The camera which I used to film my movie opening was a digital camera. Unfortunately, the camera which I had planned to use I couldn't as my parents took it with them on their holiday. Therfore, I had to make do with what I had. The camera itself was straightforward to use, however holding the camera steady so I could get sufficient footage proved difficult. In the very first clip, for example, took more time than expected to film as the panning was very difficult to perfect - infact in the end I still felt I could have filmed this piece of footage, along with others, better. While I was filming, it did not occur to me to use sound effects, and trying to include them while editing my film did not work. I am disappointed with this. If I had included sound effects, such as the knife penetrating Will and the blood dropping from the knife, I felt these sounds would add up to the overall effect - giving the audience a more ghastly feel. Dialogue was easy to film as I only had two lines of dialogue, and since I was close to the actors, the lines were easy to hear. Importing videos into the editing software (Adobe Premiere Pro CS5) was an easy process - although sometimes it had to be repeated, which was a right pain. For example, I would open the file which I saved my movie to, only to find that the footage had expired. So, not only did I need to re-import these videos, I also had to import them one by one - which was a tedious task. Finding music to suit my film was one of the biggest problems I had. I wanted a piece of music which was joyful and comforting - however having an element of surprise every now and then. I could not find music which suited my specific criteria, so I had to find music with an entirely different tone. In the end I chose the pieces: The Grand Duel (by Luis Bacalov) and Fortuna (by Carl Orff). One piece really suited the atmosphere, for example having a low whistle which suited the forest environment. The other had such a dramatic feel that I wanted to convey to the audience that this event was extremelt dramatic. The sound effects did not even work in this editing programme, so I had to go without. Using an infamiliar editing programme was really, really hard. I had to figure out how to make a clip show in slow motion, how to shorten it, how to add transitions, how to rotate the clips themselves, how to increase the qualty etc. etc. So trying to find out how to perform these tasks put me behind in the editing process. Trying to find out how to make a piece of music slowly fade out to silence was challenging and fustrating. I looked up instructions on the internet on how to do so, however the instructions were not detailed enough for me to follow. In the end, through trial and error, I found my way.
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