18th December

today was the deadline for the project and i got it handed in on time burned to a DVD with no trouble at all i used IDVD to burn the disk and with the help of a friend i was able to work out how to use it as i couldnt quiet remeber how to use it from our school trip to the apple mac store but once the dvd was burned it was handed in with half a lesson to spare and i was very happy to have gotten that project out of the way

16th December

so after having converted the files into a format i could use on a mac i spent around 2 hours editing and a fair bit of that was during free periods. after i was done i realised i didn't have the sound turned up so i turned it up and started the video only to find out the sound had been corrupted during the conversion i wasn't too worried as i had time to fix the problem but i was a little annoyed as macs were supposed to be easy to use and they weren't being very friendly to me.

when i got home i decided that the quickest and easiest thing to do would be to find the old windows media files that were not corrupted. i hadn't deleted as incase i did have a problem.
so i booted up windows movie maker which i have had some experience using editing home videos of family days out and i started to edit my footage. 45 minuets and 1 crash later i was finished. the project was saved and converted into a format the mac would accept and checked for sound quality which thankfully was much better this time i whacked it onto a memory stick and i was ready to burn it to a DVD next lesson

15th December

over the weekend i got the footage of of my camera and onto a memory stick ready for editing on the apple macs unfortunately i hadn't anticipated the macs not taking the format windows media format the standard media format for windows so during the lesson i spent time getting used to imovie which to me seemed much harder than previously in the apple mac shop. eventually the lesson came to an end and i went home to convert the windows media files to apple mac format which wasn't as hard as i thought it would be.

12th December

filming day. after lunch me and my 2 actors put into motion what we had planned... then decided to change it up some more and this caused for some quick thinking on the spot and improvisation....which worked very well in my opinion.

some things that i didn't thing went to well was the background noise outside as i was stood next to an open window. i didn't think the background noise would pick up as much as it did but i didn't worry to much as it location is a school so it does kind of fit in

another thing is my hand wasn't very steady in some shots as it was uncontrollably shaking which got picked up allot on the video so several takes were required before a usable clip was produced

11th December

i have found my actors ready for tomorrow. i am not going to film today as one of my actors didn't have a double free period like me and the other guy and we had already gone through what was going to happen so it was a rather quiet time until i realised i needed to alter my story board to fit with my massive change of subject so i quickly made the changes.

11th December

i was most surprised and a little worried when we received the deadlines for the preliminary task as i only had 1 week to do it and i hadn't Even gotten a good idea yet so after some hard thinking during the lesson and no luck i started to pace up and down the 6th form common room during break when i saw 2 people having a game a chess. i decided to take this as my main idea.

by lunch time i had worked out pretty much what was going to happen i just needed a time for it to happen and since i didn't have any free periods i decided to film it on Friday and edit it possibly over the weekend on windows movie maker and then do some proper editing on the macs.

8th December

i practiced using the camera some more this lesson with some more clips of people walking in and out of doors and some scenic filming to help me practice keeping a steady hand when filming i also had a few more ideas as to how i could film things such as incorporating some kind of aerial shot from standing on a chair or a low tracking shot by using the adjustable LCD screen the camera had so i could see what i was filming without having to crouch down and walk fast as this would have proved very difficult.

5th December

using the cameras for the first time today was good fun Even if the batteries were charging for half the lesson i was still able to have a look at some of the functions on the cameras. after the batteries were fully charged we filmed some things including some match on action type shots and some panning shots.

1st December

with the exception of a little brain storming and a few ideas jotted down on paper not much happened today. coming up with some really good ideas is a little harder than i had first expected but I'm sure i will come up with something i also discussed with a few friends what they thought would be good and kept a mental note of what they had said as i had no pen/paper at the time.