These last two weeks have been nothing short of chaotic and crazy, with some people not showing up others being ill and then the iceing on the cake on the last few days of the second week our 'director' snapped the tendons in his foot so we had to try and finish the project with three of us, i only heard from James in the second week, he'd been having out of college issue which was fair enough, but with that and Chris hurting himself it really messed things around for the rest of us, i'm just glad we got it finished off.
Unfortunately people wasn't one of our biggest worries, it was the equipment we had used, Gaz kindly let us use his camera (originally) we were going to use Chris' but with his sudden departure from the able team we had to resort to using Gaz's. We were quite happy going off and filming with his camera but when we got back to the studio all hell broke loose, we had so much trouble trying to get a piece of software that could read the format that the file was in, it saved as a .ASF file (the camera uses a memory card and not film as well so it was alot harder to convert) if it was just in film we could of just captured it directly into a video editing software program such as Final cut pro, a really good professional program. Unfortunately once more we had trouble, the good editing programs just simply could not read the .ASF file type and in the end we had to use the very amature program Windows media maker because it was the ONLY program that play the video which we finally exported to a .WMV file type thinking we could trick the computers into playing it on the good programs for final edit tweaks.
Could we be so lucky?
no.. seems not.
We handed it in yesterday, i am quite happy with what we got in the end (with all the problems we had that is), but i know i am capable of so much more and watching it yesterday with everyone made me a little annoyed we couldn't of got it to a higher standard.
Also after seeing everyone else's stuff it really did help with some of the future breifs we have to do since we are doing 5 briefs in rotation, i really enjoyed the other film groups video and hope to outshine them on the next video project, lets just say i learnt a lot from out first one on how NOT to do things. :)
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This week we have Audio, i am relatively confident that i will be able to get this one done since i am quite competent in editing and audio.
but i thought that about the video too, so i guess we'll find out soon enough! haha
Ps. The ones i am most looking forward too are the Photography ones which i have in week 3!
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