Issues During Editing

Issues During Editing

We suffered many difficulties when editing our film. A complicated mix of faulty cameras, along with different audio we all couldn't agree on resulted in a lot of time being spend on correcting the basic editing procedure.

Faulty Cameras

From editing in our AS film to our A2 we have continually experienced problems with the camera technology Barnsley College provide us with. Jodie, a member of our group film work team had taken the camera home and so had charged the camera over night before a full days work ahead the next day. When half way through a shoot in a church graveyard the camera unexpectedly cut out due to a dead battery. Luckily we found a charging point within a church, however we had to sit around whilst valuable filming time and daylight was being lost to a problem that was not of our making.

We also experienced a lot of minor problems with our camera equipment. On multiple occasions our camera turned off unexpectedly in the middle of a shoot and when moving the camera and tripod to a different position for a different shot. This was not only annoying, but also yet another inconvenience to the days shoot.


Self inflicted problems

When uploading footage to the iMac computers to edit, I thought that to speed up the time it took uploading I could press fast forward on the camera. Although this did work, it effecting the durability of each clip. For example the "1 v 1's" shots with me and Kyle in the final confrontation scene where each a split second long and so were completely unusable. We asked Simon for help and he said that we could re-upload the same footage and wait the amount of time that it needed, but when doing this the shots had been arranged to delete when exiting the camera, and so were lost. As a result we had to spend another full lesson filming the same shots.