Missing poster sign

This is the poster we will be adding into our video very shortly, we need to do a couple of shots with it in and then we will be completely finished with the videoing.

Journal 17/1/12

In todays lesson we learnt how to use final cut properly. Jack gave us a tutorial and we got a chance to test out some of the final cut on videos and upload our own ones and started to convert them and get ready to edit, my group are now ready to begin editing, we just need one more shot of a missing girl poster to add in and we can work around that for now. We discussed animating it but realised it would have been too hard and could have ruined the realism of the rest of the piece.

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after our dilemma at the church we thought carefully about the forest and using the tripod to keep as much of the footage as steady as we could, though it was inevitable that some of the footage would come out shaky because it was a POV shot, we came up with a slightly different way of using our title sequence to make this all much less noticeable. We used Dawn of the Dead as our inspiration to use faster cuts between each shot and have the credits come up on a blank screen, we also are considering effects we could use to make the shakiness less visual to the naked eye.

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We got all of our shots done at the church which took roughly an hour. We checked the shots on the camera and they looked good enough quality to use but once we had got back to school and uploaded them to a big screen we realised it was too shaky. We had to return to the church and change some of our original shots to make the dolly possible to use on the uneven flooring. After using the tripod and dolly differently we came back with even better shots and our end video will have made a lot of progress thanks to this.

Storyboard

Journal 12/1/12

We used today's lesson to film shots 3,5,7,9,11 and 12 which we needed the church for. We were at the church for approximately one hour and used the dolly and tripod, though we realised it would be a challenge to use all of them because the floor had uneven stones on it. We watched the film back on the camera and were confident with what we had, however, when we came back to school and watched it on the big screen it was far too shaky and the quality of the video was overall not as good as it could have been and had previously looked. Mr Grimsley suggested different ways to move the dolly for a steadier shot and gave us advice on how to maybe change the shot completely to make it better. We took the advice and went straight back to the church, once we had re-shot and uploaded we were much happier with the outcome and felt we had really progressed in this lesson with camera work. We also re-shot some of the outside shots using the tripod to again make it steadier.

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we have now been given permission to use St Michaels Vicarage as our church to film in, we thought we would have a slight issue finding somewhere that would let us use its facilities to film but we luckily ha dno trouble and we will begin filming there first to make sure we have everything we need from them as not to disturb their church too much. We have also found some problems with our calendar so later today we will be having a group meeting to find a way to work around that and finalise our decision for filming.