We decided to record the audio for the video first, because we had the script ready for Amber to read - plus she had to leave in the second half of the lesson for photo journalism, so we wanted to get her part out of the way. On reflection, it probably would've been easier to record the audio last, because we had to make sure that we had a suitable clip for every line of audio, which was difficult. We didn't have a copy of the script on hand when we were filming, so it was hard to remember what we had to film, hence why Ellie, Kayleigh and Ryan went back out to film whilst I edited the footage we'd already shot.
Everyone stayed in roll -
Ellie the camerawoman, Kayleigh/ Ryan the actors, Amber the narrator
and I was the editor. Everyone pulled their weight.
Because of how we'd missed out certain shots, I had to leave spaces for the when I was editing. It wasn't too inconvenient at the time, but when it came back to adding them in I had to try and remember what went where. I also had to download several clips off of the internet, which meant that I had to wait quite a while so that I could insert them onto the timeline. It was also time consuming just to find appropriate clips and make sure that they were in a format that would be recognized by Final Cut. I originally converted the clips to .MOV but Final Cut couldn't recognize the file, so I had to settle with .MP4.
Next time we would want
to either carry a copy of the script or note down each shot that needs
to be filmed so that we don't have to go out multiple times. It would
also make the editing process far more fluid. It may also pay off to have someone else find and download the clips on a separate machine whilst someone else edits, so that they are ready to be inserted by the time they are needed.
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