Second day - Tara Cox

For my second day at the arts picture house for work experience I put down my times of availability from 9 - 5. I arrived at 9 and was told by Matt to help him edit today, along with a couple of other members of the diploma.

Firstly, Ash and I edited 35 minutes of a Q & A with a film director from the night before, which was from the film ' White Lightnin'. We were asked to cut 35 minutes of recording down to just 5 minutes. Therefore we had to go through each bit of the footage in order and listen to it, before cutting out in our opinion some irrelevant bits - such as pauses, too long answers etc. We were left with some of the best answers which were relevant to the film and this was converted to MPEG4 file and put onto a USB stick for Matt Waters.

After this I was then asked to edit an hour worth of footage from the film 'The army of crime' followed by a Q&A with director Robert Guédiguian. It was roughly an hour long pod cast which needed to be shortened again to 5 minutes. This was what took the majority of time - as editing in Garageband was fairly new to me, I had only briefly done it before so learning to cut etc on a big Mac computer was also different than what it would have been on the Macbooks from our diploma.

Philippa, Loz and I set to work on the editing, Loz was then asked to do another task so it was me and Philippa who were left to do the editing together. Philippa had a go first showing me what to do, and then I had a go for the remaining half an hour until the end of shift 1 at 1pm. We managed to shorten down an hours worth of footage to jut 29 minutes or so in the time we had which was good considering this. There were a lot of pauses etc in the pod cast so this also helped quite a bit. Alex and Hayden did the podcast for today so it as nice to do some editing which was new to me.

I finished my earlier shift at 1, and I had worked out the previous day that it would be helpful if I could upload some blog posts and things I had done onto the CFF website or the film festival website. look at the website here. Overall I think today has been another good experience, and I enjoyed editing as it was something different to what I was used to.

For the ideas of work at home, I was asked to think of some ideas to shoot or record for the film festival.

- I think a few good ideas would be some interviews with customers about the film festival in general, perhaps some upcoming films and some further questions.

- I also think some footage etc of the picturehouse n general would be good, when it is busy with people coming in and out of film screenings etc - in order to promote the festival.

- I will also try to draft a pod cast for either tomorrow or monday. I will not be doing work experience at the weekend so if I write a podcast it will be for some of the students that are working tomorrow. If the podcast is for monday then that will also be helpful for the people who do the podcast, whether it's for me or other students that do the podcast that day.

I have just had a look at the online festival brochure and cannot make out what the films are like, the text for the films are clear as seen in the above picture, but they also need brief summaries in order to promote them for the audience.

However without seeing the text i cannot do this as the text is very unclear and too little to see from the online brochure. It would have been very helpful if I would have brought a brochure home from the festival, but the one I did have I gave in today thinking I may not need it. However, today will try to write out the other parts of the script for the Podcast for monday.