The Blog of a Young Filmmaker

For this project, I worked with the DP/editor to edit the Master Shot Scene. Due to what I accomplished in high school, I have a lot of experience using Adobe Premiere Pro. When editing the Master Shot Scene, I helped the DP/editor use Premiere Pro and I showed her a large portion of the skills I have acquired over the years. I love to edit, and I enjoyed helping the DP/editor with the assignment. When we first started, we realized we had to reshoot a majority of the footage due to improper lighting and lack of shot composition. After we reshot the scene with better lighting, the DP/editor and I were able to edit the scene. Since I was in charge of sound for this project, I picked the music used in addition to working with the audio. This experience was the most fun for me, and I realized that I much prefer the stages of post-production over pre-production. Still, this was a fun project and I enjoyed working with my teammates very much on this assignment.

In order to make our Master Shot project successful, my team and I had to sit down and coordinate and organize the previsualization materials. The materials included a marked shooting script, an overhead diagram, shot list, budget, and storyboard. Together we went over the shot list and what we were going to do the day of filming. Additionally, we made sure that we requested a place on campus to film. Planning out everything before shooting is helpful in the same way making an outline before writing an essay is helpful. When it comes time to shoot, everyone will know what we are doing and what we have to accomplish in the given time. The hardest part of the previsualization process was making the shot list because we had to walk through what the shots will look like and where everything and everyone will be without cameras or actors, but other than that, the process ran smoothly.

For the Master Shot assignment, I have been given the task of dealing with sound. I do not have a lot of experience with operating sound equipment outside a boom mic and shotgun mic, so using the h4n will be interesting and I am excited to learn how to use it. However, when it comes time to edit, I know how to manipulate audio levels and add music into videos in such a way that it does not overpower the dialogue. During filming, I will make sure that all of the audio is kept within the proper levels and that none of the sound equipment is seen in the shot. During post, I do not know if we will decide to have non-diegetic music, but if we do, I will suggest something low and dramatic to make the scene more dramatic than it actually is.