When my partner and I started this project, we were really excited for it. It was off to a great start. We had a very powerful poem, and a good idea on how to show it on screen. Things started to go wrong when we were filming.
When we went to check out a camera to film the video, all of the DSLR cameras were taken, so we had to film with a Panasonic. Filming went fairly well, and we got some interesting shots, but we had trouble trying to import the footage. When we put the SD card into the computer, the footage wouldn't show up. To solve the issue, we imported on a PC instead of a Mac, and put the files on Google Drive to access them at school. This ended up being a huge mistake, because the footage came out as .mti files instead of .m4v. To fix this, we have to download a file converter to get the correct type of footage. This appeared to work, but when we were editing, we noticed that the clips were very poor quality, and the converter and trimmed them down to a shorter length than we originally had.
So now were were stuck with a long poem and not enough time or footage to make it look like we had hoped. So with some major sound editing skills, we manged to trim the audio drastically enough that we would have enough footage.
So this project taught me:
- Always get more footage than you think you'll need.
- Don't try to mix media between Macs and PCs.
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