Today we finished the last part of our challenge shoot: editing and exporting. It wasn't anything fancy, we weren't able to do a lot of extra things to add "flair" to our film, but we edited our clips in a way that everything fit together quite nicely and we completed what we were supposed to. I had used Final Cut Pro last year so I knew sort of how to use the program, but I did learn something new today. I learned that we should always cut out the part we want from our footage to put into the timeline first, instead of putting the entire clip onto the timeline. That way it's much more organized and clean, and I realized it also saves a lot of time. It's easy to do this when you only have one clip, maybe it won't be as easy when you have several and you need to keep going through back and forth to get the little sections you want. We should also always remember to keep things in sequence whenever it's being put onto the timeline. It's always a great hassle to try and put things in order when you just dump everything onto the timeline. Now I know better! :)
I'm pretty proud of what we accomplished. There was one part in our film where we took the same shot from two different angles, of Bridgitte saying her line. We decided to cut both of those sections in half so that the first part of her saying her line was shot in an over the shoulder shot, her back facing the camera, and the next part cut straight into a medium close up of her finishing the line. We edited it so that those two parts flowed straight into each other very smoothly and that was really nice. The last thing we did was to put in the title. We wanted something creative, and Robert came up with this idea of "BAR Productions" because that was the combination of the first letters of each of our names. We got the idea to put that in from the movies where in the beginning they show the production company's name, "presents...". I thought that was a pretty interesting twist to our simple short film.
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