Shooting and editing

On Monday all three of us shot the video again this time using a digital camera. We asked four students to act for us and we shot the footage from different shots and angles including Reverse shot, long shot etc and we also used different positions to experiment with the light and angles. The video was shot outdoors and in the accounts office at our school. All the team members this time  worked together in setting up and shooting. in today's class session we looked at all the shots and selected the ones we are going to edit. However the videos were in AVI compressed form and would not open on Premier 6 as i had the oldest version of software at home. I looked up and read somewhere that we need to have Motion JPEG codec. So either that or we will edit on a newer version CS4/CS5

First Practice

The script was rewritten and this time it is between a principal and two students. All the members oft the group us wrote the script together adding a touch of comedy. The videos shot earlier weren't good enough as there was too much space and noise in the background. So the new treatment is complete and I have also seen couple of samples of storyboards online. Hopefully I will work on the rough sketch tomorrow and practice some shots. I also a few watched OCR media studies videos online for a quick recap and skimmed through the tutorial of Adobe Premier CS4.

shooting

For our preliminary and final video we will work as a group pf three. (Me, Sama and Fatmah)


So we got on with our preliminary practice. We had a script there was just two of us (me and Sama) as the other member Fatmah was busy in a conference. Sama and I asked two boys from our school to act for us. The rough script which I wrote last night for the preliminary practice was about a principal and an over-efficient secretary who wouldn't let his boss complete a sentence. The shooting took approximately an hour with a couple of retakes. An acknowledgement to them for tolerating us as they were very patient and acted very well. we have the videos and tomorrow we will do the first cut and start editing. The video was shot from a camera cell phone as we did not have any tapes for the handy cams. Today was a good experience of shooting.  We got to experiment  with different shots and angles.

camera

In our today's class session We were shown the school's handy cam and were briefed on its functions and how it works. We are required to practice shooting with it so that we learn to take good shots. We also looked at Premier Pro editing software used for editing videos.