Film festival - Promo Video

Thursday 17th September

Today i attended the 2nd day of the work experiance which was located at the picture house in Cambridge, when i first arrived i was shocked to realise that already there was work to do, straight away without any words of what to do apart from what Alex and Tim said to me "we are putting cards onto the lanyards" so i set to work on helping them out with them.

The other people in my group showed up after a few minutes and we all set to work on the lanyards, and also some people were just twidling their thumbs with not much to do at all.

After the lanyards were complete we were instructed to either pack some goody bags or distribute some film festival booklets. Me, Matt, Mike, Ali, Joe and Sam chose to hand out the booklets whereas the others in the group decided to pack up the goody bags.

When i had finished giving out the boolets to shops in and around the grafton centre, i was ocntacted by Dave and he told me that Matt (from film festival) said it was ok for me and Dave to go off and edit the rest of the rough cut version of the Promo video for David Rose.

So shortly after arriving back at the picture house me and Dave went off to edit the rest of the rough cut promo video. for the short while i was at the picture house i asked the staff there what there was to do for every one. As the rest of the group were sitting doing nothing and were getting quite bored, so i decided to ask one of the staff what was going on. when i actually went to ask i decided to actually ask more than one member of staff as the first memeber of staff didnt have a clue what was going on at all, and the other staff just said wait for bill thompson i think theres some editing to do, so i informed the other members in the group and told them about Bill Thompson and let them know what was happening etc.

When me and Dave set to do the editing task for the Promo Video we soon realised we had more work to do than we first thought, as the video formats was too small, in otehrwords the video quality wasnt as high as we first thought and a result of this was a blurry set of footage clips, but we worked around it and decided to save it as a rough cut and explain to David Rose that he would have to wait until next week, then me and dave will get the full quality version complete, but will use the rough cut as a guide of what to do in the final promo video.

Also we had trouble when teh editing programe (after effects) crashed during editing the footage / video clips from normal colour to black and white, which would make it ready for the video footage to be placed in the windows as colour footage.

Anyway these errors aside i believe we done the best we could do overall and produced a very good rough cut, and i will look forawrd to what David has to say about it tomorrow when we meet up at 1pm at Long road. Tomorrow i will be starting work at 9pm and will most likely work until 12, when i go to long road and set up the video etc ready for when David Rose shows up to view out promo video rough cut.

Here is our Rough cut video: