Neil Weaver
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Napolean Dynamite credits? Damn, we didn’t leave enough in the budget for catering!
Thanks for all the suggestions guys. My new tack today is gonna be to start with the soundbites and the soundtrack. Spread out the student voices til they start forming a nicely paced narrative and that should inform which pictures I use and where.
Honestly, editor’s block… That’s a new one on me!
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Hi guys, always good to hear a variety of views on something like this.
There will be some text elements – certainly over the intro that will feed nicely into the school’s motto. Mark, I like the sound of your suggestion, although I’m not sure how to achieve it – is there a tutorial or an example you can point me in the direction of? One idea I had was to use Andrew Kramer’s streaks tutorial as a ‘wipe on’ for the text.
The audience is mainly gonna be prospective students – why should they choose this school – and to that end as well, their parents. I find voiceover a bit of a turn off at the best of times, so I’m keeping adult voices out of this completely. Luckily the kids were surprisingly articulate and passionate about the school, so I’ve got some pretty good stuff from them. Another slight issue though is that the school wants a version that will run mute that they can play on a loop on a screen in their lobby, which means having to find a way to make it cool and interesting with no audio!
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Sadly not. I’d be in breach of numerous laws on protection of children and privacy if I put clips online without permission. Plus, I don’t really want the school to know I’m having trouble with their edit!
I wanted a big focus during the shoot on the joy of learning, discovery and achievement. As I said in the original post, shotwise, I’ve got the elements – it’s putting them together that’s giving me grief!
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In final cut yes – and they’ve not made much difference. I haven’t tried it in AE yet – will see what happens and report back!
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Thanks guys. I did see the video-copilot tutorial, but was after something a wee bit less time-consuming! Andrew Kramer is the bomb though!
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Update then, and I’ve just got back from the reshoot, got what I needed under the guise of going the extra mile for the client so they are none the wiser about the ‘issues’ with the first shoot. Feel much better now.
I was on the original shoot, telling the operator where to position and what shots I was after – hence the reason some of what was shot was ok. It was a highly mobile shoot and simply not possible to watch every shot – when you don’t have a playback monitor, which would have been impractical on this occassion anyway, you have to trust your operator knows what they’re doing. Next time, it doesn’t matter how busy it is, I’m playing stuff back before we get back to base! I also recognise there are failings in this experience where the buck stops with me.
The original shooter has been told their material is basically unusable. They have done the decent thing and waived their fee, (although despite apologising profusely is still claiming to have shooting experience for both MTV and BBC which I find hard to believe). I will see how much if any of their material can be used and if it turns out to be more than I think I will recompense them accordingly, although not in full. I don’t rip people off.
Well, this has been a learning experience all round. Unlikely to happen again as I’m in the process of expanding my talent pool and will make sure any new additions are thoroughly vetted. (They usually are – there was just a lack of time on this one.)
I’ll have to see if I can post any of the offending rushes on youtube – don’t want to give anything away to the client though!
Cheers all,
Neil
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No it’s bad camera work, plain and simple. Amateurish all round. Even the bits I can use are just passive and unengaging.
After a bit of investigating it turns out that this person has plenty of P/D experience but very little on camera. Even still, I would expect someone with over 10 years industry experience to know how to compose a shot, even if they weren’t the best at tracking and moving. You can always inject energy in the afterwards in the edit.
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D’oh! I’d forgotten all about DVD recorders – that has to be how they did it. Footage quality is pretty terrible, but for the purposes of the recording – which was mostly to pick up audio of the neighbour being abusive or walking past their window goose-stepping – it’s satisfactory.
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Converting them to QT movs which are of course working fine in FC. As the footage is mostly hours of a locked off camera with the audio occasionally picking up the neighbour doing something weird or abusive, picture quality isn’t an issue for a (welcome) change. I’ve made the frame size as small as possible to keep the file sizes down so hopefully it’s a smooth ride to the export now!
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Just had the exact same problem: in point marked at end of edit for some reason- and fixed it with Todd’s solution. Thanks mate- I was about to start some serious deconstruction and rebuilding of hard drives til I saw your post!