Filming

I have a little bit of experience with filming outside of this course which made it alot easier to use the camera. The JVC Everio is ideal for our project as its compact and ready for use. I began filming on my group continuity second piece along side with Zach as Yusif and Alaa tried a little acting. This was the first time the group had started filming in public areas which became a challenge especially when a group from our class had decided to film beside us in the same location for our second continuity.

Editing

Using iMovie
I actually found my first time using imovie an easy experience. The programme is quite straight foward, although it did help seeing it being used before by zach.
I was actually quite pleased with the outcome and would definitely recommend it to begginers.

iMovie

iMovie is a proprietary video editing software application which allows Mac users to edit their own home movies.

To organize, just import. Plug in virtually any digital camcorder and iMovie starts importing your video. Then iMovie helps you organize your video just as you organize photos: by putting everything in one central location and grouping video clips according the date they were taken. So it’s easy to find the clips you’re looking for — whether to watch or to edit. Don’t have a camcorder? You can still use iMovie: It displays video you captured on your still camera and imported into iPhoto.

iMovie '09 supports the most popular video formats like AVCHD and MPEG 4, and even the new iFrame video format. iFrame is designed to make importing and editing video fast and easy without taking up a lot of space on your hard drive.

Working together

Alot of the filming production involved the group as a whole getting together and planning several pieces of work in which contributions were vital. Examples of which are followed script writting/dialog, story boarding, location scouting and most importantly our open idea board.


The group and I are working on a story board for our first continuity piece

The group

Alaa

Ashwin

Yusif

Zach