Film Reflection 17

April 23rd 2009 - Intellectual Property

This lesson, Clare and I started to continue editing Clare's video, because her's was still half completed. We managed to insert many of the images we took in Times Square onto final cut pro and changed all of their speed to 15 milliseconds. Clare's intellectual property is "copying and selling fake goods illegally", her idea of the video was to capture images of famous brands, such as "dior", "chanel", "anna sui",etc, and also capture pictures of fake goods in lady's street, Causeway bay. Her goal was to adjust the speed of the images to match the beat of the music, so the pictures would flash quickly showing real and fake goods together. After adjusting the speed of all the images allowing it match the beat of the music, Clare decided that she would not include a dialogue because she thought it was better without it, and also due to the lack of time left, we couldn't record her dialogue. After editing Clare's video, we edited my project. I was very pleased with my work and I thought I was almost done editing already, I only needed to add a banner, but due to the fact that the background color could not be changed, I decided to make an image instead, and insert it in to the video. Due to the fact that the jail scene wasn't captured very well, Clare and I decided to re-take the scene again, because it would only take a second to do. We went down to the auditorium, where there were bars that looks like that ones in jail. We took about 10 minutes to adjust the camera stand, because the bars were near the stairs, we couldn't adjust the camera stand to be straight, which made the camera slanted. After 10 minutes we decided that I would hold the camera instead, because the tripod could not stand straight on the stairs. Because the background was the auditorium, we needed something as the background. Clare and I found wooden planks on the floor and decided that they should be the background. Because the planks were not long enough, we took two and placed it together at the back of the scene. I recorded the scene and I was pretty satisfied with it. We captured the clip onto the computer, and I edited it so that it would be in the correct place in the video. When I re-watched it, I was quite angry because I saw a gap between the two wooden planks at the background, which showed a bit of the auditorium. Because of this, I decided to adjust the color of the scene and make it darker because I wanted to make the gap at the back less obvious. After making the scene darker, I thought the jail clip looked a lot better, and it also suited the atmosphere of the scene; dark, gloomy. After that, I went online and downloaded a sound effect of the jail door closing, I thought this could add on to the dark jail effect. I imported the sound effect into the video and adjusted the placement of it until it matched the jail scene. Clare and I tried to add subtitles to both of our video, but we failed to figure out how to do so. My goal for next lesson is to create an image about illegal camcording that included text about it, I would also need to edit my dialogue. I also need to add subtitles for my video. Overall, my video is nearly done, and I am quite satisfied with the outcome. I thought this lesson was very useful because my video is nearly completed! :)