The Final Week.

It's been a hectic one, but we've set ourselves deadlines and kept to them, which I'm really proud of and has worked really well.

The previous post was a document we had to complete about presenting our work. We are going to be presenting it in the Dubbing Theatre, which is like a mini cinema. The final edit is a 3min 30 (ish) short infomercial type video so in this context it works well, because it is almost like an advert you would see at the cinema, except it advertising a product and not a film.

Ideally we would want the presentation to really enhance the video. So for example, if we could show it on a smartphone, a tablet, a laptop and project it onto a screen, and synch them so they all play at the same time, that would be really selling the product. However, I don't think this is possible. Synching all these products would be difficult, if not impossible, and would perhaps lend more focus to the idea of the power of technology, rather than just smartphones.

If we had unlimited money it would be pretty cool to have several smartphones and put them in a grid and play the video off all of them. But again, we are not that rich, haha!

So yeah: after that tutorial we both felt really positive. Raine and Chris seemed positive too which made us feel better, and Raine commented on how much our worked had progressed in such a short amount of tie which was really encouraging.

Our to do list after that day looked a litte like this:

- Finish the animations and add backgrounds

- Finish the soundtrack

- Capture, separate and edit the interview footage

- Download and edit the adverts we showed in the interviews into shorter versions of themselves

- Edit them all together into the final piece!

Which, actually was quite a lot, but we knew we could do it!

Maks spent tuesday making the backgrounds for the animations.

On wednesday I captured and separated the interview footage, and edited the adverts.

Maks finished the soundtrack.

On thursday we met at 10am and stayed in the library until 6pm.

Maks added backgrounds to the animations and put them in FCP.

I edited all the interviews to get the best answers.

We started to put clips together and got about 1minute 30 seconds worth of footage that we really liked.

On Friday, I struggled into uni and we managed to finish the edit, add the soundtrack and juggle it around to fit around the sounds we wanted from some of the footage. So we did it! Maks took the final edit home to burn it to a disc and do some finishing touches to the lighting in some of the shots.

So hopefully I will be well enough to make it in to the crit on Monday but we shall see.