When looking at the overall success of this project there are many factors to take into consideration. First of all the planning, planning is a big part of any design project whether it be static, animation or movie. It is your initial ideas and how you go about continuing and what kind of ideas you have; within this there are also many things to take into account such as which idea is best, and most importantly why? Choosing the right idea for me was based on a number of things, for starters I wanted to choose something that was too drastic or too extreme that I would only have a few chances at recording it as this would limit me with the number of takes I could film and also camera angles. So I chose the idea of 'How to make a cup of tea' and aside from the fact that I love tea I also thought that it was an ordinary event however had a lot of room to make it entertaining such as specifically focusing on camera angles and also a large range to add interesting sound effects.
The next thing to think about is the actual production of the film, this in total took me about a day going through various scenes multiple times in order to make sure I had an in focus shot and also the right angle to portrait exactly what I wanted too this was very important for me as I feel like if your basic raw movie clips aren't much good then you can't really save it with post production editing, this and other reasons such as maintaining a constant source of light in each scene are why it took me a day to film.
The next step to work on is the editing of the clips together, this is most important factor of the whole assignment this is the part which allows you to manually determine the pace of the clips into the way you want too I felt that this process in the making of the film went really well for me, I loosely trimmed the clips down so the whole thing was about 23 seconds and then edited them together in a way that showed the main action of that scene, once I did that for each scene I came in just under 20 seconds so this enabled me to extend a few clips that I felt would benefit from a few extra milliseconds to help the viewer understand what was going on.
Next up was the sound effects, this for me was the most fun out of all of the parts of the making process it enabled you to make the limits of your imagination your boundaries which conjured some interesting scenes with humorous sound effects which everyone seemed to like as it gave it a more entertaining edge. On the making process the satisfying part adding the sound effects were aligning the sound with the action precisely to make a sightly believable clip, this was done by looking at the sound waves and lining it up with the movement on the movie by using the playhead.
Finally colour correction was the next step, this for me was a great way to give your movie that finishing touch, you simple adjust the saturation or mid/blacks/whites of the selected clip so it matched the rest, this was useful as a few of my clips were slightly darker as time went on in the day the light in the kitchen dimmed this made for a really nice finished piece.
In conclusion I think that this assignment was a lot of fun to produce and edit, straight from the moment it was set I had ideas flying around my head and found it difficult to pin point one down on paper however once I had done that I was ready to start and really enjoyed making it. In terms of success I think it went equally as well the film was ironically, short, sharp and shocking. The short time span of 20 seconds gave it the short aspect and he rapid scene changes gave it a sharp edge keeping it upbeat and entertaining on such an ordinary subject as "How to make a cup of tea" which I guess is one of the reasons I set for myself in the first place as a challenge. Finally the shocking aspect coming from the loud, and ill fitting sound effects, I'm glad I've finished the project now and I am looking forward to the next!
