Friday 5 December 2014

The day of the presentation and I decide to do a last-minute edit. So I have deleted the finished video, to make room for the new edited video on my sd card. However it kept restarting and now is taking even longer to encode.

Saturday 29 November 2014

Adding subtitles and music

I have recently added subtitles to my video, but it is not as good as i want it to be because you are unable to change the font of the text, only its colour and position on the scree, without a software designed for the purpose of subtitles. Due to my current financial status, I will not be able to pay for this.

Additionally, I have also added music as a backing track for the video in order to set a dramatised effect on the video. With regards to the music, not only did I add music, I learned how to edit it. Cutting at different sections lowering the decibels of each section I cut to overall produce a fade in music. I have linked the backing track to the video so that a different scene would occur at different beats. Especially at the beginning when the music has a fast paced beat, the video would be adjusted to match. 



Wednesday 19 November 2014

Completion of the Gantt Chart

I have completed two separate Gantt charts showing the change and development f my plans, though i haven't shown the difficulties that occurred and how they had taken up my time.
First original plan:


The secondary plan and how my time was actually spent in the Philippines.

The major difficulty I had was because i did not solely go to the Philippines for my EPQ, it was also to have a vacation and spend time with my relatives. therefore I had to base my plan around the plans my family had, which meant less time doing my EPQ.  

Tuesday 18 November 2014

Bad Audio with the GoPro

Watching over the footage I have and it seems that the footage I collected lacked good audio and therefore to fully narrate what is currently happening in the film I will be using subtitles. This may help engage the audience more. However an argument would be that the audience will be too focused on reading the subtitles instead of watching the video. Nevertheless, I don't know any other way to help alleviate the lack of narrative.

Sunday 16 November 2014

Learning how to create a Gantt chart

I have currently learned how to create a Gantt chart using Microsoft Excel for the completion of my EPQ plan. I have used Tom's planner initially, however I was not able to print it off because I had to pay for the whole software in order to print. So I have incorporated the plan I had done and manually copied it into excel. With the help of internet resources such as "https://www.ablebits.com/office-addins-blog/2014/05/23/make-gantt-chart-excel/" I was able to create a Gantt chart. Additionally, I was not able to follow my original plan step by step due to some complications which I did not foresee, therefore, have changed the original plan to what I have actually done and will make a new plan to compare it to the original.

Saturday 18 October 2014

Missing Footage

I have missing footage such as the actual journey to Philippines and the car journey to the farm apart from a couple of clips from the "Jeep"(public transport) so this means that the video may not flow as well as I planned. This was due to me deleting the footage after transferring the files to my iPad, under the impression that I will be using the iMovie app from Apple. Ultimately, the footage in my iPad is unusable as the conversion of the footage means that it is too small and will only be pixelated if used in the video. This is a major drawback as the video will go straight into Philippines missing out any needed introductions or transitions from England to Philippines.
But I've began to put clips together with the aid of Youtube tutorials and so far it has been okay. the level of difficulty with using Premiere Pro will only increase if I try to complicate the process in which I edit the videos to avoid this I will try to keep it simple.

Monday 13 October 2014

Premiere Pro CC

This past month's focus was trying to create my Personal Application as best as possible as well as the completion of my UCAS application along with research of different universities that has physiotherapy courses.
Nevertheless, I have downloaded the 30 day trial version of Premiere Pro cc, it's format is the same as the one from my college but because I wasn't actually able to use the premiere pro in college, I still need to learn. At least I know which resources are the most useful to aid in this endeavour.