Final Cut Pro Sea World Video

I have now finished editing my video on sea world. I have applied different filters, such as colour correction, and have added and changed the audio levels as well as trimming the video clips. As the video is intended to be a positive promo video for the park, I added positive and uplifting music. For some of the clips I slowed them down to make it more emotional and to make the park seem more like a heavenly place. I added text at the start and also end so that viewers know where to visit and what the video is representing.

Exporting the video:

1. Click on the timeline to select it
2. Click on file > export > Using QuickTime Conversion
3. Go to data drive and select your folder. Give the project a title.
4. Click on options.
5. Click on settings under video and choose H.264 (compressed). Click ok.
6. Click on settings under sound. Select the format as AAC. Click ok.
7. Click on save. The file will then export.

What video editing skills I have learnt:

• Importing clips and folders
• Inserting/overwriting clips into the viewer and inserting them into the timeline to watch in the canvas 
• Applying filters to sound and video clips and slowing down video clips
• Trimming clips and inserting markers ('i' and 'o'
• Zooming in and out, using the pen tool, going forward and backwards clips using the tools from the toolbar
• Editing the audio levels so that they don't go below -12
• Inserting text and using motion control onto the text
• Muting or locking one audio channel
• Playing the clips, in normal speed and fast/slow motion
• Exporting clips, using the right settings (see above)

Brainstorming - Task 3

The 3 songs that I have chosen are Icona Pop 'I Love It', Katy Perry 'Roar' and Michael Buble 'All I Want for Christmas is You'. The lyrics for the songs can be found at:

• http://www.lyricsmode.com/lyrics/i/icona_pop/i_love_it.html
• http://www.lyricsmode.com/lyrics/k/katy_perry/roar.html
• http://www.lyricsmode.com/lyrics/m/michael_buble/all_i_want_for_christmas_is_you.html

The words that I come up with for each song were:

• Wild
• Explore
• Seperation

I would say that my first choice would be Icona Pop, I Love It as this will be easy to shoot. Michael Buble's song will be second as it will be hard to film it and get fake snow and Katy Petty, Roar would be last, as a bigger budget would be required.

Film Icons

D.W. Griffiths

David Lleyelyn Griffiths was an American film director born in 1985. He was born methodist in Kentucky and directed over 450 short films, recited for 534. He worked for American Mutoscope and Biogrph Co. and is known for creating flashbacks, iris shots and and also crosscutting. His most successful film was 'The Birth Of a Nation', 1915, however he received a lot of criticism due to strong racism in the film. White actors were covered in black makeup to pose as violent African Americans. He was described as the 'Father of film technique' and produced and directed the first ever Hollywood film. He was voted to be the 15th greatest director. In 1909, he was producing 2 or 3 films a week and retired in 1931. He died in 1948.

George Melies

George Melies was a professional magician born in 1891 in France. He accidentally discovered that he could use stop-motion photography as a special effect. He was the first to use fading in and out and also the dissolve effect and split screen to create the first real narrative films. This was advanced technolgoy for the day. He has made over 500 films with his most famous being 'A Trip to the Moon'.

Sergei Eisenstein

Sergei was born in Russia in 1898 as a son to an architect. After joining the army in 1917, a few years later he joined up with Moscow Proletkult Theatre as a set designer, going on to being a director. The director for the theatre was a big infulence for Sergei and he likes the idea of the sequence of events and how they affect people's emotions. Although making only 7 films, his work was quite abstract and different to 'common' films.
 

The Lumière Brothers

The Lumière Brothers were sons of a well known painter. They were both very smart, particularly in science and were sent to a technical school. Their father abandoned art and began a new business manufacturing photographic equipment. Whilst experimenting he discovered a new 'dry plate'. It became known as the 'Etiquette Bleue' process and gave his father’s business a welcome boost, and a factory was built soon after to manufacture the plates. By 1894 the Lumières were producing around 15,000,000 plates a year.

Final Cut Pro Lesson 1 Review

1.    Name 3 ways to open final cut pro

-       Click on Final Cut Pro (dock)

-       Open an existing file

-       Go to Mac Studio on the desktop

2.    What are the 4 modifier keys?

-       Command

-       Shift

-       Option (alt)

-       Control

3. How do you get to the shortcut menu?

- Control and click (right click)

4.    In what main menu can you find the import command?

- File

5.    Identify 3 ways to open a clip in the viewer.

-       Double click the clip

-       Drag the Clip

-       Right clip then open in viewer

6.    Beside clicking on the play button, how can you play the sequence?

- Space bar

7.    Which keys on the keyboard move the play-head backwards or forwards 1 frame at a time?

- Left and right arrow keys

8.    How do you mark an in or an out point on a clip?

- Press the marker buttons below the clip in the viewer (I and O)

9.    What button in the canvas window do you click on to insert/edit a clip?

- Yellow button

10.  What visual indicator in the viewer lets you know whether you are on the first frame or the last frame?

- Film strip (viewer) or an 'L' in the canvas

11.  Identify 3 ways to create a bin.

-       Right click and new bin

-       File new bin

-       Command B

12.  What are the keyboard shortcuts to save, hide and quit Final Cut Pro?

-       Command S

-       Command H

-       And command Q

Sound

During the 30 seconds of silence, I found that there was still sounds. These were:

• Background noise
• Breathing
• Chair creeking
• Others chatting
• Door moving
• Clothes moving 
• Footsteps

Some of the the different types of music that might be recorded are sound effects, music tracks, live sound from a camera, studio sound, ambience and foley which is rerecording sound effects. Below are the different types of microphones. The boom and handheld microphones require a a 3 pin XLR wire.

Boom Microphone (1 direction)

Handheld Microphone

Clip On Mic

In three's we were given the scenario of what microphone we would use and what problems we might encounter with the mic. Our scenario was filming a short film scene with two people. We decided to use a boom mic. The possible problems were wind noise (a dead cat could help with this), picking up the sound of the cameras and crew, background noise and echoing noise.

Character Creation Brainstorming

Title: Identity

Genre: Romance

Idea: When an undercover reporter who is serving as a police officer, goes to a victims house, he is unaware about his feelings towards her. Going on several dates, Amelia and Jake become close as Jake has filled a gap from Amelia's distant family. When Amelia becomes paranoid, she regrets investigating more about Jake as she finds out he isn't the police officer she thought he was. The couple split up and Jake is featured on newspapers as an undercover scandal who actually fell in love.

Characters:
Jake Smith - Police Officer
Amelia Glass - Victim

Genre: Romance

Audience: 20 - 30's

Title: Identity

Location; Thorpe Bay, Essex

Brief Description:

Amelia thinks she has fallen in love with a police man but little does she know he really is a undercover reporter.

Scene 1: Audience will be finding out about Jake Smith and what he does for a living

Scene 2: Audience will be finding out about Amelia Glass

Scene 3: Amelia and Jake meet at Amelia's house because he will be interviewing her to see if she was involved in the incident

Scene 4: Amelia and Jake began to go on a few's dates and the more dates that went on the more they began to like each other

Scene 5: As they finally began serious and moved in together, they was a question worrying over Amelia's head which was that Jake is hiding something.

Scene 6: Amelia was so on edge and scared of what it could be she finally got the courage to confront him

Scene 7: Jake freaks out and runs away

Scene 8: Amelia follows Jake because she wants to find out the truth

Scene 9: Amelia find out however she doesn't want to believe it

Scene 10: The pair of them have a really deep conversation about everything that has happened which in the end they decide to go separate away because Amelia will never be able to trust him again.

Logline:

Life is on the up for a girl neglected by her family as she finds the man of her dreams. Falling in love, she is unaware of his true identity.

Final Cut Pro

https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B0Mi2vFkLL0pZENKS25xa3c2bTA/edit?usp=sharing