Introduction

As I'm interested in animation, I'm planning to make an animated introduction for our media documentary. I've looked at various different types of animation and styles, and i've decided to make a short action sequence for our film. Reiss has made a logo for our documentary, which I'll incorporate into the animated sequence to polish off the ending. I'll be using Flash CS4 because I've seen several tutorials on it's use and I feel comfortable around  the programme. Unfortunately school only has CS3 which despite being quite a recent release is very different in programming to CS4 and I find it hard to navigate. Hopefully, allowing for time, I should have the animated sequence finished by next monday.

Shona ☺

Editing

In todays lesson, Shona and I made a lot of progress with the editing. We cut up some more subclips and put some more clips together on the timeline, everything on the timeline is now in chronological order. We currently have 2 minutes of fully edited footage on our timeline in the correct order. Reiss produced a logo which we will incorporate into the introduction of our film.
We still need to do some last minute filming, hopefully Luke will be able to get one more interview and we also need some additional cutaways for our introduction and ending.
We also need to produce voiceovers for some of the footage.
We need to work on our radio advertisement, as we haven't begun this yet.
Shona is also going to produce some animation which we will use as part of the introduction to our film.
Hopefully I will be able to get a camera later today so that I can work on another project, and if I do then I will also try to film some cutaways which we will be intended for use on our introduction.
On wednesday I plan to stay from 10:40 (as I finish at this time) onwards, until I have finished editing and complying together all of our obtained footage, aswell as capturing any additional footage that I may film tomorrow - This will hopefully mean that we have nearly finished the main portion of our film, and this will mean that we are free to work on:
Our Radio Advertisement
Any Music which we will use
Any Voice overs
Any video transitions such as dissolves, fades etc.

Podcast and recent decisions and progress.

In todays lesson, we experimented with using Garage Band, which is the program which we will be using to create a radio advertisement for our documentary. We also came to decisions based on our target audience about which radio station would broadcast our documentary and at what time of the day. We decided that it should be broadcast on XFM at 4:30 during the drive time radio slot, as this is the time of day when our target audience may be coming home from school in the car. XFM is a suitable radio channel as it caters for young music tastes, and their target audience is quite compatible to our own. XFM also has various podcasts for documentaries, making it one of the only radio channels which does this, and making it even more of an ideal channel on which to broadcast our advert. We also decided that we will use a voice over to place over the clip of James playing the XBOX skater game and disable the audio on this clip, we thought that this would be a very appropriate place to put the voice over as we will not loose out on any speech as their is none in this clip, and the audience will have something to watch while the voice over speaks. We have now cut all of our footage and are currently in the process of complying it all together.

Teacher Feedback: One more thing

Put your archive at the end or the side of your blog. It should not appear at the opening. The reader should see the recent entries first.

Teacher Feedback

Your blog reflects your progress. Well done. To improve, continue to look for opportunites to add photos/images.

Also, include more about decisions and revisions along the way.

18/11/2009

On the 16/11/2009, we resolved some problems which we had with final cut express through talking to Blossom, an expert in final cut. We also learnt how to encorporate some techniques which could improve our film, such as how to place two clips next to one another on screen.


This morning we captured all additional footage which Luke had filmed. This included interviews and various cutaways, however not all of this was useable; so we are in the process of cutting it. We are in the process of cutting our footage down to only the relevant material, however, due to technical difficulties, this is proving to be quite difficult.


We have lots of footage and have very nearly finished filming, however, we plan to film some more cutaway footage in order to further enhance our documentary.

Time Managment

Due to the unforseen problems we have encountered with the editing programme 'Final Express' we have been lost a lot of valuable time. In order to counter this our group has spit up in to pairs, that we can work on seperate tasks at the same time. The pairs vary from week to week and sometimes all four of us go our seperate ways in order to use our time in the most effective way possible. We make sure that at least two to three people are focussing on editing, and the others are working on side projects such as research, the blog, or finding appropriate copyright free music for our documentary.

On Thursday 12th of October, Sorcha was ill, so Me, Luke and Reiss worked alternatively on the editting, getting input from the other two, while they did the blog and made a section of music on 'Garage Band' for us to use in our documentary, because the music we found didn't suit our film.

Shona ☺