Our final edited video

Today we edited the movie, to edited the clip we used 'final cut pro'. Firstly we had to drag our clip into final cut pro, and then we 'renderder' it so that it would play. After rendering the clip we got rid of the audio, and to do this we had to go onto 'modify' and then down to 'link' and then this was able to let us click on the audio and then press delete to get rid of it.  We then had to slow the moive down and reverse it, so do to this we went onto 'modify' then down to 'speed' and then a box popped up and we clicked 'revers' ad changed the speed from 100% to 50%. We then needed to cut the clip so we went to the cut icon on the right hand side, and then clicked onto the part that we wanted to cut, and preset delete so then we were left with the part of the clip we wanted. 

After doing this we decided to add another video to make it longer and it give it more of an effect. To do this we had to drag the video we wanted into 'final cut pro' and then we slowed it down they same way as before. We also cut the clip to were we wanted it to. After doing this we had to put a transformation (dissolve) into the video so that it didnt jump from one clip to another. We then added a sound clip to it so that it gave a better effect (Raindrops Keep Falling On My Head). We downloaded the song of youtube using youtube converter, after we had downloaded this we dragged it into 'Final cut pro' and then we used the 'cut' tool to cut the song to were we wanted it to play from. Then we faded the song out to make the video as a whole look a lot better.
Finally, we had finished the video and then we exported it using 'quicktime player'

However the first time we edited it, we done exactly the same and then we saved the video once we had edited it and added the sounds and transformations, but then we forgot to export it using 'Quicktime player' and therefore it resulted into us having to start from the beginning. Due to us making the video first it we knew exactly what we needed to do.

Evaluation

For this assignment we had 6 weeks to plan and shoot our own BBC 2 ident, we worked in a group of 5 and each person had a role, we all had to work as a team to produce a good outcome for our video.
I think our final idea was good and effective and was different from any other idents that i've seen. I wouldn't change our final idea if we had to do the assignment again because it worked well and i think it would make it as a proper ident if we sent it to BBC 2.
Firstly we came up with 3 idea's and brainstormed how we could produce the clips and the equipment and props we would use. We then chose our final idea after researching and looking at Youtube video's of previous idents.
We decided on the skittles idea, so we went out and brought bags of skittles to experiment with, we produced test shots of our final clip and figured out the lighting, how to drop the 2 etc.
We then made our 2 out of foam board and then painted it white to make it stand out in the colours of the skittles. After making our 2, two people in our team shot the final video... this is where our team work didn't work because two people took control of everything and produced and edited the final video without letting the rest of the team in on the action.
If i was to do this assignment again i think i would only work with a few of the people that were in my group because the others took control and didnt tell us anything. I also think we should have recorded clips of our other idea's instead of just one. We were originally going to record each one but as time ran out and our team didnt work together as well we didnt get to record.

Our final video before editing...

Now our 2 is made and painted we did a few more test shots and fixed our lighting then we prepared to make our final video...
Some of our team came into college on Friday to finish the 2, then in free time on Monday we filmed our final clip. We are going to edit the clip by reversing it in slow motion to show the effect of the skittles.
The editing shouldn't take long if our editor grasps the editing software easily.

This is the first go at editing our clip, we reversed the clip.