Diary Entry Week 3

So first thing Monday morning we began filming our music video for That's What I go to school For. It was our first time using equipment such as a tripod and an actual video camera, so it was fun to learn and get used to handling it all. We had technical difficulties with our tripod, as we never had the correct one for our camera, which ended up wasting alot of our valuable shooting time. This is something which we want to avoid during the actual piece of coursework but I am glad we had the chance to learn from our mistakes. We spent the whole 2 hour lesson filming and it was actually good fun.

In our next lesson we uploaded our footage onto the computer and went to begin the editing process, but as this was our first time using iMovie we somehow managed to delete all the footage with me in it - good for me, but bad for the task. This was another opportunity we will have the chance to learn from while creating our actual task. Keyboard shortcuts is something we learnt during the week and we found them a godsend, as it was easy to get confused using the mouse. The keyboard shortcut we used the most was the CTRL & B. This shortcut was used for splitting a clip into two, which was a really important aspect of the editing process, spliting clips and moving, or spliting clips and deleting.

During our final lesson of the week on Friday we was given the chance to finish our music video, and upload it onto YouTube which is what we will be doing with our final product. We was really happy with how it turned out considering it was our first ever attempt at anything like this.