Throughout the process of the project through editing and creating I have gained some new skills which I have been taught through my peers, group members, teachers and youtube video tutorials. At the start of the project I didn't know how to use the cameras, premiere or after effects now I am capable with all of these (some better than others). Within the first couple of shootings I found myself as the one who would organise what would happen within the scene and direct our actors on how to react to certain things as well as contributing into the group on which shots would be suitable for each part of the narrative. As well as this I have improved on how to film as I have been out on my own and tried to shoot Daniel from a low angle, POV shot and other parts. At the start of this project I was so unaware of how to do film without making the camera shake when zooming or pressing the start button without shaking the tripod but now I feel I have improved in this area. As well as this on the 'media @ ccc' website there is lots of tutorials which teach you how to use premiere which I have watched and have taught me all the basics which will also be useful for next year and when we do our later editing. I have edited a scene in our piece just using the basic skills throughout for example I used fades and cuts however it was very basic in comparison to the editing that Prentice can do. Finally for our piece I spent a very long time trying to work out how to use After Effects as this is a very complex programme. I had to have help from my teacher in order to get started and think of ideas but when I got started I found the templates that are in the programme before and incorporated my own found font from dafont.com to make it into our own, I had to watch youtube videos to show me what levels I need to add and how to actually do what I wanted to with it- but now I know the basics of the program and would have knowledge is someone asked me.
Our opening as a group is coming along slowly but surely. We are doing our opening piece by piece which is slightly irritating but it hard to find a time when we can get a big chunk of it done as we are all available at different times. As well as this I feel that although we are making good progress if we had got done and really pushed to have got it done then we would have had more time to perfect our piece. Our deadline is so soon and we still have a few finishing touches to do. My group have all been very patient with one another and we have all incorporated our skills to make our opening the best it can be. For example Prentice as a lot of experience in premiere and editing therefore he is very good at the editing part of the project but I still give it a go too. The filming has been done evenly through me and prentice as he has done the filming when we have been in a group but I have done the filming when it has been the outside walking along part, Dan preparing the room and the part with Daisy getting ready. Joe has stepped up to the plate with the acting when the majority of our project was done but our actor broke his leg so we had to work around this by putting in a text message to rearrange what the narrative actually was.
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