Nisserin Bessioua - UCA Television Production

Today was our final editing workshop where we went over some of the things we had learnt in the previous workshops and were taught how to fix an audio clip with background noise in Audition CC 2015. We learnt how to create a title page and insert it into a sequence. this is helpful for when I need to create a title or end credits for my productions. We were also taught how to remove background noise from an audio clip. After opening the clip in Adobe Audition, we selected a small section of the noise we wanted to remove, used noise reduction and then changed some setting until it sounded the way we wanted it. We practiced colour correction with certain clips from Fairly Legal, some had a slight blue tone where others were more orange and the colours had a much higher saturation. By using the three-way colour correct, we changed the settings to match up the colours as much as possible.  The ripple delete tool can be used to cut down or lengthen a clip, it ...

On Monday, we looked at story boarding and how it is done. 'They are a series of sketches, used as a planning tool to visualise the action on a story unfolds.' They are used in the production stage of a film/TV show as a guide to setting up the shots, however not all TV shows and films use them. They focus on the key shots that make up the scene or sequence. Programmes such as Eastenders will use a shot list instead of a storyboard as their story is quite easy to follow. They are done in black and white and can be in lots of detail or stick men. I have started to storyboard my own script, choosing the most important shots to include.       

In our third editing workshop, we were looking at audio and how to use one audience track so that the sound stays the same, but syncing it up with different clips. The clips we were given were quite dialogue heavy which would have made it difficult to cut up the audio, so by making a 'radio edit' and getting the audio to work first it made it easy to just match up the different shots over the top of the dialogue.   We learnt that when editing a video with dialogue,  making the dialogue start and then cutting to a shot of the person talking makes it seem more natural and demphasises the cuts. This is achieved by using the ripple delete tool to make the clips start after the dialogue and flow nicely.

In our third camera workshop, we spent the time testing out the audio options on the camera. We filmed inside using a Rode microphone attached to the camera, we experimented with the audio making the subject move forwards and backwards looking at how it affects the sound depending on the distance between them and the camera.  This workshop was helpful because we learnt how to adjust the settings on the camera to suit the location. We also went outside and filmed some clips to see how different locations can effect your audio quality and how you have to adapt microphone for example putting the wind shield on to break up the frequencies. When I film my project, I will need to make sure that I use the correct settings as I am filming outside soother will be much more background noise which I will need to look out for. 

In today's camera workshop, we were learning about the 180 degree rule. This means when filming a scene in different shots the camera cannot cross the line from the subjects otherwise, if you are filming two people having a conversation they will look like they are facing the same way and not looking at each other. This was useful in that it is something that I will need to remember when directing my project. If I was to do this project again, I would use different shots and be more creative with them.  

Using the short film Soft by Simon Ellis, Sammi and I created a trailer for the film. We chose to fade specific clips together in order to make them flow nicely, between clips of the main character walking and a a fast paced sections of people running and some action happening because we wanted these sections to be more jumpy and create more tense atmosphere.    We decided to put two clips next to each other and play in sync, emphasising the 'father and son' idea and how they are put in similar situations but deal with it very different ways. I found this task helping in that I learnt to chose the post important parts to include in the trailer which is something I will consider when story boarding my 2-minute section of my script.   

Alone. Alone is what this man is. Years after the world ended and the human race perished; this is the only man left standing. How did he survive? What caused the outbreak? We don't know. No one does. This short film gives you an inside look on what the only man left alive does on a day-to-day basis, what he does to survive, kill time, and keep himself sane. Alone, directed by Brock Torunski is a 6 minute short film about a man who is the only one left on the planet. I found that this short film uses lots of exposition which is not really needed as an audience can tell by the conventions used such as a deserted location and  a slight blue tint which gives the film a cold atmosphere some of what is going on in the film.  The film is a long a descriptive monologue which leaves nothing for the audience to imagine. I think that this closes the film of to a wide audience because not everyone will be able to relate to is, if there is some room for the audie...