November 21st

In todays lesson we imported our clips into Final Cut Express nd start cutting and selecting the relevant clips to use. We thought this would be easy as we had already done this on Windows Movie Maker previously, but we were proved wrong. The camera we used to film our movie recorded all the clips together as one long piece, which meant we had to manually had to troll through the whole film, cutting it apart, creating seperate scenes. I found the process very difficult and almost infuriating due to the fact that we had done various takes of the same scenes. This added to the confusion, making the process take twice as long as it should have if we had used a normal school camera. If we were to re-do this we would have deleted all the scenes that were useless as soon as we filmed them, instead of having to sort them out on the editing programme. Next lesson we plan to get all our clips into a chronological order once again. Once our clips have a sense of order we can then move on, adding in transitions and effects which will improve the overall quality of our opening.