Equipment

Since our AS production, i feel that me and Faith (especially) have became more experienced with our editing skills and that we have a more rounded knowledge of how to work the basics to Final Cut Pro X. However, i feel that we had some missing spots with our knowledge. At the end of AS Faith had no idea how to edit anything, leaving it all to me. Therefore I decided that i should help her edit effectively, so the work  can be easily more equally distributed.

This video helped me with six different effects on advanced editing. I feel that i could apply these techniques towards my media production to make our production seem a lot more professional in terms of the usage of different editing techniques. They also shown me the editing shortcuts using the keyboard to select the tools I wanted which saves a lot of time and effort. Editing takes arguably the longest to do which means that our editing skills have to be up to scratch. I have also been showing Faith how to edit so she isn't always so dependant on me for the editing. Whilst I have been showing the basics, I have been playing around, using more advanced knowledge to play with editing. From this I have actually found that using a dim colour slightly in the background can change the feel to a picture. For example giving a slight tint of dark blue can set a darker and dimmer atmosphere.

We will obviously be using tripods to stabilize certain shots, as well as using handheld to make sure that there is a wide range of shots used. I personally like the handheld feel to the performance as it helps to give a distorted and corruption of reality sense towards it. The shake effect also gives a feel of enigma, as it is harder for the audience to know what is going on (with excessive fast repetition of shaking). The shaking can however either make a performance better, by heightening emotions with it, or it can make the film look terrible. Shaking camera's do work best when it is used in conjunction with a point of view shot, showing the fear in the characters. 

  If possible we would stay away from the shots that require zoom as it makes the finishing piece a lot more pixelated, which makes our performance look and come across as a more amateur production and we want the best quality possible. In a zoomed frame it is harder for the camera to get good colours and the picture quality becomes a lot worse than the non zoomed frame. 
We would also use a microphone to pick up on the voices of the actors and actresses,to make sure our sound isn't too muffled. If our sound was too muffled, and hard to hear, then we would have to re-shoot the film scene which would waste some of our production time. It can also give the sound a more crisp finish, making it seem lot more professional.