Sonia's Television Blog

  I have finally finished my project and decided to look back at the time i started this unit and see what i had improved on since the begining. When we recieved the briefing of the Fiction unit i knew i wanted to grab at the oppertunity and impress not only Mike but myself. I have been waiting to create something totally original and creative. When picking the poem i knew straight away i wanted to do 'Trespass' by John Clare it stood out to me a lot! I have always wanted to work on my personal filming skills and experiment with different kinds of equipment.   When i started to think about what i was going to film i was already inspired by other people on youtube. I wanted to really adapt to the Poem by John Clare and i wanted to experiment with my Filmmaking Skills, even though i did not experiment with the overall video i made something i have never created. When shooting for the video i took out all the equipment posibble to really experiment and learn new skill...

Today i had my final feedback from Mike and i was really excited! I'm still working on my overall video and tweaking it. Mike loved the overall video as a Film and me as a Filmmaker, he explained that i needed to stick to the brief more and be more experimental. What i wanted to do is adapt to the POEM so i was inspired to create the feeling John Clare had while writing the poem, i have never made something so experimental before and really went out of my comfort zone. Mike also picked up some little tweaks in the video of some fuziness and shaking that came up form the warp stabilizer which i need to fix, he also wanted me to add some jump cuts into the video. He mentioned that it was paced well and very emotional and that is what i wanted to adapt too! Mike also said that the music works very well and I did not have to chance it, the voice over sound fine and there isn't much with the audio that i need to change. I now just need to fix the small errors of the 'Warp s...

Since my first edit, i have been working harder each time, I have finally recorded my voice over and added cinematic features into my first draft. As you can see I added black bars to my project due to this making it look just a little bit better. I'm still working on the colour grading since I'm not 100% on what it looks like currently. I am happy with the overall layout, I will also take into account whatever Mike has to say over my first edit this Tuesday. I'm still thinking of changing the music and some of the shots that are included in the project. I really started to develop other skills while editing this project, I started to teach myself all the shortcuts Adobe Premier has to offer and all the effects. I used to edit on FCPX but Adobe is so much more advanced and much more complicated which in fact I like! There are still so many features I am trying to teach myself. While adding the title sequences I wanted to make one that moves and en...

I have started working on my post production process, i also filmed small fillers in the process to add some more experimental shots. I am trying to edit my entire sequence first before actually recording my voice over since i want to do it in order making sure i know what needs to be said on every scene. I started to colour grade on adobe premier and i have always loved to do this, colour grading and editing is the best part. I had a little trouble finding the perfect background track for this project as it needs to be instrumental and very slow, i had a few tracks laid out but none of them fit the scene so i'm still looking for the perfect one. I started to add title sequences and some transitions to really give the piece something to look out for. I am still trying to really work on my colour grading as i don't want it to be over exposed or under exposed so i have to be careful of that. In relation to my voice over i have done a lot of editing and i'm planning now to...