Week 5! Oh lately it’s so quiet…
This week I spent Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday in the MML. On Monday, I spent 1:30-5:30 logging, capturing, and reviewing lots of footage. This included footage from week 3, week 4, and old family events with Ro. Tuesday I spent 1-5 burning some of my old films onto DVDs and looking at more old family footage of Ro. The tapes I have of random family footage taken from the past year are poorly labeled so it is taking some time to sort through them and find all the clips of Ro. I want to log and capture every piece of footage I have of baby Ro so I have the most options for clips for my final film. Wednesday I spent 3-5 watching the footage I’ve logged and trying to get a general picture of what I have and how I can make it into something linear. I started putting some clips down into the timeline and I think I have about the first 3 min edited. WOO
On Thursday at the affinity group meeting I showed clips of the raw footage I have at this point. Which was…
Ro getting off the ferry
My mom playing with Ro
And interviews with…
Steve
Mindy
Jilly
Ellen
Some of my shots weren’t lit well enough (which I was aware of before) and a tip I was given was to try to have shots where the natural light is facing the person, not back-lighting them. I really don’t like to use unnatural light unless I really have to, but maybe I will consider using a key light next time. I also have discovered that I cannot completely trust the little LCD screen on the camera because the shot is always going to appear brighter than it actually is. I will probably do some color correction/brightness adjustment when I edit my footage. Another thing: if my subject talks with his/her hands, I need to frame accordingly.
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