Thursday, 22 January 2009

Editing the film

I have begun editing my film in iMovie. I have had to add my soundtrack, that we did the dance to, onto the film as it is very hard to here it from the original recording from the noise of the water and background noise. There is a section in the middle where we all had to stop dancing and come out from under the water as we were so cold we all got brain freeze and froze, so I have had to cut this out. Because I have cut a section of the dance out, I have had to cut a section of the music out also, otherwise the music would not fit to the choreography recorded. It was very complicated trying to match up the exact second of music to the dance and it took a lot of time, but I eventually got there.
I now need to do my last bit of filming, in the dance studio, then I will be able to start editing my whole film together.

Successful Attempt :)

After our failed attempt of filming late last year we agreed with the Fire Service to go back another day and film it then. So we did. It was such a good experience, but so cold! The Firemen all came out to help and they were really helpful. They set up one hose and the agreed Water Disperser. There was a lot of water but they offered to get out another hose for us so we took them up on it and we had more water!
We underestimated how cold the water would actually be, and half way through our dance we all had to stop as we all got brain freeze and could not remember the dance! I was hoping to film the dance three times, so that I had enough footage from all different angles, but, it was just too cold to even do the full dance once. So this means I will have to alter my original plan and cut my final version and make it slightly shorter. This is not a huge set back and it will not change my final version too much.
The Firemen were all very helpful and nothing was too much for them to do, even the policemen came out to watch!