Seminar 2

Today's seminar was centred around expanding our knowledge and practice on Media Composer through a small practical exercise of making a 30 second long montage compilation of image stills from various movies that past students that studied on this course were involved in production in some way or another. We were allowed and advised to use music over the top of this montage to make it more engaging to the audience, which would be 17 year old's thinking of studying FMP at Hallam on an upcoming open day. After we were told this information we just had to crack on, using the skills we had learnt on Media Composer previously, and a bit of intuition to create a film that could be shown to promote Hallam to outsiders.

Imported files to begin assembly

After importing all the images we wanted and the sound, we began deciding which are the most recognisable posters which would determine what order they would go in.

Final 1st Assembly

After the first assembly we discussed adding text to the film to let the audience know what it was about and why they were watching this seemingly random montage of movie posters.

Adding text using Title Tool Application

First draft of finished Title/text

After adding the text in we trimmed it and added a fade in transition to make it a smoother introduction to the film.

Using trim mode to shorted title

Using the quick transition tool for fade in

After completing this we had done the main rough cut for our montage and we started refining it with the addition of some effects we had been taught as well as cutting down some of the images.

Using the rotation effect with keyframes

Using colour effect with keyframes

Picture in picture effect with keyframing

Final outcome of picture in picture effect

The final sequence looked like this

Final Assembly

Although we know the film isn't perfect, we are happy with the way we have approached the brief in the time we have been given and we worked after the seminar to complete it to what it is above. This is a challenging bit of editing as it is such a simple/broad task to do you have to really try to approach it in a unique and innovative manner which we have attempted to do, whilst as keeping in mind the target audience and overall purpose of the film.