Film for college:

For my communication’s module I had to make a video for the college. The college also had an open day coming up so we decide to make a promo video for our course. For this I had to come up with ideas to show off each of the modules then go out and film it and then edit it. I had decided to do a montage of each of the modules to show what we do and what you could do in the course.­­­­­­­­­­­­­­ The biggest pull to our course is for the film and editing so we knew we would have to show that off the most.

I started our filming with us doing a mock green screen recording and getting 5 to 6 different camera angle of us just talk on the green screen, most of the shot where over the shoulder or from behind the camera to give the look of you are there watching us film. I made sure to get a lot of green in each shot as I could make a sort of mise en scene with using the green glow that the green screen gave off. That would make sure that the audience new the all the shot where linked and gave us a nice consistence in that section for the promo video.

Then we moved on the editing, which I had to upload the clips from the filming of the green screen on to a Mac computer and open it in Final Cut Pro set it up so I could make the editing look like it took no time at all. After that we moved on the shorter clips of us in the class room do your work with different programs open. Then we went up and did over the shoulder shots of us working on music, web design, image editing, communications, graphic design and we got b-roll of pan shots of the class to break up the montage.

Then the filming was done so I up loaded all the shots on to one of the Macs and started to do the editing. I kept in mind the rule of six as this was not a story I could not use all the rules but then where help full anyway, as well the research I had do on mise en scene and even the soviet montage theory I could use so of the theory and apply it to my edits.

So I stated my editing with the film keeping the shots with to do with it with green in them to keep them linked as well that followed into the editing. With the rest of the editing it was more to show what programs we used and the quality of your work with a little of the process of how we did your work as that is a longer process than we had time to show in the short promo video. I also add title to each of the scenes of the montage so you know what module it was in the video. I the get a song off the internet to play over the promo video. Once I had add it to the video I had to change some of the edits to fit the song better as a cut should really happen on a beat of the song this helps to keep a pace in the video.