Evaluation and Final Edit

Journey

I was actually pleasantly surprised with how much I enjoyed this assignment. It goes without saying, that it looks a lot difficult than it is. I enjoyed the planning process, and coming up with ideas of how to show a journey and also hearing other peoples different ideas as it shows how people think. 

Me and Tessa went through a series of different and separate ideas which we both elaborated on individually. My ideas were things such as walking to college and showing how I got there and also showing a plant grow into a flower. Eventually, we both decided on an idea which we both liked, which was showing a cheesecake being made. From it being supposedly 'born' to it 'dieing'. I found this increasingly difficult to think of completely different ideas but all still obviously relating to a 'journey'. Some of my ideas were better than others as the plant one would have taken a few weeks to wait for the plant to grow and flower and it would have taken too long. Although the end result would be quite interesting, I would have had to make sure that the camera was in the exact same place every time with the exact same light, given quite a long period of time, I would like to one day do something like this as I think if it is done properly, the end result would look really good. With the walking one, I thought it would be a bit boring and hard to video my feet travelling all the way to college and to make it run smoothly. It would look quite good, but it'd get boring after a bit and the minute would drag out even with music added to it. I still researched and developed my ideas to see how easy they would be to do and why I liked them for future reference. 

I am quite happy with this final piece, as when I was imagining what it was going to look like, I didn't think it would be this smooth or fit as well. I like how well the music fits with it and how it helps the video run, the music distracts you from the video enough to not notice any mistakes or slow-moving bits as it is quite a well known song that people will sing along to in their heads. I was really surprised with how well music helps the video run and makes it a lot more entertaining to watch and using a well known song will leave people singing a lot to it afterwards leaving a memorable mark on them. I enjoyed doing this as the planning, filming and editing process was all quite straight forward as I knew straight away what I wanted to do.  

Paper Edit

Shot Number	In Point	Out Point	Description of Shot
1	00:00:00:00	00:00:04:08	The ingredients
2	00:00:04:09	00:00:07:13	Crushing biscuits
3	00:00:07:13	00:00:08:26	Biscuit crumbs
4	00:00:08:27	00:00:09:11	Butter in bowl
5	00:00:09:12	00:00:11:18	Mixing
6	00:00:11:19	00:00:15:10	Mixing
7	00:00:15:11	00:00:16:22	Mixing
8	00:00:16:23	00:00:18:02	Flour
9	00:00:18:03	00:00:19:14	Cottage cheese
10	00:00:19:15	00:00:21:18	Eggs
11	00:00:21:19	00:00:23:05	Sugar
12	00:00:21:20	00:00:26:00	Putting in bowl
13	00:00:26:01	00:00:29:21	Putting the bowl
14	00:00:29:22	00:00:35:11	Putting in bowl
15	00:00:35:12	00:00:37:19	Putting in eggs
16	00:00:37:20	00:00:39:22	Eggs
17	00:00:39:23	00:00:43:21	Mixing
18	00:00:43:22	00:00:46:14	Mixing
19	00:00:46:15	00:00:48:06	Oven
20	00:00:48:07	00:00:52:03	Pouring
21	00:00:52:04	00:00:53:05	Cake in pan
22	00:00:53:06	00:00:55:04	Oven
23	00:00:55:05	00:00:59:02	Cake out oven
24	00:00:59:03	00:00:59:29	Orange segments
25	00:00:59:30	00:01:01:01	Pearls
26	00:01:01:02	00:01:01:27	Icing sugar
27	00:01:01:28	00:01:02:25	Plate
28	00:01:02:26	00:01:04:07	Cake in wrapper
29	00:01:04:08	00:01:04:22	Cake out wrapper
30	00:01:04:23	00:01:07:09	Pouring on cake
31	00:01:07:10	00:01:08:01	Covered cake
32	00:01:08:02	00:01:11:11	Orange on cake
33	00:01:11:11	00:01:13:28	Orange on cake
34	00:01:13:29	00:01:15:08	Covered cake
35	00:01:15:09	00:01:16:12	Cake
36	00:01:16:13	00:01:18:02	Dog eating cake
37	00:01:19:26	00:01:22:01	Outro

Editing

The editing process 

The editing took approximately 45 minutes to complete using the program Adobe Premier Pro CS6. I did things such as cutting a lot out that wasn't needed or went on for too long by watching each clip individually and selected the length of time and which part I wanted to use,then I would drag it down to the 'timeline'. When we was shooting we gave an extra 5 seconds before and after so that we could get all the footage we wanted. I cut down pretty much every piece I could until I was happy.

Once I had all the cuts lined up and had watched them through several times, I added the song to it. I did this by searching 'If I knew you were coming I'd have baked a cake' into YouTube and listening to several covers of the song until I chose my favourite and downloaded it. I wanted it to start exactly when the video does and fit nicely into the movements of the video, I did this by watching the video several times and fitting it to where I wanted to. I also let the song drag on a bit afterwards until it fades out for effect. I was quite happy with how well everything fit. 

When we had a bit of spare time before we edited, me and Tessa made a logo for our video, we decided to do this because we was up to date on all of our work and knew we could do it quickly. We searched for some ideas on Google and eventually found a picture to trace around on Adobe Illustrator CS6. This was inserted at the beginning of the video and last approximately for about 5 seconds until it fades out. I also inserted some words at the end which lasted about 3-4 seconds. This said 'Made, Lived, Enjoyed' which adds character into the production. 

I enjoyed editing it quite a bit. It was a loss less difficult than I thought as the program itself looks quite daunting when you don't know what you are doing. However I quickly got acquainted with it and understood it quickly and now I am quite confident with using it. 

Choosing a song

Before I had even begun editing, I knew right away that I didn't want the video to just be silent and other than somebody giving instructions or explaining what they were doing, there would be no sound.

After some thought, I decided that having someone give instructions would be far too boring and as it is quite a drawn out process I wanted it to be fun, this meant choosing a song which was relative and that people were familiar with. 

I went through a series of different cake songs in my head, but only one was springing to mind. This song was 'If I knew you were coming I'd have baked a cake' done by Georgia Gibbs. After listening to it several times to familiarise with it I began working out where I wanted certain areas in the song to fall in with the video. I think this song is perfect for the video as it is simple to remember, catchy and uplifts it and makes it really fun. I would not have liked the final production no where near as much as it wasn't for this song to make it more enjoyable to watch. 

The only problems I had really with this was trying to get certain parts of the song to happen at the same time as something that suited the sound. A lot of this happened with luck, and the song would drop in the right places as to when something important is happening. However, a lot of it required a lot of editing so that the tune made sense with the cake being made.