The Preliminary film

In our last media lesson we were set the task of making a second practice film which i thought went very well considering that two members of our group were absent last lesson so i had to explain to them exactly what we had to do. The three of us were able to work together and come up with an alternative story line, which went very well.
Between the first and the second practice film i think i have become more familiar with the camera than before because i had a better idea of what i was doing this time. i learned how to match cut which is cutting from say a person walking down the hall and putting his hand on the handle, to then just seeing his had in a close up shot on the door handle. This for me was a very good experience and i'm glad i learned how to do it.
I feel that we more followed the forms and conventions of real films rather than challenge them because of the time we had and the fact that we had to plan a new concept. We each had the chance to film and take different shots. Myself and Tony more assisted Nichole with the camera because we were included in the film. Our lighting was the same because we didnt have enough time and much to work with. We used the college hallway and our media classroom to film and create that suspenceful feeling for the audience.
After the first half of our lesson we then had to start editing the clipse we had taken. This was more of a challenge for each of us considering we had never done match cutting before and we were not as familiar with the apple Macs as we thought.
Although once we had edited the clipse together we then had to convert the video in mp4 format that was enough to fit onto blogger.com, we used final cut pro to convert the video then turn the video into Vimeo so that it could be uploaded onto blogger.com.