fiction adaptation finished piece

Fiction Adaptation, finished.

After many hours of editing it is finished, yay.  I' am quite happy with what I have managed to achieve, and although I have had to alter sections that I hadn't planned to alter, I prefer the final piece with the alterations. One of the things I changed was the music. Originally the piano piece I had in was very nice, but somehow didn't give the film the feel I was looking for. So the piece I used instead is Infatuation by Robert J P Oberg. I love his music, and he is very original, and offers his music for free download on his site, which is very useful. I also decided that I wasn't going to use a V.O for the poetry, but instead on screen text, as this would be less distracting. Also my V.O man is away on his holidays, and if I couldn't have him, there really wasn't anyone else..  It has been nice to be able to edit from home, as well as being a lot easier in relation to the easter break and looking after my daughter.
Its nice to be at the end of this unit, as the essay is almost done, and the film is complete, this will mean I can concentrate more on the as-live work..

Fiction Adaptation, The shoot.

The shoot went well, although it was easy, as I had three children with me at the time, and I spent most of my time trying to keep them out of shot. The lighting on the day wasn't as forecast (sunny) but instead it was overcast with a lot of glare reflecting off the bottom of the clouds. My actor did an amazing job, considering he hates the camera, and getting a photograph of him is almost impossible. The cannon 7d was really good to use, it took a little playing around with to set it up how I wanted it, and it doesn't do too well with close up shots, but the picture quality is very nice. Exporting the media afterwards, wasn't straight forward. instead of importing directly to final cut, I had to import the media through i-capture, then import from there into final cut. Little annoying, but I got there in the end.

Fiction Adaptation, update

Its been a while since I last blogged, but to be honest I haven't felt I've had much to blog about..
After having successfully created the title sequence for the fiction adaptation unit, I was then unable retrieve the file of the computer, so that I could use it. This resulted in me uploading it to youtube, and having to rip it off again from home. I have been doing my editing at home, which has made life a little easier over  the easter break.