Evaluation.

Evaluation.
My research has helped me to produce a very creative piece of moving image as I have been looking at contemporary, mainstream artists such as Danny Boyle, Mark Simon Hewis and Dan MacGee, who, in their films deal with surrealist themes and styles of editing that help to create fantasy effects such as flash editing, layers and juxtaposing scenes.
In this module, I have learnt extensively all the filters and editing techniques used within “Final Cut Pro” – for example, colour balance settings, filters and layers, as well as sound editing on which I have come to rely very heavily to create various moods. This is avery painstaking and time-consuming part of the making of a video. This was my first time on “Final Cut Pro”. Previously, I was using “I Movie” which was quite limiting and not as advanced. Also, we have used most types of equipment not available at college such as the synthesizer that helped to produce the unusual sounds and the projector for the lighting effects. Within the team, this was one of our key points to get everyone to rally round and organize times, equipment and props. I felt that our team worked very efficiently and swiftly. Also, with the planned out jobs that were allocated, we swapped around so that each one of us learnt all the new techniques. I found that this module was very useful as I have learnt why video-making is so time-consuming and now understand why brainstorming is so vital and also video planning so as to build a truly conceptual and flowing video. The equipment we could get from college was quite extensive. What would have been better would have been if we had known exactly how much equipment was available to us – for example, the HD cameras, dollies and tracks etc. I felt we could have done more if we had been provided with a full list of all the equipment available to us at the college.
We were able to spend more time on video editing and this is the most important part of video production. The editing room closes at 4pm but B89 is open until college closing time so we made full use of this facility. The main problems that we faced during the production of the video were the time element and the obtaining of permission to record in certain locations. Where permission was refused, we had to revise our plans and some of our scenes had to be changed. A whole new style was created in order to detract from the time of day that some of the scenes had to be shot. Scenes were actually shot in a different chronological order than originally planned. Another problem was that maybe our video ran for too long – but I felt that its length was crucial to give the audience sufficient narrative to understand its content. Another problem occurred in the middle of our video, as, due to the time limits, we did not get permission to film in the location required for a particular scene. Therefore, I felt that this scene fell down in comparison with all the other scenes in the video. Also, the time allocated for editing was quickly used up, before we had chance to run through the whole video to check it for any glitches or problems that might have occurred.

bibliography
"28 Days Later" Daniel Boyle
Blueprints Big Push by Daniel MacGee
"Trainspotting" (1996) Daniel Boyle
http://www.channel4.com/fourdocs/film/film-detail.jsp?id=45385
http://www.hewis.co.uk/LSZpresstimeout.html