Colours? Corrected!

Last week we went through our film and colour corrected each of the clips. Some of them were a little bit tricky, but we got it all done and it looks better. Overall though, the more times I watch it, the less I like it. I just notice all the things I would've done differently, and it's starting to stand out to me more and more how amateur our shots look. Oh well, I guess I can't expect perfection from my first shot at film making.

On a different topic, we still seem to be short one member... Zehn. To be fair, his grandmother is sick and having surgery, but he was the weak link in the group way before this. I even gave him a warning, and he still didn't change his behaviour. I guess he figures that his other classes can take priority because this project has six other people to cover his ass. Frustrating.

Cutting like a Pro.

On the weekend, Julian, Mel, and I booked one of the computers in the Editing Suite and started editing our video together. We got all the shots for each scene put in order, and all the scenes from start to finish. It's rough so far, but at least now it looks like a movie. We even put in transitions between scenes to make it look smoother. There's still a long way to go, though. We have to figure out where to put the title, but we do have an idea for the credits. We've got blooper footage of each one of us, so we're going to use that to show each person along with their name and the roles they played in making the film.

For me, it's hard to loosen the reins of control, especially when there are group members who have yet to prove they can be trusted and relied upon, but I'm working on it. Julian was happy to let me do most of the editing because he already has experience with the program (plus I kept asking his opinions and he was very helpful in getting me comfortable with Final Cut Pro), and when Mel wanted to try her hand at editing, I let her have a go. She was a little rough with cutting the clips, but she won't get better if I don't let her practice, and I have to let other people have a chance to learn too.

Final Cut Pro

A little behind on my blogs, but here's what we did last week:

Since all of our filming is done, we had to get our files set up on Final Cut Pro. A group of us, including myself, Julian, Gemma, Bec, and Zehn, booked a computer in one of the editing suites. We went through our film clips and decided which ones we wanted to use, then transferred them into Final Cut Pro. We got a bit confused by the process because the only person who had used the program before had done it from tapes, not digitally. We got it figured out in the end though. Personally, I would've liked to have taken more time to go through the entire length of every each clip, but the rest of the group was set on just going through the last few takes of each scene because those were the best ones. I guess my way would've taken an unnecessary amount of time, but I'm a bit of a perfectionist and it bothers me that they were all willing to rush through it.