The Editing Process

I have learnt a lot through the process of creating my film in terms of new skills and new stances on the filmmaking process.
I used Final Cut Express in the creation of my film, as well as LiveType for the title cards at the beginning. Both are Mac based technologies which I had never used before. I watched a variety of clips before which showed how to do basic operations on both programmes, although in LiveType I only used the very bare minimum of skill, to create a basic title with an effect on called "Static".

The image above shows Final Cut Express, with my movie in it. This is effectively zoomed out as you can see the entire movie on the sequence editor. I found it relatively easy to use in terms of cropping, clipping and repositioning my clips, as well as matching it up with my music track. It came with a basic Text tool which meant that it was easy to add my credits on the footage.
I found it difficult to add filters that changed the colour of the footage, which was problematic to me as I had wanted to do this, but I eventually found an effect named "Outer Glow" which, whilst not exactly what I had wanted, was quite effective in creating an atmosphere that fitted the general theme of my film.
I enjoyed to construction of my piece because it allowed me to try out a variety of techniques and the entire media project gave me an opportunity to get very creative with my ideas. It might of been better for me to work in a group for the fact that it is easier to come up with a variety of ideas, but I feel that working alone benefitted me because I had complete control over my piece and could do anything I wanted to to it.
This was definitely a lengthy and at times tedious process (for instance trying to apply a filter over the footage and failing several times), but it was enjoyable and has given me a lot of new skills.

Evaluation

Part One of my evaluation can be found below: Part Two of the evaluation can be found here:

"Aaron" Final Edit

This is the final edit of my AS Media Studies piece.

Audience Feedback

Following a rough edit screening of my piece, I learned that not enough people were aware of the religious context behind my piece. In order to combat this, I decided to add in some flashing images which are more of a subliminal message. They flash in brief sequences of three, each sequence on the screen for 0.6 seconds.

During the long sequence showing a bible quote, I have two images of this style flashing in it, to break it up a little and also to reinforce the meaning behind the words.