Editing Introduction Evaluation

We started off this exercise by learning basic camera settings and techniques. These included how to format the camera correctly including what setting to use frame rate was (24fps 1920-1080p), how to correctly focus without using auto, manual focusing and the exposure triangle.














Having all three off these correct is very important to being able to have a focused shot. If that is what you want. It is recommended that you have your shutter speed double your frame rate. So for film you will have it at 48 and TV 50 fps but because our cameras didn't have 48 we had to round it up to 50 fps. For the ISO it is best to have it between 100 and 400. If it is higher than this the shot will be considered grainy so it's best to have it lower to get a focused shot. When it comes to the aperture the smaller the number the bigger the hole which means the shot would be more blurry in the background, a shallow depth of field. So for example if you  had f22 you would have a very deep focus and not a lot of light coming in.

After we finished recording we had to transfer all of our shots we recorded and transferred them to an editing software called Adobe Premiere Pro. We then had to put them in something called bins. These are called bins because in the olden days actual film were out into bins to stop dust getting onto them. When we sorted out all of our files we started to get to work editing, what we did were basic, but a nice refresher to get me back into the swing of things. These basic editing tools included basic transitions including fading in and out at the start and end of our sequences, adding titles and ending credits and adding soundtracks from a website called Incompetech (https://incompetech.com/) which offer creative commons music as long as you credit them at any point during your film. Creative commons is the author of the music, film etc giving permission for the creator to use their music they have created.


This is a screenshot of the interface we used to edit with.











Overall I think our final film was okay. Our feedback consistently said it was very funny but also everyone said how out of focus it was but overall I believe me, my camera man and co-editor did a good job.


They liked the little dance at the start/

But they didn't like how out of focus the whole film was.