Practice Task

PRACTICE TASK – Review

We were asked to create a shot movie promoting our sixth form. We had to complete the following within the video:

n  create a short (1-2 minutes) video which includes the following:

n  Titles

n  Credits

n  Imported sound (google ‘copyright free music’)

n  Slow motion

n  Colour tint and at least two other effects

This task would help us to grab a basic understanding of filming and editing for anyone who did not know how to do either. It would also help us to have a practice of using the equipment we needed to use for filming our preliminary task and our final task.

I used a … camera using a tripod for some of the filming to make the image stable and not shaky. The editing software I used was Serif Movie Plus X6. I used both pieces of equipment when creating my GCSE coursework and also making videos every so often. I was fairly confident when using this equipment and thus knew how to use both camera and editing software to the best of my ability.

We used a free lesson to set up a camera outside and film the school. We also created a spider diagram beforehand of everything we wanted to include within the video, this wasn’t in too much detail it just contained all of the camera movements and shots we wanted to include.

Our main problem was that people kept interrupting our shots; this meant we had to re film many different scenes. Other than this we had no other problems.

I learnt how to make an effective match on action, and how to use sound bridges to make my work more interesting and intriguing for the audience. I also polished up on my editing skills as I hadn’t used editing software since the summer. If I was to re do this task I would include more text on screen and more experimental camera work instead of using the same types over and over.