making the video
For comlab we had to create a 2 minute video piece. I teamed up with Rucyl and Shilya for the project. Drawing the story board was actually took longer than I expected. We wanted to use some material from the 55 sentence stories we wrote before, but found some of the scenes too hard to shoot. In the end we decided to do something in the kitchen since we all loved to eat and figured we'd have a lot of fun playing with veggies. We ended up with a story about vegetables being massacred (cooked).
The hardest part of the shooting was getting the lights right. Since we were in a small confined space, there was a lot of reflection off the walls. It must have taken us at least an hour to figure how to bounce the light off the white walls properly. Once we got that part we decided not to change the lighting too much, so we shot a ton of footage before we moved onto the next scene. We actually just ended up with two scenes, on with the veggies laid out on the table and me cutting/slicing it, and anothe with the lights off of a boiling pot.
Usng Final Cut Pro was actually easier than I had imagined. A lot of the functionalities were similiar to audio editing programs, so having struggled through Audacity for our sound piece was actually a blessing in disguise. My favorite feature in Final Cut was how we could name clips so we could find it easily for editing. I wish they had that for Audacity!! We stuck with the scenes we had drawn in the storyboard, so editing did not take long. When we added audio, we had to do some slight adjustments in times to match beats of the music, but it wasn't too hard to do.
Overall editing video was a much more pleasureable than editing audio. When editing audio, it was easy to identify if something did not sound right, but I had no idea how to fix it. I didn't really have this problem with video. I think that is true for most people, since unless you're a musician/audiophile you really don't know how to make audio better.