Split Screen - Trial One

As some of our footage was saved as MP4 and took a while to change the files we used this time to practice some of the editing we plan to include in our final music video.
We attempted to use a fade in and out of Adam and learned some rules we need to follow in order to make it work effectively.

To do this well you must first ensure that your camera is on a steady tripod. Next to help you, you can put markers on the floor (selotape) in order to see where your artist should stand to be in frame of the camera. You must always make sure that your lighting remains the same and noone interrupts and walks past the filming as they have done in the trial video above.

You then add all the clips and layer them on final cut pro on top of each other then crop them so that they fit in perfectly with each other. A mistake we made in our video is that we left a gap which left a black strip through the middle right of the video.

This practice helped us learn what not to do and what must be done to carry out effective editing and achieve the highest marks.

Audience Task

Profile:

Name: Craig Simon

Age: 18

Occupation: College student (Performing Arts College), Part-time retail assistant

Residence: Camden, London

Transport: Public transport, occasionally skates to locations.

 

Craig aspires to become a dance teacher in a very high status dance college in America teaching less fortunate children the art of dancing. His favourite type of dance is break dancing and new school.

Image/Style:

Shops in: H&M, Vans, Office, Choice, Camden Market, Quarter, Asos.

Craig loves his footwear and claims he has 35 pairs, mainly being high tops and vans!!

Hobbies:

Craig loves to skate and b-boy during his spare time. He also plays the drums sometimes, he used to be in an indie band however they split up.  He enjoy listening to old school hip hop, rap, indie, some pop rock and r&b music. Music is a big influence on Craigs life and he has more than 2000 songs on his ipod.

Craig teaches b-boy at his local youth club every thursday he works with children aged between 9 - 13. He also takes part in battles with different b-boy crews which are usually held at the London Trocodero. He also attends the gym 3 times a week in order to keep strong as he puts a lot of weight on his arms when break dancing. 

 Radio Stations:

Craig is very up to date with technology. He owns a blackberry and an iphone and enjoys using social networking sites such as twitter and facebook.