shot, and the girl who was too shy, the other girls footage was missing. So we just left it and edited with what we had. In the end it worked but we had a lot of difficulties and problems. But it is all done now.

Photos of Filming, Planning and Editing

Editing

Me and Mahida have been editing our footage for the past 2 weeks. It started off okay but we did come across some difficulties. The first was that we both only had experience with iMovie and this was a huge jump to go straight into Final Cut. I think I have finally got the hang of it now but it did take a while as it is much more complex. There is a lot more to do on Final Cut and i think its much better in term of its ability but it is not as simple to use as iMovie. The second problem is that our actor (Fraser) had practiced the song but he didn't seem to know it well enough. He knew the beginning of the song and we got a lot of shots of that but he was rusty on the middle bit. Therefore he sort of mimed what he thought the words were wherever he got stuck and this meant that for some parts of the song there is no footage we can use that is in lip sync with the song. The third problem was that we did not film enough footage. This we know was bound to happen because the two actors were never free at the right times as us.

We have been working really hard by editing and filming at the same time and are working our way through it. We have editing just over two minutes which means we are exactly half way through and aim to finish it next week. Zaq and Joe are meant to be filming this weekend so we have some more footage and Mahida and I have done some shots during this week which we can also use.