Saturday, 23 October 2010

Editing: The Corrupted Tape

We started uploading the green screen footage last week, but because the lesson finished and none of us had free lessons, we had to cancel it. The other day we uploaded the rest of it and found that in the time between 'now' and the last upload, the tape became corrupted (most likely by being near a mobile phone). However, what we had uploaded was the band together and the all important footage of the drummer Ben (the reason why we needed green screen in the first place).

Although incredibly frustrating this is, we immediately went to find Ian to organise another green screen filming session (which would be done quicker as we have already done it once and know who to set up). But even more frustratingly, the Media technician Ian has been told he cannot use the school's equipment after school anymore, and therefore we would not be able to. I thought about filming in our free lessons, but our band members are in year 10 and therefore have no free lessons.

Thinking through many solutions as possible, we came up with the quickest solution, and that was to film on location (Battery Point) during half term (Jemma won't be joining us as she is in Egypt). The reason why this is the most efficient solution, is because the only clips wiped was Dylan's (lead singer) and Alex's (guitarist) solo-shots. Neither of them require organised transportation for their instruments like a drum does, so it will be much easier than working our way around green screen again.

No comments:

Post a Comment