Week 9 - Workshop 1

Hi,

In week 9 we didn't film anything (much to my chagrin), but we did have a three hour workshop where Josh outlined how to organise our post-production.

He talked about four main points, and broke them down:
1. Technical considerations (like file management, ingesting etc.)
2. Workflow (like naming conventions, music formats to use etc.)
3. Organisation (which is largely group orientated, but also incorporates the workflow)
4. Finalcut Pro (which we are using to edit our films)

I don't have a Mac computer at home, so this workshop was really helpful for me. I remember trying to use Finalcut Pro (or something like that) in highschool....our film somehow ended up with no sound, and even our teacher couldn't teach us how to use it. It was good learning different techniques to use even though at least half of my group have Macs. I don't think we're using any still images in our film, but I wish we were! I love playing around on Photoshop.

When we were filming, we shot a couple scenes with really long takes, from multiple angles, which we plan to cut up later. I think this is going to be a massive challenge, but hopefully it works out for us. On the filming day I thought it would be fine but the more I learnt about Finalcut Pro the more I realise this could be a challenge for us. Hopefully it will work out well for us because I think we have a really different story, I just hope our film making skills can exhibit it!

The end.