Create your video sequence

1. Create your video sequence

2. Production Testing Plan

3. Record footage in line with the planned pre-production

4. Importing and checking footage To import my footage at the start I made a new project in final cut so that I new where all my work was saving to. Afterwards I created a new event so that I had a place where I could upload all my footage to and I knew where everything was. By making a new project and event it ensured that that I didn’t get my work up with any other users on Final Cut. I used Final Cut Pro’s ‘KeyWord’ feature to clearly label my work once I had imported my footage into the media library. Using the KeyWord feature helped me to organise my imports so that they didn’tget lost or mixed up with any other footage I had already uploaded. I then split the groups into 7 and named them based on what I had most of. I used: Good shot, bad shot, poor quality sound, good quality sound, close ups, long shots and tracking shots. By using these key words and then putting the footage that corresponds to the title (e.g. I’d put all the close up shots in the ‘close up’ folder etc) I can quickly find a shot that I might want to find when editing instead of having to search through lots of random footage.

5. Transitions and titles I used Final Cuts Titles feature to use for my opening title ‘delivery boy’. I used the font ‘American Type’ with a font size or 143.0, regular. I set the effect to give the impression that the words were being typed on the screen and synced it so they appeared in line with the background music. The titles feature allows you to drag the effect onto any piece of footage and then using the title editor, you can edit font, size and colour. However, I stuck to a basic font with a white to correspond to my ‘comedy’ genre. Next I added a transition after my intro so that it smoothly entered the next scene. I used fade to black so the shot nicely dissolved and then slowly faded into the next piece of footage on the timeline. Final Cut has a range of transitions you can use but for I a professional feel I used the fade to back which worked best within the film. To put the transition onto my footage, I just simply dragged and dropped it between the to pieces of footage I wanted the transition to happen between. From there you can easily edit the length of the transition but just dragging the grey box.

6. Synchronising music When I imported my time lapse footage into Final Cut I had to edit the shot by speeding it up to get the desired effect. However, before I edited the footage I detached the audio from the shot so that the audio was not effected but this meant I had to resize the audio to correspond with the new edit I made. To achieve this, I simply resized the audio so that it started and finished at my new edit. Although the footage was sped up the audio stayed the same giving it a nice realistic atmosphere which is the effect I as looking for.I also faded out the audio at that the end so that it didn’t abruptly stop and make a ‘pop’ sound. By hovering the audio at the bottom right and dragging the small arrow to the left, you can create a fade which means the audio’s volume slowly cuts out rather than straight away. You can tell the audio has a fade out if you see a shaded arch at the end of the event. Also, I added a back tracking to the video to play in the background to give the film a happy bouncy mood which ties in well with my comedy theme. As my film has no dialogue, this backing track needed to be at a good level so that it was dominant through out. To raise the volume of the audio event I simply dragged the black line up that runs through the even, this then raises the decibels which then overall raises the volume.

8. References • 1Conor Crosby. (2013). Final Cut Pro Trim Tool. Available: http://finalcutbasix.com/2013/04/16/fcpx-trim-tool/. Last accessed 18th Dec 2013.