Difficulties

DIFFICULIES AND PROBLEMS

How I overcame them:

1. Using final cut pro, and getting the hang of things again, so that I would not keep having to ask a teacher for help every minute - evenchally I managed quite well using it, now I feel like a pro using it.
2. Finding music from creative commons to use in our film - it was difficult to chose a perfect soundtrack to match our footage but we ended up finding some really good ones that I really liked.
3. Adding video effects - soemtimes it was very fustrating to put a video effect on as it was hard to choose which would look better and not like an animation film. We still wanted it too look sophisicated and smooth, we ended up using "cross dissolve" to quicken Jakir's scene up which I found that it looks good
4. Having different Ideas to the rest of my group - I felt like I may have been a bit bossy and controlling towards my group only because I am a perfectionist and I wanted the end result something to be proud of even if it not the bestest one ever. But I did encounter everyones ideas and what they would like and try out everyones ideas as theirs could be better than mine or they could improve mine more, but my group love me really.
5. Adjusting the sound to be in-time with what scene we wanted to show - it was quite finger fidley but I got there in the end. Making it in sync with the voiceover.
6. Adding the soundtracks and adjusting the volumes - it was time consuming adjusting the volumes and such, but I found it easy using the "chopping" or "cropping" tool which helped me shorten the soundtracks faster and place it where I wanted it. Also I used the same tool too chop the beginning and ending of the soundtrack to make a gradual sound. (gets lower and higher and blends in with the other soundtracks) smooth. Also using that red line to make the sound louder or lower.
7. Trying to do the split screens - this took alot of my time. As I was showing how to do the split screen; I did it for my group. The only problem I found with it was postitioning it in the right place. So me and Nadia became creative and I used her hands on the screen where I did the first split screen to place the second split screen in the same spot. Each characters split screen had to be the same length otherwise one character will come off the screen and it wouldn't be in time with the others. But I managed to get them near the same time
8.  Taking out scenes that we would have liked to have kept and used - we found that we had gone over the limit which was 2 minutes therefore we had to go back and remove scenes. Some   jumpcuts became weird as we did this. So this was even more time consuming as we had to cut quite alot off to make sure we didn't go over our time. But if we did go over 2 minutes by couple of seconds it was ok. Atleast the film didn't have bits which could bore the audience.