Film Lesson 2

4th Febuary

Today, we edited our footage on the "Scavenger hunt" we did last lesson. Because of time constraint, our group divided into half, so Julien and Jeffrey are going to record the sound foley while Hannah and I start editing our footage.

First, we cut the bits of footage into sections and deleted the ones that we didn't need. Jeffrey and Julien came back from their reording (it took us a long time to get started because the final cut pro needed a bit of fixing from Mr. Chang and that took a while). Jeffrey has more experience in using Final Cut Pro, so he took over most of the editing and he taught us a few tricks that we can use on final cut pro.

In this lesson, I learnt how to add the subtitles without fiddling with all the buttons before I knew which one was which. From watching him editing, I also learnt some editing tips, like how to make a video very intense and hectic. The effect can be achieved by inserting some 1 or 2 econd footages and flashes of footage to make the audience feel the intended effect.

The editing of the other footage wasn't that special, because I learnt that last year already. At the end, we captured the sound foley as well and exported the entire video.