Post-shoot

After the filming over the weekend I was still left with some presents.
I wanted to carry on filming, but the weather hasn’t been on my side and I didn’t really have anyone to help me

So as it stands, the footage from the weekend is the total footage available for my video, as the deadline is tomorrow (technically today now :S).
After getting Toni to send me the footage that was on her memory card and spending quite a while shifting it to/from devices, when I finally watched it there was nothing usable there. Shame. Oh well…

This week I’ve been going to uni to try to edit my video, although on the first day I was just mainly transferring files back and forth, trying to gather it all… and to sort out a problem: for some reason my macbook keeps ejecting my pen drives almost immediately. This has been going on for a while and is a right hassle!! It puzzles me because other things like my Wacom tablet and external hard drives work no problem on my USB port, and the pen drives work fine on other computers o.O

Under the suggestion of John, the technician at uni, I’ve formatted the pen drives.
Then it worked fine… but sadly now, when I most need it, it won’t D:

I’ve been editing my video and saving it on the pen drive, and didn’t finish at uni… so as I don’t have Adobe Premiere at home, I downloaded the trial version (Creative Cloud).
Only to then see that I could do nothing with it as I couldn’t access my files on the pen drive.

So here I am, the night before deadline, not able to progress with it overnight as I intended… trust me, NOT GOOD!!

Oh, and of course, the music student who was meant to do my soundtrack disappeared too!

Fun times!! #not

Anyway, at least it has been very useful to learn about film-making (that sounds so ambitious, though haha more like “learning to just about make a little unpretentious shaky video”) and editing!
Got me thinking very differently to the usual and, although very basic, it included another option in my “creative menu”. I totally wouldn’t mind exploring this further and think it could actually be quite useful in the future – and there’s absolutely no harm in expanding the professional prospects, eh?
I’m glad that I’ll be exploring this at The Cornerhouse (where I’ve been recently chosen to be one of their Digital Reporters).

Well, fingers crossed I can pull a soundtrack out of the bag tomorrow and finish my editing from uni in time! Wish me luck!