Fish Film Editing the 30 kg halibut

The first issue in the editing that i realised i would have was keeping the film to 5 minutes. As i had 45 minutes of footage most of which was important to the filleting as there weren't any retakes or anything. I went throught the editing and didnt have any major problems other than the one already stated. I managed to get it down to 7 minutes 30 and as I said I would do a slightly longer version also I tried to render the video and then export it. At this point problems really started occuring!!

Every time I treid to render it I would leave it and go and do something else but everytime I came back and treid to do anything my computer crashed. After about 2 - 3 hours i finally managed to get it all rendered without it crashing and so then treid to export it as a video and then the problems continued! The first time it exported again the computer crashed after having exported it, but the exported file did not work, and so i treid again. This time my Adobe Media Encoder stoped working, I tried to do this multiple times but it failed and so i called Adobes customer support!

Fish Film Pracice Edits

Having got all the footage I then sat down and began editing. The skate wing came first and I wasn’t very happy with it really, as he did 6 skate wings and these were the first things shot, the camera was very wobbly I didn’t know exactly what he was doing next (I had asked him to tell me) and I was slightly nervous. There also was no real cut points as if I tried to take a shot from one skate wing and join it to another the fish would be in a completely different place in the next shot. I was much happier with the wild salmon and the halibut though as we took much more time over these and I made sure I knew what he was going to be doing next. I feel they flow nicely and they do what they are meant to as I think I could fillet a fish now! Here are the practice edits:

Debs Feedback 2

I got feedback from debs again in the seminar this week, which was the following:

• Cut back daves first lines so he almost interupts the mum in the argument.
• Take out the "static" shots during the first scene.
• Overlay sounds during the argument such as a radio (which i still hadnt done but planned to)
• Get more shots for the last shot in scene 1, such as a few differnt shots of when she lights the cigarette.
• When the boys leave the house the shot is too blue so change the colour (more red)
• Take out the first person going to pickpocket the mum
• Leve mum on longer right after the boys pickpocket her
• Does the zoom out at the graveyard from the mum work?

Editing Issues

The first problems came the other day with editing which was a pretty major issue. My Premier Pro stopped working the other day and as it is CS4 i can not work on my saved files at uni. It kept cumming up with an error message and wouldn't let me reinstall it. A few days later after calling Adobe's technical support a few times and being on hold for over an hour i managed to get it fixed and so moved on!

Editing 2

I have been working on cutting down the 10 minute film and got it to 6 minutes 45. I have noticed that i am missing some key shots in it though and have organised for my actors to come back down for a re-shoot. Here is the latest edit:

Again I didn't have any problems whilst editing and am quite happy with how the edits are coming along. I haven't tweaked with the audio or put music to it yet as until i have got the video to 6 minutes i don't know what will be where.

I took this video into Uni and showed it to Debs in a seminar and got the following feedback:

• Do i need music in the first scene, or could i just use sounds to build atmosphere
• The shot of the boys leaving home is too long
• After the argument use less sound to show the tension
• Change the practice pickpocket scene to make them a bit more interesting
• Hold the first shot of the mum at the graveyard for longer
• Fade in some music as the boys go to the graveyard
• Take out a second when the boys walk away from the drinks fridge in the shop
• Show more excitment when the boys whin the lottery
• Don't zoom in on the AA Meeting peice of paper when the boys come home