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Coverage

Camera, Action, Edit.

This week we did workshops on the use of camera and coverage, and Adobe Premier Pro.

Camera

We went over how to use the cameras for coverage of a scene and had a trial and error practice session with them so we have a chance to get used to using them when it comes to actually filming our projects. Our first session was to make a short production based on 'The Chair', which could be any interpretation we wanted, it just had to be a scene with someone sitting in a chair. This video is what I came up with as it was simple but had a basic plot to it. We had to focus on coverage; getting different angles in order to give us more options when it came to editing so that we could create more of a dynamic story. It keeps the viewers eye moving around the screen and keeps it interesting, however too many movements or cuts can be confusing and hard to keep up with.

Positives

I was happy with the plot that I came up with for this as it was easy to film and plan out in such a short space of time. I was also happy with the amount of coverage I managed to get for it which gave me a good amount of options when I edited it together.

Negatives

At some points in the video it's clear I could have used just one shot rather than doing different angles. The reason it's edited like this is because the clips weren't long enough to include the parts that I needed to. There is especially a time when Ebony is leaned over her knees and that is shot from the left-hand side, and then when she sits up the shot is from the right-hand side. These shots should have both been from the right-hand side to improve the continuity of the shots and follow the 180° rule. 

Editing

We had a workshop on using Adobe Premier Pro and also Adobe Prelude. I haven't used Prelude before and I found it interesting to learn the basics of how to use it. I found it useful to start off projects with to get rid of any parts of the clips that couldn't be used i.e. camera shake. It wasn't very good for specific editing but I still think it would be useful if you had a large project with a short amount of time to edit with.
We then moved onto Premier Pro and I have used Premier Pro for a few years now so I didn't take a lot from it but did learn about how to check if the footage is the same resolution, which is useful to ensure the project is edited in the right format. In this time I got on with editing the Chair project. It went well and was quite easy to get done quickly because there wasn't too many clips to edit. I cut out the sound of the video because it wasn't important to this video as no speech was used. If I had had more time and resources, I would have put music or sound effects to the video to make it more interesting.
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