Friday 7th March 2014

Around 11:00am, since we had finished our final edit for our project, I decided that i would make a start on the evaluation as I had done a lot of work towards the filming, editing and of course the voice over audio and so I knew then changes that had been made or added throughout the production process. After glancing back at the storyboard, I worked out that I had in actual fact added a completely new scene which was the green-screen. However, despite this particular scene not appearing on the storyboard, I feel like it worked well as it helped to give a conclusion across about the Peregrine Falcon.

Wednesday 5th March 2014- 10:45- 12:15am

At the start of the lesson, myself and Dan started to add the final touches too our filming project on the Peregrine Falcon. Dan's job was too edit down the audio for the green-screen as well as taking a few screen grabs to help demonstrate his personnel contribution which he is going to upload onto his blog at a later date. However, after dan had finished his part of editing, I took the responsibility of changing all of the audio levels using the tab called "effects control" where I was then able to use a setting called audio gain which meant that i could increase and decrease the sound levels for the audio clips. After I had edited the sound levels for the voice over, I listened all the way through the edit to make sure that I was happy with the finished product, but soon after I decided to decrease the audio for the sea sound effect as it sounded very loud after playing the sound effect through the headphones.

After the lesson had finished, myself and dan took the laptop back to the technician as we had finished the editing which meant that we could finally get the film project exported from Premiere Pro, which then meant that our project would have hopefully been uploaded to the college's YOUTUBE channel by the end of the week.

Tuesday 4th Febuary 2014

Towards the end of this afternoon's lesson, I noticed that I hadn't yet uploaded the link from the media server too get my raw footage and so I went on the media server but I found out that my raw footage hadn't been uploaded. However, I then decided to email Rob Scott to remind about how important that it was that I got the link as it meant that I could then get on with the final piece of work which was the evaluation for the Unit.

 

Tuesday 4th March 2014- 9:15- 10:45am

At the start of the lesson, I got out the mac from the laptop bag and started to import some of the audio files and renamed them in the folder where all of the work for Unit 43 was kept. After the files had been imported onto Premiere pro, Dan then edited the sound audio down to the correct size that was required for the start of scene D which portrayed a short clip at the start of the sea. After the sea clip had been edited, I then had to import the seagull audio file of the audio CD which yet again was positioned within the Unit 43 folder, reducing the chances of the audio file being lost.

Friday 28th February 2014

Towards this afternoon, I started to get hold of the screen grabs that I had taken on Wednesday while Dan and myself were starting to edit the audio and final parts of footage to make our product of a high technical standard. For the first part of editing, we moved the audio from the CD onto the data drive for the mac and then from there we imported the CD track to Premiere pro which then allowed Dan to drag and position the audio on the timeline. However, it was my job to rename the files before they were imported onto the editing timeline.

Below is a picture to help explain the step above to show how I renamed the audio files and how they were positioned on the Premiere Pro timeline.

After we had positioned the sound effect of a peregrine on the timeline, I quickly made sure that I had added the flip-over transitions on both sides of the map to make it stand out but I had to make sure that the flip over on either side of the map amounted to the same time frame, otherwise it could look jumpy or even run over the next scene of footage which would be a disaster. I was really happy with the overall idea behind the map as it flipped-over and showed up with the words "almost to the point of extinction, here in the South West" and then straight after the words it filled over again which then lead to a fade for the next scene (shows that we used many effects to make our product of a high standard.

Below a picture has been used to help demonstrate the use of effects towards the South West map.

Wednesday 26th February 2014- 10:45- 12:30

At the start of the lesson, myself and Dan went down to the technicians office to get the mac as we wanted to play around with the sound effects for the project, as we had worked out that from the raw footage, we didn't have enough sounds of birds, but then I remembered from last week that on one of the audio CD's it contained a Peregrine call which I thought wold be useful to use for the bird flying sequence as they would call whilst gliding in the air across a field. However, I told Dan where abouts that I wanted the audio track too go and so it was up to him to position it in the correct position. After the clip had been placed, we then got together and played the clip over and over again to make sure that it sounded good and that it did in fact fit with the video clip of the Peregrine's flying sequence.

I am going to hopefully write up a blog post with a screen grab to show how I edited the map together with a flip-over on either side to give a force effect.

Tuesday 25th February 2014- 2:30- 4:00 pm

Towards this afternoon's lesson, myself and Dan sat down together and carried on with the editing list that we had started in the previous lesson. At the end of the lesson, we had finished of the editing list and we were going to upload it to our blogs as the lecturer told us too.

Below is the editing list for our film project- Unit 43;