Video Skills Development

In order to gain and develop filming and editing skills, we produced a 30-seconds video around college including different camera angles and movements.

Editing

The editing software that we used is Adobe Premiere Pro CS6. As this was our first experience with this software, we learned basic stuff such as how to drag a video to a different platform, unlink the sound from the video in order to put another music with the video and how to export the final video from the software to upload it on youtube after. Two important things that we learned and used today as well was how to add text to our video and also how to put effects to transitions.

Filming

In terms of filming, we had to make sure that we tried different camera angles and movements. We started the video with a POV of someone walking up the stairs following by a mid-shot of himself to introduce the first character to the audience. We then continued with a POV and used a mid shot of the second character with a shot of him leaving the room. The last scene includes a long shot of the first character looking towards the window following by a close up of his face.

Advanced Portofolio Initial Ideas & Audience Feedback

Initial Ideas

Feedback:

The feed backs received by my target audience were overall good. I noticed a preference for the second Idea which is the short film about basketball. Some feedbacks were very constructive as some parts of this short-film might be difficult to realise like filming in a medical office, and therefore these feedbacks opened my eyes to those kind of problems I might have during production. Now that I have identified the things to change, I can now find solutions to make it happen.