12.12

Last week we worked quickly and really started to try to get things going so we didn't have to do too much over the holiday. Today we moved forward from what we had finished last class. We downloaded the clips and started to organize them onto the timeline and we even started cutting and doing some fine editing in terms of the sequence and how they were going to play out in order. We didn't have much difficulty or trouble downloding the files becuse we all knew how to do that. We really didn't need everyone doing something because we didn't have lot of files to download and we only needed one computer to lay out and get all the clips down on the entire timeline. Once we downloaded all the clips I started to cut out the specific parts we needed from those clips and dragged them down into the timeline in the correct order. After that I went in for some fine editing and I started separating those clips and adding new parts in between the original clips because we were aiming for a mashup effect. I thought it worked pretty well because the clips we found flowed pretty well together: the clip with the pranks was set in a grassy background, and the main clip was lso set in a grassy background so that worked well when fitted together. So far the film doesn't seem to be jumping around randomly, which is my main concern when cutting two different clips and putting them together. We alwys referred back to the main clip and used that as our base, like the basic storyline and I think having that worked to our advantage in structuring the whole story.

There was one chllenge we faced, which was the quality of the different video clips. Since they were all different, when we imported those files into Final Cut Pro, the result was that some of the clips were very pixelated while others looked quite good. This caused the entire sequence to be very unbalanced and look a little strange when we were playing it through because you notice the differences in quality immediately. We asked for help, and we managed to find a solution to the problem. The solution was that after importing all the clips we needed into Final Cut Pro and dragging what we needed onto the timeline, we should export the film, then open a new project and import that exported file. We have yet to do that because we said we would do it once we had done a little more editing (we also need to see if we might have to add some more clips), but hopefully that will balance out the video qualities of all the clips and turn it into one complete film.

"Fasten your seatbelts. It's going to be a bumpy night." - All About Eve