Before filming, I thought that I knew how everything worked and it was all going to be perfect, wrong, there was lots that I didn't know but gained lots of experience with them for a better use in future. First of all, the camcorder. Very effective filming when used correctly. Having an image of the shot you want in your head doesn't mean that it will appear on the camera as soon as you look through it, some adjustments might have to be made. For instance a change in angle which could be difficult depending on the type of tri-pod used. The next thing is sound, just because it it as good sound pick up doesn't mean that it'll only pick out the sound that you want, wind and other background noise could disrupt any other sound involved in that shot. One other thing is also the light pick up. Different light sources can dramatically effect the visual image taken by the camcorder, you have to film in just the right conditions consistently to get an effective, and more importantly, realistic shot. Editing was just as hard or even harder than the film itself. With lots of differet types of transitions to look at whilst choosing the different points to cut from was very difficult. With the collection of shots you have just taken, you must now put the m together into an understandable order. Finding the right place to cut the film is difficult, especially for match-on-action shots, as the two shots have to cut when the character / object is in exactly the same place and position. This often means going through the shot frame by frame, just to find that one little shot that makes for an even and smooth transition between shots, but it's all worth while at the end. Adding in title and credits (which I will be talking about later) was also difficult. Putting them in the right place as not to obscure the shot and yet being visible is not easy. Also, putting them inbetween shots, like I did with my piece, was difficult, as the filmed shots still had to make sense, cutting it so that time had moved too far along or not far enough would have made for a very un-tidy film. Lighting also comes into this equation, sometimes the scene that has been shot may be darker than all of the other shots, so they need to be edited to fit in with the others. With my media piece, for scenes like that, I lightened them so that they looked they were filmed at the same time of day all of the other scenes. Titles were easier to do than everything else, but a lot of work was still needed to make them work. For this genre of film, a romance, a light writing was needed, possibly looking like it was hand written. It wouldn't look right if the titles where in jaggedy slash mark type letters. The most important aspect I have left till last. The thing that brings verything together and gives the film 'body'. The sound track ! You need something that fits the film, something that compliments the images, can create more images in your head and just brings evrerything togther to give it that final edge that makes it what it is. Many songs / music tracks that will go with it just add an edge that shows that it's a romance or what ever genre of film that it is, but soemtimes you find a song that almost embodies the film, a song that seems as if it was almost written for that film. This is of course a very rare situation, but in those cases it is very good to find that you've got a song that is perfect for the film.
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