Film Stuff

So, last week I received a better camera from Professor Doubek. I began to play around with that, learning its specifics and the capabilities of the videocamera. During this time I began to shoot and get footage for my film. The footage that I took was at night - all of the footage was of areas around boston. I just captured some random shots of the city, people, stores, street signs and landmarks, etc. After uploading all of the footage that I had onto the computer, I had to decide which program I would be using to put this short together. Lately I have been trying to learn how to use Final Cut Pro. Some things I understand, but there is so much more that I have to learn and I do not want to spend the last two months learning a program and making a lackluster attempt to put together a short film. So, I have decided to use After Effects. It took a few hours of playing around on the computer (with the footage that uploaded) to figure out how use After Effects again.

After dicussing my project with Professor Jacobs, he suggested that I go see the oscar-nominated short films of the year to see how well these shorts are put together and to analyze how I can consolidate and have valuable and effective information in a short amount of video time. So the next thing I am going to do is go to Kendall Square to watch the film.