Video Editing 24/4

Friday April 24th:

This class was again allocated to working on our cuts of Admit One. We were expected to finish editing our final cuts of the film that day.

Having already finished the short film, it was a fairly uneventful class for me. What made it productive for me though, was that we began watching each other's final cuts and critiquing them. Some of them were cut down unbelievably short, some of them replaced the soundtrack songs for comical value etc etc. At the end of the class we were given some advice briefly on the presentations, which was nice, considering it was worth at least 20% of the paper.

Video-Editing 21/4

Tuesday April 21st:
The majority of this class was allocating to working on our Admit One cuts.

I had already finished my final cut of the short film at this point, so I spent most of the class (against the advice of Patrick) researching about my PowerPoint presentation topic and occasionally experimenting with the effects Premiere Pro.

Patrick also went around teaching people individually how to automate the audio levels in Premiere Pro. Having already automated, I just helped out people with it (Iris, Josh, Adam, Aaron) with it. My automation in Admit One adjusted the audio levels to have the soundtrack music get slightly louder when the couple were shown on-screen, and reducing the volume levels of the soundtrack when David put the Minties wrappers into his ears to block out the sound of the couple having sex.

Video Craft: Lighting Exercise

Yesterday we done an exercise in lighting, for more preparation

For differing types of lights, the size of the light is a major factor for the differences.

We were shown the types of lights available to us in the SIT equipment kits:

There were:

• Lamp

These lamps have light diffusers attached that could be used for providing directionality to the light) Runs on approximately 100 watts

• Red-heads:

Relatively small light. Runs on approximately 650 – 800 watts

Give off a considerable amount of heat

Therefore, you don't want them too close to the lighting

Or, you might use them on the environment rather than on the person themselves

• Blonde lights (Bigger than red-heads, presumably a 'medium' size)

Main types of light:

1. Key Light
2. Fill Light
3. Backlight

Reflectors can be used to provide backlight or fill light. We were shown effective ways to angle the reflectors off the key light to provide the fill light (as we were doing in the exercise), and after setting up lights at Upstage with gels to make the light softer and the shadows less intense.