Skills Audit

Through out the sessions there are many skills that I have learnt and will help me when it comes to do the filming and editing of our opening scene of EXHIBIT A. We have learnt to use many softwares such as Final Cut Pro, Sound Track Pro also sites such as Blogger and Prezi.
Whilst editing the clips of Arlington Road in FINAL CUT PRO I have learnt how to

• Import files into FCP and arrange them together
• Extend and cut clips
• Add stylized texts in different sizes and fonts also arranging them into in places to make a title sequence
• Exporting the video on to Quick Time Movie as well as Soundtrack Pro
• Adding foley sounds which we recorded and importing them into the sequence

When using SOUNDTRACK I have learnt it is to add non diegetic sounds into the video. We have used this when we were doing the Arlignton Road re-make and our prelim video of Room 333.  I have learnt how to

• Find non diegetic sounds/instruments under catergorized folders
• Drag the sounds across to the timeline and positioning them where its best suited
• Importing them back onto FCP where we dont have a mixture of sounds

Also during the process we have learnt how to blog on blogger and to keep it intresting. Blogs that are plain and dont have any visuals such as pictures and videos seem quite tedious thats why we post various of things such as videos, story boards presentations etc. We also learnt how to use PREZI and found out that it is much more appealing than using Microsoft Powerpoint which isnt that bad either.

Whilst doing the prelim video of Room 333 I got a general idea of how to match cut, pan and do the over the shoulder shot. Altough our match cut wasnt perfect we got the drift of it however after many takes we manged to get the panning shot from the fan to Baris perfect.