Evaluation

Overall i think that our video turned out well, i was impressed with the final piece. We tried to follow our initial ideas, but some parts couldnt really be filmed so we had to change them so that the video was appropriate to the task we were given. I think the only improvements that could be made was changing the location, so that the mise en scene matched the video however this didnt pose as much of a problem in the final outcome.

I think i`ve learnt alot about editing in this task, the use of trial and error and getting used to what you can do with editing has helped and been a very good learning process and i now feel that the next time i do a similar task i will be able to remember and continue to use the skills i`ve learnt this time. I`ve worked on checking the mise en scene of the shot before filming and checking for any unwanted sounds or objects that would be included in the shot.

Final editing of PSA

On Wednesdays lesson we finished the editing of our PSA, we added in the last parts of the film which included the statistics and facts about rape. After everything was finished we imported our video into idvd and chose our theme that we wanted at the start of the movie, all this gave our PSA a more professional look. We had a few problems with importing the movie as it wouldnt work but eventually it got sorted and we could burn our movie onto the disk.

We watched everyone elses films and each one was different and very good. And i learnt how editing has a huge effect on the outcome of a film, even the shots which carry one shot to the next can be edited to look included in the film. Also if during the filming there is something in the shot that isnt suppost to be there or something goes wrong it can usually be fixed with the use of editing.

Editing PSA

In todays lesson we were given the hour to edit our PSA`s which we filmed on mondays lesson. The editing gives us the chance to make all the shots run smoothly and gives the whole film a more profession look.
We were given a camera and a mac to do this. After we had imported our shots and had it loaded onto the mac we could start editing them in Imovie again. At first we found the editing a bit difficult because we had forgotten how, but after a few attempts and trial and error we picked it up again. We got most of the editing finished, all our shots done and at the right time length, cut out the bits we didnt want, and shortened a few of them, silenced one of the shots because of some background noise that we were unable to cut out due to it being in the middle of the shot, added in a fade in at the begining and the end and started the last shot which was the black screen with statistics on which we will need to finish on wednesdays lesson and possibly add in credits to the end of the PSA.

Rape Awareness

On Mondays lesson we started to film our Rape Awareness PSA in our groups. Our filming went well, we managed to get all of our shots done in the hour we were given. We had to check for any unwanted items or noises in our shots, this turned out well due to rewinding and playing the shots back to check if we needed to shoot them again, which in most cases we didn`t.
The ideas we had for our PSA were good and we all seemed to think of the same things in our group when we were creating our storyboard. When we were filming we used our storyboard as a guideline but realised some of the ideas we had wouldn`t have worked and it wouldn`t have looked right some of the shots had to be changed as we went along. This allows you to find out what works and what doesn`t and how sometimes yor intial plan doesn`t always work.